AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry v0.34.0

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry v0.34.0



AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Collector v0.34.0 is now available. You can download the latest ADOT Collector image from the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Public Gallery.



Upstream changelog

New Components

The following components are now included in the ADOT Collector behind a feature gate. To enable the functionality behind the feature gate, you can pass the --feature-gates=+adot.receiver.filelog,+adot.exporter.awscloudwatchlogs,+adot.extension.file_storage in the command line parameter.

FileLog Receiver - See the FileLog Receiver documentation for the usage.

AWS CloudWatch Logs Exporter - Please refer to CloudWatch Logs Exporter documentation for usage

File Storage Extension - See the storage extension documentation to see how it can be used in your configurations.

Important: ADOT Collector v0.34.0 Breaking Change

Users of the statsd receiver, please refer to GitHub Issue - Warning: StatsD Receiver → EMF Exporter Metric Pipeline Breaking Change for information on an upcoming breaking change.

** Important: ADOT Collector v0.35.0 Breaking Change

Users of the awscontainerinsightreceiver, please refer to the GitHub Issue - Warning: Container Image Default User Change → Important consideration for AWSContainerInsightReceiver for more information on an upcoming breaking change.

Detailed release notes are available via - GitHub. All code changes are upstream in the respective OpenTelemetry project components.

Download

Detailed technical documentation is available on the ADOT developer site, and you can download the distribution from GitHub. You can also download the latest ADOT Collector image from the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Public Gallery.

To learn more about how to use AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) to collect data for your observability solution, check out the hands-on AWS Observability workshop. Please file an issue if you have any questions about the distribution, features, or its components.

We also welcome you to participate in the OpenTelemetry project. The project was approved for incubation status in August 2021 by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Technical Oversight Committee (CNCF TOC). Learn more about AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry on the AWS Open Source Blog, where we announced the distribution’s general availability for tracing in September 2021 and the distribution's general availability for metrics in May 2022.