# AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Python
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With the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Python, you can instrument your applications once and send correlated metrics and traces to multiple AWS monitoring solutions including Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and Amazon OpenSearch Service. Using X-Ray with ADOT requires two components: an *OpenTelemetry SDK* enabled for use with X-Ray, and the *AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector* enabled for use with X-Ray. ADOT Python includes auto-instrumentation support, enabling your application to send traces without code changes.

To get started, see the [AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Python documentation](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/getting-started/python-sdk).

For more information about using the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry with AWS X-Ray and other AWS services, see [AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry](https://aws-otel.github.io/) or the [AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Documentation](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/introduction).

For more information about language support and usage, see [AWS Observability on GitHub](https://github.com/aws-observability).