By capturing trace data using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, you can automatically instrument trace, sending data from Java web applications to AWS X-Ray to analyze trace data and debug errors.
Benefits
AWS monitoring solutions
Instrument your applications just once, then send metrics and traces to multiple AWS monitoring solutions.
Speed up performance troubleshooting
Speed up performance troubleshooting and reduce mean time to resolution with increased visibility into your AWS resources.
Optimize performance
AWS support helps optimize performance, lower costs, and innovate faster, while testing provides quantifiable and predictable performance overhead.
Security
Code and components undergo rigorous testing to be validated against security requirements.
Use cases
Collect and send metrics and traces
Automatically collect metadata for underlying AWS resources, and correlate application monitoring data with infrastructure monitoring data.
Pair AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry with Cloudwatch to collect, analyze, and view custom metrics. Recognize trends, create dashboards, and set alarms to proactively monitor applications.