AWS Lambda functions are super important to instrument, because they run intermittently and typically in the middle of stuff. Sadly they are not the easiest to instrument.
Kudos then to Chris Lasher, who not only got it working, but wrote up the whole process to help all of us:
https://www.gotgenes.com/posts/sending-otel-from-aws-lambda-to-honeycomb/
In this post, he hooks OpenTelemetry up to Honeycomb, but you can modify his work to send to a different provider. It is the Lambda part that’s hard.
