# Best Practices for using Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry

> We will talk about Observability best practices for cloud native operations, including alerting and how to keep your users happy.

Source: https://last9.io/events/best-practices-for-using-amazon-distro-for-opentelemetry/

Join us on the Last9 Community Discord for a talk with [Michael Hausenblas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mhausenblas/), Product Manager for the [AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry](https://aws-otel.github.io/) (ADOT), on the practical side of collecting, processing, and shipping telemetry with OpenTelemetry on AWS.

### What you'll learn

- **OpenTelemetry, briefly** — what the project standardises across logs, metrics, and traces, and why a single vendor-neutral telemetry pipeline matters.
- **The Collector** — pipelines built from receivers, processors, and exporters; how to think about the collector as a universal agent rather than a per-vendor sidecar.
- **Deployment patterns** — agent vs. gateway mode, when to centralise, and how to scale horizontally as telemetry volume grows.
- **Operating the collector** — using the collector's own metrics and profiles to monitor its health, spot bottlenecks, and debug performance issues in production.
- **ADOT on AWS** — practical tips for running ADOT on EKS, ECS, and Lambda, including how to keep cold starts in check when using auto-instrumentation in serverless.
- **Live Q&A** — bring your questions on scaling strategies, monitoring the collector itself, and latency trade-offs in Lambda.

[RSVP on Discord →](https://discord.gg/hr3tCQ4prM?event=1108408359272595467)