AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry vs Telegraf
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
aws-otel.github.ioTelegraf
influxdata.comSide by side
| Figure | AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry | Telegraf |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $1,500/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Telemetry Pipeline Software | 8.1 (#11) | 8.7 (#3) |
| Purpose | ADOT is an AWS-supported distribution of OpenTelemetry for collecting logs, metrics, and traces. | Telegraf is an open source agent for collecting metrics from infrastructure, applications, and devices. |
Plans
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
- AWS Distro for OpenTelemetryFree
Telegraf
- Telegraf (open source)Free
- Telegraf OSSFree
- Telegraf Enterprise$18,000 a year
- Telegraf Enterprise$18,000 a year
In their own words
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) collects logs, metrics, and traces, with options to send correlated telemetry to one or more observability backends. Applications can be instrumented once, and auto-instrumentation can generate traces without changes to application code. ADOT also gathers metadata from AWS resources and managed services to connect application performance data with infrastructure information. Documented destinations include Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Amazon OpenSearch, OTLP-compliant backends, and Amazon MSK. It supports workloads on AWS App Runner, Lambda, EC2, ECS, EKS on EC2, Fargate, and on-premises datacenters. Getting-started guides cover Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, .NET, PHP, and Android. The project describes ADOT as backed by AWS Support, testing, and certification, and says it contributes changes and fixes to the OpenTelemetry community. ADOT is free and supports cloud and self-hosted deployment. The download page lists Collector version 0.50.0, released August 25, 2026, under the Apache-2.0 license.