# Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Go
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**Note**  
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](xray-sdk-daemon-timeline.md). We recommend to migrate to OpenTelemetry. For more information on migrating to OpenTelemetry, see [Migrating from X-Ray instrumentation to OpenTelemetry instrumentation ](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-migration.html).

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](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/getting-started/go-sdk).

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](https://aws-otel.github.io/) or the [Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Documentation](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/introduction).

For more information about language support and usage, see [Amazon Observability on GitHub](https://github.com/aws-observability).