Document updated on Aug 18, 2026

AWS X-Ray Telemetry Integration

AWS X-Ray is a service offered by Amazon that provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components.

The OpenTelemetry integration allows you export data to AWS X-Ray. For that, the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector (ADOT Collector) is an AWS supported version of the upstream OpenTelemetry Collector and is distributed by Amazon. It enables users to send telemetry data to AWS CloudWatch Metrics, Traces, and Logs backends as well as the other supported backends.

Once you have configured it, add it to the OpenTelemetry configuration block