Using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry as a collector

This section describes how to configure the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Collector to scrape from a Prometheus-instrumented application, and send the metrics to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. For more information about the ADOT Collector, see AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry.

The following topics describe three different ways to set up ADOT as a collector for your metrics, based on whether your metrics are coming from Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, or an Amazon EC2 instance.

Topics

• Set up metrics ingestion using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry on an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster
• Set up metrics ingestion from Amazon ECS using AWS Distro for Open Telemetry
• Set up metrics ingestion from an Amazon EC2 instance using remote write