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## Overview

Instrument your AWS Lambda applications with a Datadog Lambda Library to collect traces, enhanced metrics, and custom metrics.
Instrument your AWS Lambda applications with a Datadog Lambda Extension to collect traces, enhanced metrics, and custom metrics. The Datadog Lambda Extension is analogous to using the Datadog Agent and Datadog tracing libraries for host-based infrastructure and applications.

{{< img src="serverless/serverless_tracing_installation_instructions.png" alt="A diagram that shows how Datadog receives telemetry from your instrumented AWS Lambda application. Your Lambda application, instrumented with a Datadog Lambda Library, sends logs, traces, enhanced metrics, and custom metrics to the Datadog Lambda Extension, which then pushes this data to Datadog." style="width:100%;" >}}

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Agentic onboarding for Datadog Serverless is in Preview. Use your favorite AI coding tool such as Cursor or Claude to bulk-add Datadog monitoring to your Lambda functions.
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To get started, [sign up for a Datadog account][1] if you don’t already have one. Then, follow the [in-app installation flow in Fleet Automation][8] for AWS Lambda to instrument your Lambda functions. This quick-start configuration enables your functions to send real-time metrics, logs, and traces to Datadog.

A sample application is [available on GitHub][6] with instructions on how to deploy with multiple runtimes and infrastructure-as-code tools.
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## Instrumentation instructions

You can use [remote instrumentation][5] to add instrumentation to your AWS Lambda functions and keep them instrumented securely. See [Remote instrumentation for AWS Lambda][5].

To instrument your functions without remote instrumentation, see detailed instrumentation instructions:

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## Advanced configurations
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