Unable to see OpenTelemetry Span Events in AWS X-Ray

[rcooper85]

Describe the bug
When trying to add a Span Event to a span using the span.current.addEvent() method in OpenTelemetry, the event is not visible in AWS X-Ray. We can see our custom spans but none of the Events.
Steps to reproduce
We are using a Java SpringBoot application using the spring-boot-starter-parent version 2.4.5. We are using the opentelemetry-otlp-exporter-starter 1.4.1-alpha dependency.

We created a docker image for our application that adds the aws-opentelemetry-agent.jar (v1.4.1) into the image when we build it. We then run as a javaagent when the image is deployed. We deploy our application to ECS Fargate and we then run the aws-otel-collector as a sidecar with the default configuration.

What did you expect to see?
We expected to see our span events either as annotations or metadata in our spans.

What did you see instead?
We just saw our custom spans without any Span Events.

Additional context
We are also experiencing the same behaviour when we use Elastic as the backend for observability. This is due to this issue

[anuraaga]

Thanks for filing this @rcooper85 - indeed similar to Elastic, the X-Ray data model itself doesn't contain the concept of events so supporting them will be a big change including the backend. Events can be pretty interesting so hopefully we can add support for them but it will take some time.

[rcooper85]

Hi @anuraaga - thank you for your quick response on this. Is that the same for setStatus for spans too? As we are not seeing the status in X-Ray either when we use, for example: Span.current().setStatus(StatusCode.OK, "Order Received");

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