AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Go - AWS X-Ray

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Go

Note

X-Ray SDK/Daemon Maintenance Notice – On February 25th, 2026, the AWS X-Ray SDKs/Daemon will enter maintenance mode, where AWS will limit X-Ray SDK and Daemon releases to address security issues only. For more information on the support timeline, see X-Ray SDK and Daemon Support timeline. We recommend to migrate to OpenTelemetry. For more information on migrating to OpenTelemetry, see Migrating from X-Ray instrumentation to OpenTelemetry instrumentation .

With the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Go, you can instrument your applications once and send correlated metrics and traces to multiple AWS monitoring solutions including Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and Amazon OpenSearch Service. Using X-Ray with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry requires two components: an OpenTelemetry SDK enabled for use with X-Ray, and the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector enabled for use with X-Ray.

To get started, see the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Go documentation.

For more information about using the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry with AWS X-Ray and other AWS services, see AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry or the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Documentation.

For more information about language support and usage, see AWS Observability on GitHub.