Getting Started with the JavaScript SDK on Traces and Metrics Instrumentation

The AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) JavaScript refers to some components developed to complement the upstream OpenTelemetry (OTel) JavaScript SDK and OTel JavaScript Auto-Instrumentation for Node.js. Below are links to guides that go over how to use ADOT JavaScript to send traces, metrics, and logs to AWS, including AWS X-Ray, Amazon CloudWatch (directly to the CloudWatch OTLP endpoints or through the CloudWatch agent), and CloudWatch Application Signals.

Getting Started

• Auto Instrumentation for Traces and Metrics with JavaScript SDK
• Migrating from the X-Ray SDK to OpenTelemetry Node.js (manual instrumentation)
• Exporting to CloudWatch OTLP endpoints with ADOT SDKs

Sample Code with JavaScript SDK

• Simple Express.js Server Sample Application using ADOT JavaScript Auto-Instrumentation
• ADOT Sample Code with JavaScript SDK