‫So now let's talk about AWS distro for Opentelemetry.
‫So Opentelemetry is a project and AWS has created a distribution of that project that is supported and
‫they call it secure and production ready.
‫So what is Opentelemetry?
‫Well, Opentelemetry is a way to get a single set of APIs, library agents and collector services to
‫collect distributed traces and metrics for your applications.
‫It can also help you collect metadata from your AWS, resources and services.
‫The idea is that it's very similar to x ray, but it's open source.
‫And so you have agents and these agents can be auto instrumented to collect traces without you even
‫changing your code, which looks very similar to x ray.
‫And on top of it, thanks to this collection, that can happen at scale within your account and your
‫applications, all these traces and these metrics can be sent to multiple AWS services as well as partner
‫solutions.
‫So for example, we have traces that can be sent into the x ray service.
‫We have metrics that can be sent into cloudwatch or traces and metrics that can be sent into Prometheus.
‫The idea is that you're going to instrument your applications that are running on AWS, for example,
‫on EC2, on X, on ECS, Fargate or Lambda, or it could be applications that are running on premises.
‫You're going to then use the OPENTELEMETRY standard to send these traces and metrics to either such
‫as x ray or partner services such as Datadog and so on.
‫And so the difference between Opentelemetry and x ray is that you may want to migrate from x ray to
‫using the AWS distro for Opentelemetry If you want to standardize with open source APIs because you
‫want everything to be using telemetry, or you may want to send the traces data to multiple destinations
‫simultaneously, which is something that Opentelemetry supports.
‫So to summarize, we have the distro for Opentelemetry where we collect traces and then the request
‫from each app gets passed through.
‫Then we can collect metrics again for each map that has it, and then we can also collect thanks to
‫the distro.
‫We can collect contextual data about your resources and this can be sent to x ray cloudwatch Amazon
‫managed service for Prometheus as well as any partner monitoring solutions that is supported by Opentelemetry.
‫So that's it.
‫Just a high level overview, but you know what it is.
‫If you see this at the exam, usually it's only it can only be one very high level question.
‫So I hope you liked it and I will see you in the next lecture.