# Working with Go
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 There are two ways to instrument your Go application to send traces to X-Ray: 
+ [Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Go](xray-go-opentel-sdk.md) – An Amazon distribution that provides a set of open source libraries for sending correlated metrics and traces to multiple Amazon monitoring solutions including Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon X-Ray, and Amazon OpenSearch Service, via the [Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/getting-started/collector).
+ [Amazon X-Ray SDK for Go](xray-sdk-go.md) – A set of libraries for generating and sending traces to X-Ray via the [X-Ray daemon](xray-daemon.md).

 For more information, see [Choosing between the Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry and X-Ray SDKs](xray-instrumenting-your-app.md#xray-instrumenting-choosing).