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id: opentelemetry-instrumentation-boto3sqs
version: "0.65b0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# opentelemetry-instrumentation-boto3sqs — Boto3 SQS service tracing for OpenTelemetry

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 5.2M/mo

## What it is and what it does

This package is an OpenTelemetry instrumentation plugin that automatically captures tracing data from Boto3 library calls to AWS SQS. It wraps SQS operations to emit spans with request and response details, enabling distributed tracing across your application and infrastructure.

The instrumentation integrates with the OpenTelemetry ecosystem, meaning traces can be exported to any compatible backend (Jaeger, Datadog, New Relic, etc.). It depends on opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-instrumentation, opentelemetry-semantic-conventions, and wrapt to hook into Boto3 calls without modifying your application code directly.

Use it for:

- Trace SQS message production and consumption across microservices to debug latency issues.
- Monitor SQS operations in a distributed system to correlate failures with other service traces.
- Export SQS request metadata to a tracing backend for performance analysis and alerting.
- Instrument existing Boto3 applications with minimal code changes for observability.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Adds distributed tracing to Boto3 SQS calls via OpenTelemetry, capturing request and response metadata for observability.

Yes, if you are already using OpenTelemetry and Boto3 SQS in production. The package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, and low install friction. It is in beta status, so verify compatibility with your specific SQS usage patterns and tracing backend before deploying to critical workloads.

## Install

pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-boto3sqs
uv add opentelemetry-instrumentation-boto3sqs
poetry add opentelemetry-instrumentation-boto3sqs

## Installing opentelemetry-instrumentation-boto3sqs

Before you install: Low friction install with stable dependencies. Actively maintained as of 2026-08-14 with recent releases. Requires Python 3.10 or later.

License in practice: Apache-2.0 permissive license allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-boto3sqs

from opentelemetry.instrumentation.boto3sqs import Boto3SQSInstrumentor
Boto3SQSInstrumentor().instrument()

Requires Python 3.10 or later and an active OpenTelemetry SDK setup in your application.

Verify before relying:

- Whether this instrumentation works with all Boto3 SQS operations or only a subset.
- Performance overhead of tracing on typical SQS workloads.
- Compatibility with existing OpenTelemetry exporters and collectors.

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 5.2M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

boto3 sqs tracing, opentelemetry aws instrumentation, sqs request tracing, distributed tracing boto3, opentelemetry instrumentation, aws sqs observability, observability, aws-instrumentation, tracing

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