Today, we are announcing the general availability of Apache Kafka receiver and exporter in AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT). ADOT is a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With this release, customers can use the ADOT collector to collect metrics and traces from Kafka and send metrics and traces to Kafka . The release includes support for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK).