Observability & Trace-based Testing in AWS with Serverless Framework, OpenSearch & Tracetest

December 13, 2022

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In-depth tutorial on how to configure OpenTelemetry instrumentation on AWS Lambda by using OpenSearch and Tracetest.

Oscar Reyes

Software Engineer

Tracetest

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