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Honeycomb published a guide on running the OpenTelemetry Collector as an AWS Lambda function. The approach enables telemetry data collection and export directly from serverless environments. The configuration uses the OpenTelemetry Collector's Lambda extension to process traces and metrics without managing separate infrastructure.
Datadog Fleet Automation provides an end-to-end view of OpenTelemetry gateway architectures at the cluster level for the Datadog Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector and upstream-compatible OTel Collectors. The feature unifies visibility of traffic patterns, Collector configurations, and active monitor signals to reduce context switching and speed incident triage.
Datadog announced faster instrumentation, deeper digital experience monitoring, and broader cloud integrations at DASH 2026. The platform now natively resolves OpenTelemetry semantic conventions, giving OTel pipeline users the same curated product experiences as Datadog-native instrumentation. New cloud support includes Alibaba, Nebius, and OVHcloud.
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