@opentelemetry/resource-detector-aws NPM

OpenTelemetry Resource Detector for AWS

Resource detector for Amazon Web Services.

Status

Maturity	Component Owner	Compatibility
Unmaintained	N/A	API 1.0+SDK 1.0+

Installation

npm install --save @opentelemetry/resource-detector-aws

Usage

import { detectResources } from '@opentelemetry/resources';
import { awsEc2Detector } from '@opentelemetry/resource-detector-aws'
const resource = await detectResources({
   detectors: [awsEc2Detector],
})

const tracerProvider = new NodeTracerProvider({ resource });

Available detectors

This package uses @opentelemetry/semantic-conventions version 1.22+, which implements Semantic Convention Version 1.7.0

AWS Beanstalk Detector

Populates service for processes running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Resource Attribute	Description
cloud.platform	The cloud platform. In this context, it's always "aws_elastic_beanstalk"
cloud.provider	The cloud provider. In this context, it's always "aws"
service.instance.id	Value of `deployment_id` from config file `environment.conf`
service.name	The service name. In this context, it's always "aws_elastic_beanstalk"
service.namespace	Value of `environment_name` from config file `environment.conf`
service.version	Value of `version_label` from config file `environment.conf`

AWS EC2 Detector

Populates cloud and host for processes running on Amazon EC2, including abstractions such as ECS on EC2. Notably, it does not populate anything on AWS Fargate.

Resource Attribute	Description
cloud.account.id	Value of `accountId` from `/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document` request
cloud.availability_zone	Value of `availabilityZone` from `/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document` request
cloud.platform	The cloud platform. In this context, it's always "aws_ec2"
cloud.provider	The cloud provider. In this context, it's always "aws"
cloud.region	Value of `region` from `/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document` request
host.id	Value of `instanceId` from `/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document` request
host.name	Value of `hostname` from `/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document` request
host.type	Value of `instanceType` from `/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document` request

AWS ECS Detector

Populates container for containers running on Amazon ECS.

Resource Attribute	Description
aws.ecs.container.arn	Value of `ContainerARN` from the request to the metadata Uri. The Metadata Uri is stored on the Environment Variable `ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4`
aws.ecs.cluster.arn	Value in the format `${baseArn}:cluster/${cluster}`, with `baseArn` and `cluster` from a `ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4/task` request, with values from `TaskARN` and `Cluster` respectively
aws.ecs.launchtype	Value of `LaunchType` from `ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4/task` request
aws.ecs.task.arn	Value of `TaskARN` from `ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4/task` request
aws.ecs.task.family	Value of `Family` from `ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4/task` request
aws.ecs.task.revision	Value of `Revision` from `ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4/task` request
aws.log.group.arns	Value on format `arn:aws:logs:${logsRegion}:${awsAccount}:log-group:${logsGroupName}`, with `logsRegions` and `logsGroupName` from logs metadata, values of `awslogs-region` and `awslogs-group` respectively, and `awsAccount` parsed value from the `TaskARN`. Logs metadata values come from `LogOptions` on `ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4` request
aws.log.group.names	Value of `awslogs-group` from logs metadata. Logs metadata values come from `LogOptions` on `ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4` request
aws.log.stream.arns	Value on format `arn:aws:logs:${logsRegion}:${awsAccount}:log-group:${logsGroupName}:log-stream:${logsStreamName}`, with `logsRegions`, `logsGroupName` and `logsStreamName` from logs metadata, values of `awslogs-region`, `awslogs-group` and `awslogs-stream` respectively, and `awsAccount` parsed value from the `TaskARN`
aws.log.stream.names	Value of `awslogs-stream` from logs metadata
cloud.account.id	Parsed value from the `TaskARN`
cloud.availability_zone	Value of `AvailabilityZone` from `ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4/task` request. This value is not available in all Fargate runtimes
cloud.platform	The cloud platform. In this context, it's always "aws_ecs"
cloud.provider	The cloud provider. In this context, it's always "aws"
cloud.region	Parsed value from the `TaskARN`
cloud.resource_id	Value of `ContainerARN` from `ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4/task` request
container.id	Value from file `/proc/self/cgroup`
container.name	The hostname of the operating system

AWS EKS Detector

Populates container and k8s.cluster_name for containers running on Amazon EKS. k8s.cluster_name is not always available depending on the configuration of CloudWatch monitoring for the EKS cluster.

Resource Attribute	Description
cloud.platform	The cloud platform. In this context, it's always "aws_eks"
cloud.provider	The cloud provider. In this context, it's always "aws"
container.id	Value from config file `/proc/self/cgroup`
k8s.cluster.name	Value of `cluster.name` from `/api/v1/namespaces/amazon-cloudwatch/configmaps/cluster-info` request

AWS Lambda Detector

Populates faas and cloud for functions running on AWS Lambda. faas.id is currently not populated as it is not provided by the runtime at startup.

Resource Attribute	Description
cloud.platform	The cloud platform. In this context, it's always "aws_lambda"
cloud.provider	The cloud provider. In this context, it's always "aws"
cloud.region	Value of Process Environment Variable `AWS_REGION`
faas.name	Value of Process Environment Variable `AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME`
faas.version	Value of Process Environment Variable `AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION`