[Enhancement] Example of how to use Orchestrion with a Lambda Layer

[lprior-repo]

We use Go Lambda layers and have quite a lot of lambdas we need to wrap after moving to Datadog. Once thing we don't want to do is manually wrap the numerous Lambdas we have. So when I found Orchestrion I was very excited only to realize I wasn't sure how to get all the components to work together.

We don't have an agent installed anywhere as we are a server less shop. Right now we are using the X Ray SDK and merging it in but I'd love to be purely Datadog based.

Would it be as simple as combining Orchestrion at runtime and throwing the needed layers on with Terraform?

[nevilgeorge]

Hi! Thanks for raising this to us.

Unfortunately, we don't currently have plans to support Orchestrion on Go lambdas. Please submit this as a feature request through support@datadoghq.com, and we will keep you updated when we pick it up.

[Julio-Guerra]

This github issue is enough as a feature request and we'll keep it open until we support this integration.

We unfortunately have no ETA to provide at the moment, but we're open to external contributions if anyone is interested. Testing, and building the testing CI for AWS Lambda, is a non-negligible part of the work, and I'm not sure whether https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-runtime-interface-emulator will be suitable or not.

[mtoffl01]

Hey @lprior-repo ,

While Orchestrion doesn't yet support AWS Lambda, you might be able to partially achieve your goal using custom spans with the //dd:span directive — here’s a reference from the Datadog docs in case it's helpful.

Just wanted to share this option in case you hadn’t come across it yet.

Thanks!