Use with opentelemetry

[umairb3142]

Is it possible to use this plugin in tandem with opentelemetry?

For example, I would like to rely on opentelemetry configuration in an AWS lambda itself to configure logging, tracing and metrics and then rely on this plugin to define monitoring capabilities, etc.

Does the plugin expose an endpoint that a OTLP exporter can hook into? If yes, then this should be fairly easy as it would involve disabling the out-of-box configuration from the plugin and simply rely on configuring the exporter in the AWS lambda?

Open to any and all recommendations :)

[hghotra]

Hi @umairb3142, this should be possible. Please take a look at the docs on how to send traces to DD from the OTLP Exporter using the Lambda Extension.

[umairb3142]

Hi @hghotra thank you for that.

Is my approach recommended, however? Or could I just rely on the plugin entirely? Essentially, I'm trying to get a distributed trace setup across several services (mostly lambdas) communicating through a variety of means on AWS: SQS, Eventbridge and http. I can't seem to be able to find any docs in setting up a distributed trace through the plugin alone.

Also, the issue I see with the docs you posted is that it's not using the serverless plugin and so setting up any custom monitoring for the lambda will not be as easy as it is with the plugin?