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AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry sends metrics and traces to Datadog

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Date Published
Author
Michael Gerstenhaber
Word Count
512
Company Posts That Month
18
Language
English
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-
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No
Summary

Datadog has a long-standing commitment to open standards, enabling customers to collect data using tools and libraries that fit best into their workflows. The company's source code for the Datadog Agent is open source and available on GitHub, and it is proud of its ongoing partnership with the OpenTelemetry project. AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry extends the upstream CNCF OpenTelemetry project by collecting metadata from AWS resources, as well as trace data from AWS SDK and AWS X-Ray. This distribution has been carefully optimized, secured, and tested by AWS to ensure that it doesn't degrade the performance or stability of systems. Customers can easily configure AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry to send metrics and traces to Datadog by adding a `datadog` exporter to their OpenTelemetry configuration YAML file along with their Datadog API key. The partnership between Datadog and AWS aims to improve monitoring workflows, regardless of architectures, and break down barriers to data portability.

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OpenTelemetry 14 124 17 6 +300%
Observability 2 681 137 34 +47%
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