Getting Started with the OpenTelemetry Go SDK on Traces and Metrics Instrumentation

There is no ADOT SDK for Go. Use the upstream OpenTelemetry Go SDK and send traces to the CloudWatch OTLP endpoint. The X-Ray ID generator is no longer required; X-Ray accepts W3C trace IDs.

Use these resources instead

• Migrate to OpenTelemetry Go (X-Ray Developer Guide)
• OpenTelemetry Go getting started
• Sending OpenTelemetry data to CloudWatch OTLP endpoints
• CloudWatch OTLP endpoints reference