To instrument a Go function in AWS Lambda for Splunk APM, follow these steps:

1. Run the following commands to install the otellambda and the Splunk OTel Go distribution:

   go get -u go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/otellambda
   go get -u github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-go/distro

2. Create a wrapper for the OpenTelemetry instrumentation in your function’s code. For example:

   package main
   
   import (
      "context"
      "fmt"
   
      "github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
      "github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-go/distro"
      "go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/otellambda"
      "go.opentelemetry.io/otel"
   )
   
   func main() {
      distro.Run()
      flusher := otel.GetTracerProvider().(otellambda.Flusher)
      lambda.Start(otellambda.InstrumentHandler(HandleRequest, otellambda.WithFlusher(flusher)))
   }
   
   type MyEvent struct {
      Name string `json:"name"`
   }
   
   func HandleRequest(ctx context.Context, name MyEvent) (string, error) {
      return fmt.Sprintf("Hello %s!", name.Name), nil
   }

   Note:

   • For a full example, see OpenTelemetry Lambda tracing examples on GitHub.
   • See Instrument your Go application for Splunk Observability Cloud for more information.
3. Configure OTEL_PROPAGATORS to enable W3C tracecontext, W3C baggage, and AWS X-Ray propagation:

   OTEL_PROPAGATORS=tracecontext,baggage,xray

   Note: See Propagator configiration for more information.

4. Configure the required environment variables. See Configure the Splunk OpenTelemetry Lambda layer.

See Instrument your AWS Lambda function for Splunk Observability Cloud for more information.