Designed to export/collect metrics, traces and logs from containers and export to many destinations.
Popular ones are ,,https://aws.amazon.com/xray/.
Data sampling need to be carefully configured to not waste cloud resources
otel-collector resource limits should be carefully configured to have enough capacity to export cluster data.
Original Project https://opentelemetry.io/
Fork from AWS https://aws-otel.github.io/
Implementation Source https://github.com/dasmeta/terraform-aws-eks/tree/main/modules/adot
The first 100,000 traces recorded each month are free.
The first 1,000,000 traces retrieved or scanned each month are free.
Beyond the free tier, traces recorded cost $5.00 per 1 million traces recorded ($0.000005 per trace).
Beyond the free tier, traces retrieved cost $0.50 per 1 million traces retrieved ($0.0000005 per trace).
Beyond the free tier, traces scanned cost $0.50 per 1 million traces scanned ($0.0000005 per trace).