Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Go - Amazon X-Ray
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Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Go

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X-Ray SDK/Daemon Maintenance Notice – On February 25th, 2026, the Amazon X-Ray SDKs/Daemon will enter maintenance mode, where Amazon will limit X-Ray SDK and Daemon releases to address security issues only. For more information on the support timeline, see X-Ray SDK and Daemon Support timeline. We recommend to migrate to OpenTelemetry. For more information on migrating to OpenTelemetry, see Migrating from X-Ray instrumentation to OpenTelemetry instrumentation .

With the Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Go, you can instrument your applications once and send correlated metrics and traces to multiple Amazon monitoring solutions including Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon X-Ray, and Amazon OpenSearch Service. Using X-Ray with Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry requires two components: an OpenTelemetry SDK enabled for use with X-Ray, and the Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector enabled for use with X-Ray.

To get started, see the Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Go documentation.

For more information about using the Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry with Amazon X-Ray and other Amazon Web Services services, see Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry or the Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Documentation.

For more information about language support and usage, see Amazon Observability on GitHub.