I've recently been reading up on the topic of distributed tracing in asp.net core. I'm using asp.net core 5 and can see that it is automatically creating tracing information that is compatible with W3C context tracing. I plan to use this information to help improve my standard logging, however, I'm also wondering what my options are for recording this tracing information to be used in a visualizer.
I'm guessing Application Insights seamlessly integrates with this (correct me if that's wrong), but what options do I have other than AI? I am generally using AWS services for everything as my client is in the AWS cloud but it looks like the .net core libraries for AWS X-Ray roll their own trace data and won't send the tracing information .net is already capturing, which is kind of annoying.
What other places besides AI can I send this tracing information to view it? Or is it possible to do this with AWS X-Ray and I'm just not finding the answer as to how that's accomplished?