# Centralize cross-account Amazon ECS telemetry with an ADOT gateway

DevFeed: [Centralize cross-account Amazon ECS telemetry with an ADOT gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/centralize-cross-account-amazon-ecs-telemetry-with-an-adot-gateway-4626.md>)

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Author: Rahul Kumar

Published: 2026-08-06T16:13:46Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/containers.md>)

Topics: [Amazon Elastic Container Service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-elastic-container-service.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>), [SIEM, Security, Observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/siem-security-observability.md>), [Amazon CloudWatch](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-cloudwatch.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>), [.NET Framework](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/net-framework.md>), [Traces](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/traces.md>), [log management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/log-management.md>), [Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service.md>)

Tags: [amazon-cloudwatch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-cloudwatch.md>), [amazon-eks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-eks.md>), [amazon-elastic-container-service](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-elastic-container-service.md>), [amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [intermediate-200](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/intermediate-200.md>), [logs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logs.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [net-framework](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/net-framework.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [technical-how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical-how-to.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial presents a centralized AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry gateway for collecting telemetry from Amazon ECS workloads across multiple AWS accounts. It replaces per-task sidecars, supports Windows .NET Framework tasks, receives OTLP over private connectivity, and exports traces to AWS X-Ray plus metrics and logs to Amazon CloudWatch.

## Source excerpt

Running an OpenTelemetry collector as a sidecar in every Amazon ECS task does not scale across a multi-account estate, and it cannot run at all on Windows. Learn how to replace per-task sidecars with a single centralized ADOT gateway that ingests OTLP from workloads across accounts and exports traces to AWS X-Ray and metrics and logs to Amazon CloudWatch.