AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry EKS add-on v0.88.0

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) EKS Add-on v0.88.0 is now available.

Breaking Change

This v0.88.0 of the ADOT EKS Add-on contains a breaking change to the advanced configuration. Please read the EKS Add-on advanced configuration (>=v0.88.0) to learn about the new configurable values and the migration guide to figure out how to migrate from a pre v0.88.0-eksbuild.1 advanced configuration to the new schema.

Release Highlights

• ADOT Collector v0.35.0
• ADOT autoinstrumentation java v1.31.0
• Addition of the Container Logs preconfigured custom resource that uses the filelog receiver to collect Kubernetes pod logs and exports them to Amazon CloudWatch using the awscloudwatchlogs exporter.

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

Getting Started

To learn more about the EKS Add-on please visit the docs on the ADOT Developer Site or the official AWS Docs

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.