Category: Software, Data

Distributed tracing provider Lightstep has released an extension to the OpenTelemetry project designed to help improve Lambda serverless observability. With Lightstep’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda Extension to the OpenTelemetry project, developers have faster and simplified access to gain insights into their serverless’ applications performance in order to, among other things, detect bugs.

Following the compiling of the code, the extension is made available as a Lambda layer and is immediately accessible.

The main feature of Lightstep’s OpenTelemetry extension for Lambda is to thus enable organizations to collect and process ephemeral data through telemetry in ways they were previously unable to do.

The use of OpenTelemetry framework and Lightstep’s extension of it for Lambda, also supports interoperability of different observability tools that an organization might adopt.

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