Description

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry is a secure, production-ready distribution of the OpenTelemetry project, providing open-source APIs, libraries, and agents for collecting distributed traces and metrics.

Features

• Fully compatible with OpenTelemetry standard
• Pre-configured for AWS services integration
• Automatic instrumentation for popular frameworks and libraries
• Support for multiple programming languages
• Built-in security features and encryption

Limitations

• Limited to OpenTelemetry-supported data formats
• Requires configuration for non-AWS backends
• Performance overhead in highly distributed systems
• Learning curve for teams new to observability concepts

Use Cases

• Microservices monitoring: Implement distributed tracing across complex microservices architectures to identify performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues.
• Cloud migration observability: Maintain consistent observability during cloud migration by using AWS Distro to collect and analyze telemetry data from both on-premises and cloud environments.
• Multi-cloud application insights: Deploy AWS Distro across multiple cloud providers to gain unified visibility into application performance and behavior, enabling effective management of hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.