# Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Java
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With the Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Java, 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 ADOT 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. ADOT Java includes auto-instrumentation support, enabling your application to send traces without code changes.

To get started, see the [Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Java documentation](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/getting-started/java-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).