From 04d839840b6ebe479ec41881951336076e0bb6f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anthony Mirabella Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 12:53:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md Removes incorrect assertion that the layers enable asynchronous export from a Lambda function. --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 91e52ac04f..f65301cb0f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ## OpenTelemetry Lambda Layers -The OpenTelemetry Lambda Layers provide the OpenTelemetry (OTel) code to export telemetry asynchronously from AWS Lambdas. It does this by embedding a stripped-down version of [OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib) inside an [AWS Lambda Extension Layer](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-aws-lambda-extensions-in-preview/). +The OpenTelemetry Lambda Layers provide the OpenTelemetry (OTel) code to export telemetry from AWS Lambdas. It does this by embedding a stripped-down version of [OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib) inside an [AWS Lambda Extension Layer](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-aws-lambda-extensions-in-preview/). Some layers include the corresponding OTel language SDK for the Lambda. This allows Lambdas to use OpenTelemetry to send traces and metrics to any configured backend.