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# Send metric and trace data with ADOT Operator
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Amazon EKS supports using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI and Amazon EKS API to install and manage the [AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT)](https://aws-otel.github.io/) Operator. This makes it easier to enable your applications running on Amazon EKS to send metric and trace data to multiple monitoring service options like [Amazon CloudWatch](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch), [Prometheus](https://console.aws.amazon.com/prometheus), and [X-Ray](https://console.aws.amazon.com/xray).

For more information, see [Getting Started with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry using EKS Add-Ons](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/getting-started/adot-eks-add-on) in the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry documentation.

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon EKS. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query eks` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).