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Status Delivered
Workspace Instana
Categories Node
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 27, 2023

Add Support for node18 with Lambda Runtime Native Tracing

Maximum Node version currently supported with Lambda is 16, as can be seen here:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/243?topic=kinesis-aws-lambda-native-tracing-nodejs#supported-runtimes

Node 16 is end of life 2023-09-11, with likely retirement of its use with AWS Lambda a while afterward.

https://nodejs.dev/en/about/releases/

In order to support customers in their push to current LTS (supported til 2025-04-30) please allow use of Instana tracing via layer with node 18. This also means updating your layer to support AWS SDK v3 being bundled with lambda by default.

More information here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-runtimes.html

Idea priority High