Day 3 in nodejs, and giving up

[cmawhorter]

Hopefully this will save someone else some time. This is definitely not criticism of AWS or OTEL -- OTEL is essentially experimental, and thus AWS too. I can't stress how much I appreciate that this work is all happening.

But, as someone coming fresh to opentelemetry: this all is a minefield. Things are moving quickly and definitely breaking things over at otel js. Tutorials/help docs are outdated and incorrect. Versions and types don't line up. 😭

Personally, I'll be waiting for more stability. It has been 3 days and I didn't even come close to getting off the ground with the embedded cloudwatch/xray+adot stuff. But... I'm excited for the future. Can't wait.

[ThomasGHenry]

It's a nightmare.

[mhausenblas]

@ThomasGHenry please do elaborate.

[amri]

My current issue is how to record the exception against a span (asked here: #418)

I noticed that the aws x-ray exporter (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/exporter/awsxrayexporter) doesn't support the Logging pipeline yet. Correct me if I'm wrong.