Amazon CloudWatch Agent adds support for OpenTelemetry traces and AWS X-Ray

[Amazon CloudWatch](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/), the native monitoring and observability service provided by AWS, has added CloudWatch Agent support for the collection of [AWS X-Ray](https://aws.amazon.com/xray/) and [OpenTelemetry traces](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/getting-started/java-sdk). Whether you’re already an X-Ray customer, or just getting started with OpenTelemetry, you are now able to collect metrics, logs, and traces with a single agent, simplifying installation, configuration and management of telemetry collection. With today’s launch, you can now configure CloudWatch Agent to collect traces from both AWS X-Ray and OpenTelemetry instrumentation SDK and send them to AWS X-Ray, without needing to run a separate trace collection daemon. OpenTelemetry SDK allow developers to instrument their applications once using a portable and interoperable protocol for sending correlated metrics and traces to monitoring services such as CloudWatch and X-Ray. X-Ray distributed tracing system helps to provide a complete view of requests as they travel through your application including other [supported AWS Services](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-services.html). Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudWatch Agent, and AWS X-Ray are available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To get started, see the [Amazon CloudWatch Agent user guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/Install-CloudWatch-Agent.html), [AWS X-Ray user guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/aws-xray.html), and [AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Getting Started guide](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/introduction). Amazon CloudWatch Agent and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry are available at no cost. For information on Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray pricing, see the CloudWatch and X-Ray pricing pages.