Instrument your application with OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry provides a wide range of ready to use componentry to get you started with distributed tracing. We recommend auto-instrumentation if you prefer not to change application code and are using the following language frameworks:
See the following guides to install and configure OpenTelemetry tracing for AWS Lambda functions:
- AWS Lambda - Java function instrumentation
- AWS Lambda - NodeJS function instrumentation
- AWS Lambda - Python function instrumentation
For other languages or in situations where fine-grain instrumentation or modification of telemetry data is required we recommend manual code instrumentation with the use of OpenTelemetry tracers: