Introduction

Welcome to the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) technical docs. 

About

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) is a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) OpenTelemetry project. OpenTelemetry (OTel) provides open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect logs, metrics, and traces.

With ADOT, you can instrument your applications once and send correlated logs, metrics, and traces to one or more observability backends such as Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Amazon Open Search, any OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) compliant backend, as well as Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK):

The ADOT collector

Further, you can use auto-instrumentation to generate traces without changing your code. ADOT also collects metadata from your AWS resources and managed services, so you can correlate application performance data with underlying infrastructure data, reducing the mean time to problem resolution.

Use ADOT to instrument your applications running on AWS App Runner, AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) on EC2, and AWS Fargate, as well as in your on-premises datacenter.

Features

• Instrument your applications once and send correlated logs, metrics, and traces to one or more observability backends and use auto-instrumentation for traces without changing your code.
• Collect metadata from your AWS resources and managed services, so you can correlate application performance data with underlying infrastructure data, reducing the mean time to problem resolution.
• Enables you to observe your applications running on AWS App Runner, AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) on EC2, and AWS Fargate, as well as in hybrid cloud and on-prem settings.