# AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Python
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With the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Python, you can instrument your applications once and send correlated metrics and traces to multiple AWS monitoring solutions including Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and Amazon OpenSearch Service. Using X-Ray with ADOT requires two components: an *OpenTelemetry SDK* enabled for use with X-Ray, and the *AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector* enabled for use with X-Ray. ADOT Python includes auto-instrumentation support, enabling your application to send traces without code changes.

To get started, see the [AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Python documentation](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/getting-started/python-sdk).

For more information about using the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry with AWS X-Ray and other AWS services, see [AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry](https://aws-otel.github.io/) or the [AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Documentation](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/introduction).

For more information about language support and usage, see [AWS Observability on GitHub](https://github.com/aws-observability).

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS X-Ray. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query xray` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).