Specifying the Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry sidecar for Amazon X-Ray integration in your task definition

The Amazon ECS console simplifies creating the Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry sidecar container by using the Use trace collection option. For more information, see Creating an Amazon ECS task definition using the console.

If you're not using the Amazon ECS console, you can add the Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry sidecar container to your task definition. The following task definition snippet shows the container definition for adding the Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry sidecar for Amazon X-Ray integration.

{
	"family": "otel-using-xray",
	"taskRoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/AmazonECS_OpenTelemetryXrayRole",
	"executionRoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/ecsTaskExecutionRole",
	"containerDefinitions": [{
			"name": "aws-otel-emitter",
			"image": "application-image",
			"logConfiguration": {
				"logDriver": "awslogs",
				"options": {
					"awslogs-create-group": "true",
					"awslogs-group": "/ecs/aws-otel-emitter",
					"awslogs-region": "us-east-1",
					"awslogs-stream-prefix": "ecs"
				}
			},
			"dependsOn": [{
				"containerName": "aws-otel-collector",
				"condition": "START"
			}]
		},
		{
			"name": "aws-otel-collector",
			"image": "public.ecr.aws/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector:v0.30.0",
			"essential": true,
			"command": [
				"--config=/etc/ecs/otel-instance-metrics-config.yaml"
			],
			"logConfiguration": {
				"logDriver": "awslogs",
				"options": {
					"awslogs-create-group": "True",
					"awslogs-group": "/ecs/ecs-aws-otel-sidecar-collector",
					"awslogs-region": "us-east-1",
					"awslogs-stream-prefix": "ecs"
				}
			}
		}
	],
	"networkMode": "awsvpc",
	"requiresCompatibilities": [
		"FARGATE"
	],
	"cpu": "1024",
	"memory": "3072"
}