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# Serverless and OpenTelemetry

[OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/) is an open source observability framework that provides IT teams with standardized protocols and tools for collecting and routing telemetry data.

If your code is custom instrumented with the [OpenTelemetry API](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/reference/specification/trace/api), or you want to write vendor-agnostic custom instrumentation code, you can configure it to generate Datadog-style spans and traces. You can then process these spans and traces with the Datadog tracing library for your language, and send the data to Datadog.

### AWS Lambda{% #aws-lambda %}

See [AWS Lambda and OpenTelemetry](https://docs.datadoghq.com/serverless/aws_lambda/opentelemetry).

## Further Reading{% #further-reading %}

- [OpenTelemetry in Datadog](https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/)