Join us on the Last9 Community Discord for a talk with Michael Hausenblas, Product Manager for the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (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.
