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2 days agoAmazon CloudWatch Introduces OpenTelemetry Metrics Support in Preview
AWS introduces OpenTelemetry metrics support in CloudWatch, enabling direct metric sending and analysis using PromQL.
The SDK provides observability support for Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) projects on Android, iOS, and JavaScript via a single standardized API, giving the cloud-native community a vendor-neutral Kotlin implementation.
Observability in serverless environments can be challenging, but AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) simplifies this by providing a standardized, vendor-neutral way to collect and export telemetry. ADOT allows you to leverage industry-standard OpenTelemetry APIs to instrument your applications without being locked into a single observability backend. The challenge with containerized Lambdas is that they do not support standard Lambda Layers. Since ADOT is typically deployed as a layer for Lambda functions, we need an alternative way to get the telemetry agent into our execution environment.
"Ampere gave us a leg up to understand how to best instrument the code, and run it in that setup," remarked Antoine Toulmé, who maintains the OpenTelemetry Collector project while serving as a senior engineering manager at Splunk.