AWS OpenTelemetry

November 27, 2025 1 min read By Martin Mueller

Recently AWS announced the end of support for X-Ray SDK and daemon. So they are recommending

Before February 25th, 2027 we recommend that you migrate to OpenTelemetry solutions for instrumenting your application and sending traces to AWS X-Ray

source: AWS X-Ray SDK and daemon end of support

AWS OpenTelemetry is a open source project that provides a set of tools to instrument, collect, and export telemetry data. It is a way to collect telemetry data from your applications and services and send it to a telemetry backend.

  • Sending OpenTelemetry traces, metrics and logs from your Lambda and ECS workloads to AWS X-Ray

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