instrumentation-aws-sdk: instrumentation not applying patch

[wpessers]

What version of OpenTelemetry are you using?

@opentelemetry/instrumentation-aws-sdk: 0.62.0

What version of Node are you using?

22

What did you do?

We upgraded the @opentelemetry/instrumentation-aws-sdk to version 0.62.0 before the latest release of the opentelemetry-lambda nodejs layer.

What did you expect to see?

The aws sdk being patched and aws-sdk spans still being exported like before.

This is an example of DEBUG logs observed when using the lambda layer with the previous version 0.61.2 of the aws-sdk instrumentation:

OpenTelemetry wrapper init completed in 179 ms
OpenTelemetry loader init completed in 18 ms
DEBUG @opentelemetry/instrumentation-aws-sdk Applying instrumentation patch for module on require hook { module: '@smithy/middleware-stack', version: '4.1.1', baseDir: '/var/runtime/node_modules/@aws-sdk/node_modules/@smithy/middleware-stack' }
DEBUG @opentelemetry/instrumentation-aws-sdk propwrapping aws-sdk v3 constructStack
DEBUG @opentelemetry/instrumentation-aws-sdk Applying instrumentation patch for module on require hook { module: '@smithy/smithy-client', version: '4.6.4', baseDir: '/var/runtime/node_modules/@aws-sdk/node_modules/@smithy/smithy-client' }
WARN Failed extracting version /var/task/lambdas
DEBUG @opentelemetry/instrumentation-aws-lambda Applying instrumentation patch for nodejs module file on require hook { module: '/var/task/lambdas/controlMissionLambda.js', version: undefined, fileName: 'controlMissionLambda', baseDir: '/var/task/lambdas' }
DEBUG patch handler function

What did you see instead?

The aws sdk is no longer being patched and aws-sdk spans are no longer exported.

Logs for any version starting from 0.62.0 of the aws-sdk instrumentation are looking like this:

OpenTelemetry wrapper init completed in 150 ms
OpenTelemetry loader init completed in 9 ms
WARN Failed extracting version /var/task/lambdas
DEBUG @opentelemetry/instrumentation-aws-lambda Applying instrumentation patch for nodejs module file on require hook { module: '/var/task/lambdas/controlMissionLambda.js', version: undefined, fileName: 'controlMissionLambda', baseDir: '/var/task/lambdas' }
DEBUG patch handler function

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[serkan-ozal]

I think,

• it might be caused by @opentelemetry/instrumentation changes between 0.205.0 and 0.206.0
• and the usual suspect here is the require-in-the-middle upgrade to v8.0.0: chore(deps): Update require-in-the-middle to v8.0.0 opentelemetry-js#5959

[trentm]

FYI: some discussion in Slack here: https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C08T7MZTV8W/p1762791817733559