opentelemetry-lambda
Create your own Lambda Layer in each OTel language using this starter code. Add the Lambda Layer to your Lambda Function to get tracing with OpenTelemetry. (by open-telemetry)
VictoriaMetrics
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database (by VictoriaMetrics)
| opentelemetry-lambda | VictoriaMetrics | |
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| 8 | 110 | |
| 330 | 14,467 | |
| 3.0% | 2.5% | |
| 9.3 | 10.0 | |
| 8 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
opentelemetry-lambda
Posts with mentions or reviews of opentelemetry-lambda.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-12.
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Did OpenTelemetry deliver on its promise in 2023?
I mean, sure, you can improve performance a bit by increasing the RAM/compute capacity on the Lambda. But it always adds a pretty steep overhead right now, no matter how much capacity you throw at it.
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-lambda/issue...
https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-lambda/issues/...
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Instrumenting AWS Lambda functions with OpenTelemetry SDKs
OpenTelemetry AWS Lambda repository
- OpenTelemetry in 2023
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Serverless Spy Vs. Spy Chapter 3: X-Ray vs Jaeger - Send Lambda traces with open telemetry
With the sample apps from the opentelemetry-lambda repository the Lambda part itself was easy to implement. What took me some time was to provide the jaeger Fargate service with IaC ouside of an k8s environment. But with ECS and ServiceDiscovery that was easy in the end. This should be even more simple in an EKS environment with the jaegertracing helm-charts.
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AWS Lambda tracing with OpenTelemetry and OpenSearch
OpenTelemetry recently released https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-lambda, but they also have this in the official docs https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/js/serverless/. What do you consider to be the better option?
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Serverless Spy Vs. Spy Chapter 2: AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Lambda vs X-Ray SDK
opentelemetry-lambda
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How to Instrument AWS Services with OpenTelemetry
You don’t have to create an opentelemetry configuration file such as this for each of your lambdas. In fact, you shouldn’t. In AWS, you can use Lambda Layers. You can define the OpenTelemetry tracing piece of code as a Lambda layer and use it in any Lambda you want. Furthermore, OpenTelemetry went ahead and implemented this opentelemetry-lambda layer for us. All we need to do is use it with our config.
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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).
Sorry you're having trouble working with the ADOT Lambda Layers :(. Have you had a chance to open an issue on the GitHub repo for OTel Lambda or ADOT Lambda? You should add your expected vs your actual output!
VictoriaMetrics
Posts with mentions or reviews of VictoriaMetrics.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-25.
- 16 Essential Tools for DevOps & SRE: Monitoring & Logging Mastery
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Your Essential Toolkit for DevOps & SRE: Mastering Monitoring and Logging
Official Website: VictoriaMetrics
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Show HN: ClickStack – open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
Thanks! If you'll hit any issues with the integration, then please file them at https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues , so we could quickly resolve them.
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Development Environment Configuration
Time Series: Greptime, Influx, Loki, Mimir, Prometheus, Tempo, Victoria Metrics
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Building Observability with ClickHouse
Yup, there is a big room for improvements there! BTW, VictoriaLogs docs are open source too [1], so we'll be more than happy receiving pull requests with improvements for the docs!
[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/tree/mast...
- VictoriaLogs v1.0.0 Release
- Show HN: VictoriaLogs v1.0.0 Release
- VictoriaMetrics: Fast, cost-effective monitoring and time series database
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14 Monitoring Tools for Full-Stack Developers
VictoriaMetrics is a monitoring tool and time series database. It is open-source and has a managed version.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing opentelemetry-lambda and VictoriaMetrics you can also consider the following projects:
proposal-async-context - Async Context for JavaScript
Zabbix - Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.
deploy-aws-lambda-to-vpc-with-terraform - Terraform module with all the cloud resources needed to run Lambda within a VPC
loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.
terraform-aws-jaeger - Terraform module for Jeager
jaeger - CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform