aws-otel-js vs opentelemetry.io

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aws-otel-js		opentelemetry.io
	Project
1	Mentions	1
34	Stars	464
-	Growth	2.2%
1.9	Activity	9.9
8 months ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
Apache License 2.0	License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

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aws-otel-js

Posts with mentions or reviews of aws-otel-js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-15.

Struggling to connect the dots - ADOT with Lambda using aws-otel-nodejs Lambda layer, not sure how to go from here to using custom instrumentation (e.g. instrumentation-pg, instrumentation-graphql, etc).
3 projects | /r/OpenTelemetry | 15 Jul 2022

I've also checked out this sample project / instrumentation, but comparing this to the description in the article I linked to above leaves me even more confused. For example, in the article linked above it says In order to send trace data to AWS X-Ray via the ADOT Collector, you must configure the X-Ray ID generator, X-Ray propagator, and collector gRPC exporter on the global tracer provider., but in the sample app there is no mention of / use of OTLPTraceExporter. So it's not clear to me if the article is missing something, or the sample code is missing something, etc, etc.

opentelemetry.io

Posts with mentions or reviews of opentelemetry.io. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-20.

OpenTelemetry for Python: The Hard Way
6 projects | dev.to | 20 Sep 2022

Note: Although the OpenTelemetry documentation does provide some insight into how to do manual context propagation in Python, the documentation needs a little work. I’m actually part of the OpenTelemetry Comms SIG, so I am using this as motivation to improve the docs around this topic…stay tuned for updates to the OTel docs too! 😎

What are some alternatives?

When comparing aws-otel-js and opentelemetry.io you can also consider the following projects:

opentelemetry-lambda - Create your own Lambda Layer in each OTel language using this starter code. Add the Lambda Layer to your Lamdba Function to get tracing with OpenTelemetry.

opentelemetry-examples - Example code and resources for working with OpenTelemetry, provided by Lightstep

aws-otel-collector - AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector (see ADOT Roadmap at https://github.com/orgs/aws-observability/projects/4)

CPython - The Python programming language

lambda-opentelemetry - AWS Lambda instrumentation using Open Telemetry SDKs. Project initialised using serverless framework

MongoDB - The MongoDB Database

aws-otel-lambda - AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry - AWS Lambda

opentelemetry-python-contrib - OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Python modules

opentelemetry-specification - Specifications for OpenTelemetry

qryn - qryn is a polyglot, high-performance observability framework for ClickHouse. Ingest, store and analyze logs, metrics and telemetry traces from any agent supporting Loki, Prometheus, OTLP, Tempo, Elastic, InfluxDB and many more formats and query transparently using Grafana or any other compatible client.