CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

Unreleased

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• filter processor: The configs for logs filter processor have been changed to be consistent with the metrics filter processor. (#4895)
• splunk_hec receiver: source_key, sourcetype_key, host_key and index_key have now moved under hec_metadata_to_otel_attrs (#4726)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• filter processor: Add ability to include logs based on resource attributes in addition to excluding logs based on resource attributes for strict matching. (#4895)
• kubelet API: Add ability to create a empty CertPool when the system run environment is windows

v0.35.0

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Rename configparser.Parser to configparser.ConfigMap (#5070)
• Rename TelemetryCreateSettings -> TelemetrySettings (#5169)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• chore: update influxdb exporter and receiver (#5058)
• chore(dynatrace): use payload limit from api constants (#5077)
• Add documentation for filelog's new force_flush_period parameter (#5066)
• Reuse the gzip reader with a sync.Pool (#5145)
• Add a trace observer when splunkhecreceiver is used for logs (#5063)
• Remove usage of deprecated pdata.AttributeValueMapToMap (#5174)
• Podman Stats Receiver: Receiver and Metrics implementation (#4577)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Use staleness markers generated by prometheus, rather than making our own (#5062)
• datadogexporter exporter: skip NaN and infinite values (#5053)

v0.34.0

🚀 New components 🚀

• cumulativetodelta processor to convert cumulative sum metrics to cumulative delta

• file exporter from core repository (#3474)

• jaeger exporter from core repository (#3474)

• kafka exporter from core repository (#3474)

• opencensus exporter from core repository (#3474)

• prometheus exporter from core repository (#3474)

• prometheusremotewrite exporter from core repository (#3474)

• zipkin exporter from core repository (#3474)

• attribute processor from core repository (#3474)

• filter processor from core repository (#3474)

• probabilisticsampler processor from core repository (#3474)

• resource processor from core repository (#3474)

• span processor from core repository (#3474)

• hostmetrics receiver from core repository (#3474)

• jaeger receiver from core repository (#3474)

• kafka receiver from core repository (#3474)

• opencensus receiver from core repository (#3474)

• prometheus receiver from core repository (#3474)

• zipkin receiver from core repository (#3474)

• bearertokenauth extension from core repository (#3474)

• healthcheck extension from core repository (#3474)

• oidcauth extension from core repository (#3474)

• pprof extension from core repository (#3474)

• testbed from core repository (#3474)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• tailsampling processor: Add new policy probabilistic (#3876)

v0.33.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.33.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• cumulativetodelta processor to convert cumulative sum metrics to cumulative delta

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Collector contrib has now full support for metrics proto v0.9.0.

v0.32.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.32.0 (Beta) 🎉

This release is marked as "bad" since the metrics pipelines will produce bad data.

• See open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#3824

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• splunk_hec receiver/exporter: com.splunk.source field is mapped to source field in Splunk instead of service.name (#4596)
• redis receiver: Move interval runner package to internal/interval (#4600)
• datadog exporter: Export summary count and sum as monotonic counts (#4605)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• logzio exporter:
  • New implementation of an in-memory queue to store traces, data compression with gzip, and queue configuration options (#4395)
  • Make Hclog2ZapLogger struct and methods private for public go api review (#4431)
• newrelic exporter (#4392):
  • Marked unsupported metric as permanent error
  • Force the interval to be valid even if 0
• awsxray exporter: Add PHP stacktrace parsing support (#4454)
• file_storage extension: Implementation of batch storage API (#4145)
• datadog exporter:
  • Skip sum metrics with no aggregation temporality (#4597)
  • Export delta sums as counts (#4609)
• elasticsearch exporter: Add dedot support (#4579)
• signalfx exporter: Add process metric to translation rules (#4598)
• splunk_hec exporter: Add profiling logs support (#4464)
• awsemf exporter: Replace logGroup and logStream pattern with metric labels (#4466)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• awsxray exporter: Fix the origin on ECS/EKS/EB on EC2 cases (#4391)
• splunk_hec exporter: Prevent re-sending logs that were successfully sent (#4467)
• signalfx exporter: Prefix temporary metric translations (#4394)

v0.31.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.31.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• influxdb receiver: Removed metrics_schema config option (#4277)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Update to OTLP 0.8.0:
  • Remove use of IntHistogram (#4276)
  • Update exporters/receivers for NumberDataPoint
• Remove use of deprecated pdata slice Resize() (#4203, #4208, #4209)
• awsemf exporter: Added the option to have a user who is sending metrics from EKS Fargate Container Insights to reformat them to look the same as insights from ECS so that they can be ingested by CloudWatch (#4130)
• k8scluster receiver: Support OpenShift cluster quota metrics (#4342)
• newrelic exporter (#4278):
  • Requests are now retry-able via configuration option (defaults to retries enabled). Permanent errors are not retried.
  • The exporter monitoring metrics now include an untagged summary metric for ease of use.
  • Improved error logging to include URLs that fail to post messages to New Relic.
• datadog exporter: Upscale trace stats when global sampling rate is set (#4213)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• statsd receiver: Add option to set Counter to be monotonic (#4154)
• Fix internal/stanza severity mappings (#4315)
• awsxray exporter: Fix the wrong AWS env resource setting (#4384)
• newrelic exporter (#4278):
  • Configuration unmarshalling did not allow timeout value to be set to 0 in the endpoint specific section.
  • Request cancellation was not propagated via context into the http request.
  • The queued retry logger is set to a zap.Nop logger as intended.

v0.30.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.30.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• oauth2clientauth extension: ported from core (#3848)
• metrics-generation processor: is now enabled and available (#4047)

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Removed jaegerthrifthttp exporter (#4089)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• tailsampling processor:
  • Add new policy status_code (#3754)
  • Add new tail sampling processor policy: status_code (#3754)
• awscontainerinsights receiver:
  • Integrate components and fix bugs for EKS Container Insights (#3846)
  • Add Cgroup to collect ECS instance metrics for container insights receiver #3875
• spanmetrics processor: Support sub-millisecond latency buckets (#4091)
• sentry exporter: Add exception event capture in sentry (#3854)

v0.29.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.29.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• redis receiver (#3808)
  • removed configuration service_name. Use resource processor or resource_attributes setting if using receivercreator
  • removed type label and set instrumentation library name to otelcol/redis as other receivers do

💡 Enhancements 💡

• tailsampling processor:
  • Add new policy latency (#3750)
  • Add new policy status_code (#3754)
• splunkhec exporter: Include trace_id and span_id if set (#3850)
• newrelic exporter: Update instrumentation naming in accordance with otel spec (#3733)
• sentry exporter: Added support for insecure connection with Sentry (#3446)
• k8s processor:
  • Add namespace k8s tagger (#3384)
  • Add ignored pod names as config parameter (#3520)
• awsemf exporter: Add support for TaskDefinitionFamily placeholder on log stream name (#3755)
• loki exporter: Add resource attributes as Loki label (#3418)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• datadog exporter:
  • Ensure top level spans are computed (#3786)
  • Update env clobbering behavior (#3851)
• awsxray exporter: Fixed filtered attribute translation (#3757)
• splunkhec exporter: Include trace and span id if set in log record (#3850)

v0.28.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.28.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• humio exporter to export data to Humio using JSON over the HTTP Ingest API
• udplog receiver to receives logs from udp using the opentelemetry-log-collection library
• tanzuobservability exporter to send traces to Tanzu Observability

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• f5cloud exporter (#3509):
  • Renamed the config 'auth' field to 'f5cloud_auth'. This will prevent a config field name collision when Support for Custom Exporter Authenticators as Extensions is ready to be integrated.

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Enabled Dependabot for Github Actions (#3543)
• Change obsreport helpers for receivers to use the new pattern created in Collector (#3439,#3443,#3449,#3504,#3521,#3548)
• datadog exporter:
  • Add logging for unknown or unsupported metric types (#3421)
  • Add collector version tag to internal health metrics (#3394)
  • Remove sublayer stats calc and mutex (#3531)
  • Deduplicate hosts for which we send running metrics (#3539)
  • Add support for summary datatype (#3660)
  • Add datadog span operation name remapping config option (#3444)
  • Update error formatting for error spans that are not exceptions (#3701)
• nginx receiver: Update the nginx metrics to more closely align with the conventions (#3420)
• elasticsearch exporter: Init JSON encoding support (#3101)
• jmx receiver:
  • Allow setting system properties (#3450)
  • Update tested JMX Metric Gatherer release (#3695)
• Refactor components for the Client Authentication Extensions (#3507)
• Remove redundant conversion calls (#3688)
• storage extension: Add a Close method to Client interface (#3506)
• splunkhec exporter: Add metric_type as key which maps to the type of the metric (#3696)
• k8s processor: Add semantic conventions to k8s-tagger for pod metadata (#3544)
• kubeletstats receiver: Refactor kubelet client to internal folder (#3698)
• newrelic exporter (#3690):
  • Updates the log level from error to debug when New Relic rate limiting occurs
  • Updates the sanitized api key that is reported via metrics
• filestorage extension: Add ability to specify name (#3703)
• awsemf exporter: Store the initial value for cumulative metrics (#3425)
• awskinesis exporter: Refactor to allow for extended types of encoding (#3655)
• ecsobserver extension:
  • Add task definition, ec2, and service fetcher (#3503)
  • Add exporter to convert task to target (#3333)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• awsemf exporter: Remove delta adjustment from summaries by default (#3408)
• alibabacloudlogservice exporter: Sanitize labels for metrics (#3454)
• statsd receiver: Fix StatsD drop metrics tags when using summary as observer_type for timer/histogram (#3440)
• awsxray exporter: Restore setting of Throttle for HTTP throttle response (#3685)
• awsxray receiver: Fix quick start bug (#3653)
• metricstransform processor: Check all data points for matching metric label values (#3435)

v0.27.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.27.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• tcplog receiver to receive logs from tcp using the opentelemetry-log-collection library
• influxdb receiver to accept metrics data as InfluxDB Line Protocol

💡 Enhancements 💡

• splunkhec exporter:
  • Include the response in returned 400 errors (#3338)
  • Map summary metrics to Splunk HEC metrics (#3344)
  • Add HEC telemetry (#3260)
• newrelic exporter: Include dropped attributes and events counts (#3187)
• datadog exporter:
  • Add Fargate task ARN to container tags (#3326)
  • Improve mappings for span kind dd span type (#3368)
• signalfx exporter: Add info log for host metadata properties update (#3343)
• awsprometheusremotewrite exporter: Add SDK and system information to User-Agent header (#3317)
• metricstransform processor: Add filtering capabilities matching metric label values for applying changes (#3201)
• groupbytrace processor: Added workers for queue processing (#2902)
• resourcedetection processor: Add docker detector (#2775)
• tailsampling processor: Support regex on span attribute filtering (#3335)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• datadog exporter:
  • Update Datadog attributes to tags mapping (#3292)
  • Consistent hostname and default metrics behavior (#3286)
• signalfx exporter: Handle character limits on metric names and dimensions (#3328)
• newrelic exporter: Fix timestamp value for cumulative metrics (#3406)

v0.26.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.26.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• influxdb exporter to support sending tracing, metrics, and logging data to InfluxDB

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• signalfx exporter (#3207):
  • Additional metrics excluded by default by signalfx exporter
    • system.disk.io_time
    • system.disk.operation_time
    • system.disk.weighted_io_time
    • system.network.connections
    • system.processes.count
    • system.processes.created

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Add default config and systemd environment file support for DEB/RPM packages (#3123)
• Log errors on receiver start/stop failures (#3208)
• newrelic exporter: Update API key detection logic (#3212)
• splunkhec exporter:
  • Mark permanent errors to avoid futile retries (#3253)
  • Add TLS certs verification (#3204)
• datadog exporter:
  • Add env and tag name normalization to trace payloads (#3200)
  • add ignore_resources configuration option (#3245)
• jmx receiver: Update for latest snapshot and header support (#3283)
• awsxray exporter: Added support for stack trace translation for .NET language (#3280)
• statsd receiver: Add timing/histogram for statsD receiver as OTLP summary (#3261)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• awsprometheusremotewrite exporter:
  • Remove sending_queue (#3186)
  • Use the correct default for aws_auth.service (#3161)
  • Identify the Amazon Prometheus region from the endpoint (#3210)
  • Don't panic in case session can't be constructed (#3221)
• datadog exporter: Add max tag length (#3185)
• sapm exporter: Fix crash when passing the signalfx access token (#3294)
• newrelic exporter: Update error conditions (#3322)

v0.25.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.25.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• kafkametricsreceiver new receiver component for collecting metrics about a kafka cluster - primarily lag and offset. configuration instructions
• file_storage extension to read and write data to the local file system (#3087)

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• newrelic exporter (#3091):
  • Removal of common attributes (use opentelemetry collector resource processor to add attributes)
  • Drop support for cumulative metrics being sent to New Relic via a collector

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Update opentelemetry-log-collection to v0.17.0 for log receivers (#3017)
• datadog exporter:
  • Add peer.service priority instead of service.name (#2817)
  • Improve support of semantic conventions for K8s, Azure and ECS (#2623)
• Improve and batch logs translation for stanza (#2892)
• statsd receiver: Add timing/histogram as OTLP gauge (#2973)
• honeycomb exporter: Add Retry and Queue settings (#2714)
• resourcedetection processor:
  • Add AKS resource detector (#3035)
  • Use conventions package constants for ECS detector (#3171)
• sumologic exporter: Add graphite format (#2695)
• Add trace attributes to the log entry for stanza (#3018)
• splunk_hec exporter: Send log record name as part of the HEC log event (#3119)
• newrelic exporter (#3091):
  • Add support for logs
  • Performance improvements
  • Optimizations to the New Relic payload to reduce payload size
  • Metrics generated for monitoring the exporter
  • Insert Key vs License keys are auto-detected in some cases
  • Collector version information is properly extracted via the application start info parameters

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• splunk_hec exporter: Fix sending log payload with missing the GZIP footer (#3032)
• awsxray exporter: Remove propagation of error on shutdown (#2999)
• resourcedetection processor:
  • Correctly report DRAGONFLYBSD value (#3100)
  • Fallback to os.Hostname when FQDN is not available (#3099)
• httpforwarder extension: Do not report ErrServerClosed when shutting down the service (#3173)
• collectd receiver: Do not report ErrServerClosed when shutting down the service (#3178)

v0.24.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.24.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• fluentbit extension and fluentforward receiver moved from opentelemetry-collector

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Check NO_WINDOWS_SERVICE environment variable to force interactive mode on Windows (#2819)
• resourcedetection processor:
  • Add task revision to ECS resource detector (#2814)
  • Add GKE detector (#2821)
  • Add Amazon EKS detector (#2820)
  • Add VMScaleSetName field to Azure detector (#2890)
• awsemf exporter:
  • Add parse_json_encoded_attr_values config option to decode json-encoded strings in attribute values (#2827)
  • Add output_destination config option to support AWS Lambda (#2720)
• googlecloud exporter: Handle cloud.availability_zone semantic convention (#2893)
• newrelic exporter: Add instrumentation.provider to default attributes (#2900)
• Set unprivileged user to container image (#2925)
• splunkhec exporter: Add max_content_length_logs config option to send log data in payloads less than max content length (#2524)
• k8scluster and kubeletstats receiver: Replace package constants in favor of constants from conventions in core (#2996)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• spanmetrics processor:
  • Rename calls metric to calls_total and set IsMonotonic to true (#2837)
  • Validate duplicate dimensions at start (#2844)
• awsemf exporter: Calculate delta instead of rate for cumulative metrics (#2512)
• signalfx exporter:
  • Remove more unnecessary translation rules (#2889)
  • Implement summary type (#2998)
• awsxray exporter: Remove translation to HTTP status from OC status (#2978)
• awsprometheusremotewrite exporter: Close HTTP body after RoundTrip (#2955)
• splunkhec exporter: Add ResourceAttributes to Splunk Event (#2843)

v0.23.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.23.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• groupbyattrs processor to group the records by provided attributes
• dotnetdiagnostics receiver to read metrics from .NET processes

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• stackdriver exporter marked as deprecated and renamed to googlecloud
• Change the rule expression in receiver creator for matching endpoints types from type.port, type.hostport and type.pod to type == "port", type == "hostport" and type == "pod" (#2661)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• loadbalancing exporter: Add support for logs (#2470)
• sumologic exporter: Add carbon formatter (#2562)
• awsecscontainermetrics receiver: Add new metric for stopped container (#2383)
• awsemf exporter:
  • Send EMF logs in batches (#2572)
  • Add prometheus type field for CloudWatch compatibility (#2689)
• signalfx exporter:
  • Add resource attributes to events (#2631)
  • Add translation rule to drop dimensions (#2660)
  • Remove temporary host translation workaround (#2652)
  • Remove unnecessary default translation rules (#2672)
  • Update exclude_metrics option so that the default exclude rules can be overridden by setting the option to [] (#2737)
• awsprometheusremotewrite exporter: Add support for given IAM roles (#2675)
• statsd receiver: Change to use OpenTelemetry type instead of OpenCensus type (#2733)
• resourcedetection processor: Add missing entries for cloud.infrastructure_service (#2777)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• dynatrace exporter: Serialize each datapoint into separate line (#2618)
• splunkhec exporter: Retain all otel attributes (#2712)
• newrelic exporter: Fix default metric URL (#2739)
• googlecloud exporter: Add host.name label if hostname is present in node (#2711)

v0.22.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.22.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• filelog receiver to tail and parse logs from files using the opentelemetry-log-collection library

💡 Enhancements 💡

• dynatrace exporter: Send metrics to Dynatrace in chunks of 1000 (#2468)
• k8s processor: Add ability to associate metadata tags using pod UID rather than just IP (#2199)
• signalfx exporter:
  • Add statusCode to logging field on dimension client (#2459)
  • Add translation rules for cpu.utilization_per_core (#2540)
  • Updates to metadata handling (#2531)
  • Calculate extra network I/O metrics (#2553)
  • Calculate extra disk I/O metrics (#2557)
• statsd receiver: Add metric type label and enable_metric_type option (#2466)
• sumologic exporter: Add support for carbon2 format (#2562)
• resourcedetection processor: Add Azure detector (#2372)
• k8scluster receiver: Use OTel conventions for metadata (#2530)
• newrelic exporter: Multi-tenant support for sending trace data and performance enhancements (#2481)
• stackdriver exporter: Enable retry_on_failure and sending_queue options (#2613)
• Use standard way to convert from time.Time to proto Timestamp (#2548)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• signalfx exporter:
  • Fix calculation of network.total metric (#2551)
  • Correctly convert dimensions on metadata updates (#2552)
• awsxray exporter and receiver: Fix the type of content_length (#2539)
• resourcedetection processor: Use values in accordance to semantic conventions for AWS (#2556)
• awsemf exporter: Fix concurrency issue (#2571)

v0.21.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.21.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• loki exporter to export data via HTTP to Loki

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• signalfx exporter: Allow periods to be sent in dimension keys (#2456). Existing users who do not want to change this functionality can set nonalphanumeric_dimension_chars to _-

💡 Enhancements 💡

• awsemf exporter:
  • Support unit customization before sending logs to AWS CloudWatch (#2318)
  • Group exported metrics by labels (#2317)
• datadog exporter: Add basic span events support (#2338)
• alibabacloudlogservice exporter: Support new metrics interface (#2280)
• sumologic exporter:
  • Enable metrics pipeline (#2117)
  • Add support for all types of log body (#2380)
• signalfx exporter: Add nonalphanumeric_dimension_chars config option (#2442)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• resourcedetection processor: Fix resource attribute environment variable (#2378)
• k8scluster receiver: Fix nil pointer bug (#2450)

v0.20.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.20.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• spanmetrics processor to aggregate Request, Error and Duration (R.E.D) metrics from span data
• awsxray receiver to accept spans in the X-Ray Segment format
• groupbyattrs processor to group the records by provided attributes

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Rename kinesis exporter to awskinesis (#2234)
• signalfx exporter: Remove send_compatible_metrics option, use translation_rules instead (#2267)
• datadog exporter: Remove default prefix from user metrics (#2308)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• signalfx exporter: Add k8s metrics to default excludes (#2167)
• stackdriver exporter: Reduce QPS (#2191)
• datadog exporter:
  • Translate otel exceptions to DataDog errors (#2195)
  • Use resource attributes for metadata and generated metrics (#2023)
• sapm exporter: Enable queuing by default (#1224)
• dynatrace exporter: Allow underscores anywhere in metric or dimension names (#2219)
• awsecscontainermetrics receiver: Handle stopped container's metadata (#2229)
• awsemf exporter: Enhance metrics batching in AWS EMF logs (#2271)
• f5cloud exporter: Add User-Agent header with version to requests (#2292)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• signalfx exporter: Reinstate network/filesystem translation rules (#2171)

v0.19.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.19.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• f5cloud exporter to export metric, trace, and log data to F5 Cloud
• jmx receiver to report metrics from a target MBean server in conjunction with the JMX Metric Gatherer

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• signalfx exporter: The exclude_metrics option now takes slice of metric filters instead of just metric names (slice of strings) (#1951)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• datadog exporter: Sanitize datadog service names (#1982)
• awsecscontainermetrics receiver: Add more metadata (#2011)
• azuremonitor exporter: Favor RPC over HTTP spans (#2006)
• awsemf exporter: Always use float64 as calculated rate (#2019)
• splunkhec receiver: Make the HEC receiver path configurable, and use /* by default (#2137)
• signalfx exporter:
  • Drop non-default metrics and add include_metrics option to override (#2145, #2146, #2162)
  • Rename system.network.dropped_packets metric to system.network.dropped (#2160)
  • Do not filter cloud attributes from dimensions (#2020)
• redis receiver: Migrate to pdata metrics #1889

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• datadog exporter: Ensure that version tag is added to trace stats (#2010)
• loadbalancing exporter: Rolling update of collector can stop the periodical check of DNS updates (#1798)
• awsecscontainermetrics receiver: Change the type of exit_code from string to int and deal with the situation when there is no data (#2147)
• groupbytrace processor: Make onTraceReleased asynchronous to fix processor overload (#1808)
• Handle cases where the time field of Splunk HEC events is encoded as a String (#2159)

v0.18.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.18.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• sumologic exporter to send logs and metrics data to Sumo Logic
• dynatrace exporter to send metrics to Dynatrace

💡 Enhancements 💡

• datadog exporter:
  • Add resource attributes to tags conversion feature (#1782)
  • Add Kubernetes conventions for hostnames (#1919)
  • Add container tags to datadog export for container infra metrics in service view (#1895)
  • Update resource naming and span naming (#1861)
  • Add environment variables support for config options (#1897)
• awsxray exporter: Add parsing of JavaScript stack traces (#1888)
• elastic exporter: Translate exception span events (#1858)
• signalfx exporter: Add translation rules to aggregate per core CPU metrics in default translations (#1841)
• resourcedetection processor: Gather tags associated with the EC2 instance and add them as resource attributes (#1899)
• simpleprometheus receiver: Add support for passing params to the prometheus scrape config (#1949)
• azuremonitor exporter: Implement Span status code specification changes - gRPC (#1960)
• metricstransform processor: Add grouping option ($1887)
• alibabacloudlogservice exporter: Use producer to send data to improve performance (#1981)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• datadog exporter: Handle monotonic metrics client-side (#1805)
• awsxray exporter: Log error when translating span (#1809)

v0.17.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.17.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

💡 Enhancements 💡

• awsemf exporter: Add collector version to EMF exporter user agent (#1778)
• signalfx exporter: Add configuration for trace correlation (#1795)
• statsd receiver: Add support for metric aggregation (#1670)
• datadog exporter: Improve logging of hostname detection (#1796)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• resourcedetection processor: Fix ecs detector to not use the default golang logger (#1745)
• signalfx receiver: Return 200 when receiver succeed (#1785)
• datadog exporter: Use a singleton for sublayer calculation (#1759)
• awsxray and awsemf exporters: Change the User-Agent content order (#1791)

v0.16.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.16.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• honeycomb exporter: Update to use internal data format (#1689)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• newrelic exporter: Add support for span events (#1643)
• awsemf exporter:
  • Add placeholder support in log_group_name and log_stream_name config (#1623, #1661)
  • Add label matching filtering rule (#1619)
• resourcedetection processor: Add new resource detector for AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments (#1585)
• loadbalancing exporter:
  • Add sort of endpoints in static resolver (#1692)
  • Allow specifying port when using DNS resolver (#1650)
• Add batchperresourceattr helper library that splits an incoming data based on an attribute in the resource (#1694)
• alibabacloudlogservice exporter:
  • Add logs exporter (#1609)
  • Change trace type from opencensus to opentelemetry (#1713)
• datadog exporter:
  • Improve trace exporter performance (#1706, #1707)
  • Add option to only send metadata (#1723)
• awsxray exporter:
  • Add parsing of Python stack traces (#1676)
  • Add collector version to user agent (#1730)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• loadbalancing exporter:
  • Fix retry queue for exporters (#1687)
  • Fix periodicallyResolve for DNS resolver checks (#1678)
• datadog exporter: Fix status code handling (#1691)
• awsxray exporter:
  • Fix empty traces in X-Ray console (#1709)
  • Stricter requirements for adding http request url (#1729)
  • Fix status code handling for errors/faults (#1740)
• signalfx exporter:
  • Split incoming data requests by access token before enqueuing (#1727)
  • Disable retry on 400 and 401, retry with backoff on 429 and 503 (#1672)
• awsecscontainermetrics receiver: Improve error handling to fix seg fault (#1738)

v0.15.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.15.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• zookeeper receiver: Collects metrics from a Zookeeper instance using the mntr command
• loadbalacing exporter: Consistently exports spans belonging to the same trace to the same backend
• windowsperfcounters receiver: Captures the configured system, application, or custom performance counter data from the Windows registry using the PDH interface
• awsprometheusremotewrite exporter: Sends metrics data in Prometheus TimeSeries format to a Prometheus Remote Write Backend and signs each outgoing HTTP request following the AWS Signature Version 4 signing process

💡 Enhancements 💡

• awsemf exporter:
  • Add metric_declarations config option for metric filtering and dimensions (#1503)
  • Add SummaryDataType and remove Min/Max from Histogram (#1584)
• signalfxcorrelation exporter: Add ability to translate host dimension (#1561)
• newrelic exporter: Use pdata instead of the OpenCensus for traces (#1587)
• metricstransform processor:
  • Add combine action for matched metrics (#1506)
  • Add submatch_case config option to specify case of matched label values (#1640)
• awsecscontainermetrics receiver: Extract cluster name from ARN (#1626)
• elastic exporter: Improve handling of span status if the status code is unset (#1591)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• awsemf exporter: Add check for unhandled metric data types (#1493)
• groupbytrace processor: Make buffered channel to avoid goroutines leak (#1505)
• stackdriver exporter: Set options.UserAgent so that the OpenCensus exporter does not override the UA ($1620)

v0.14.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.14.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• datadog exporter to send metric and trace data to Datadog (#1352)
• tailsampling processor moved from core to contrib (#1383)

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• jmxmetricsextension migrated to jmxreceiver (#1182, #1357)
• Move signalfx correlation code out of sapm to signalfxcorrelation exporter (#1376)
• Move Splunk specific utils outside of common (#1306)
• stackdriver exporter:
  • Config options metric_prefix & skip_create_metric_descriptor are now nested under metric, see README.
  • Trace status codes no longer reflect gRPC codes as per spec changes: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#1067
• datadog exporter: Remove option to change the namespace prefix (#1483)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• splunkhec receiver: Add ability to ingest metrics (#1276)
• signalfx receiver: Improve pipeline error handling (#1329)
• datadog exporter:
  • Improve hostname resolution (#1285)
  • Add flushing/export of traces and trace-related statistics (#1266)
  • Enable traces on Windows (#1340)
  • Send otel.exporter running metric (#1354)
  • Add tag normalization util method (#1373)
  • Send host metadata (#1351)
  • Support resource conventions for hostnames (#1434)
  • Add version tag extract (#1449)
• Add batchpertrace library to split the incoming batch into several batches, one per trace (#1257)
• statsd receiver:
  • Add timer support (#1335)
  • Add sample rate support for counter, transfer gauge to double and transfer counter to int only (#1361)
• awsemf exporter: Restructure metric translator logic (#1353)
• resourcedetection processor:
  • Add EC2 hostname attribute (#1324)
  • Add ECS Resource detector (#1360)
• sapm exporter: Add queue settings (#1390)
• metrictransform processor: Add metric filter option (#1447)
• awsxray exporter: Improve ECS attribute and origin translation (#1428)
• resourcedetection processor: Initial system detector (#1405)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Remove duplicate definition of cloud providers with core conventions (#1288)
• kubeletstats receiver: Handle nil references from the kubelet API (#1326)
• awsxray receiver:
  • Add kind type to root span to fix the empty parentID problem (#1338)
  • Fix the race condition issue (#1490)
• awsxray exporter:
  • Setting the tlsconfig InsecureSkipVerify using NoVerifySSL (#1350)
  • Drop invalid xray trace id (#1366)
• elastic exporter: Ensure span name is limited (#1371)
• splunkhec exporter: Don't send 'zero' timestamps to Splunk HEC (#1157)
• stackdriver exporter: Skip processing empty metrics slice (#1494)

v0.13.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.13.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

💡 Enhancements 💡

• sapm exporter:
  • Enable queuing by default (#1224)
  • Add SignalFx APM correlation (#1205)
  • Make span source attribute and destination dimension names configurable (#1286)
• signalfx exporter:
  • Pass context to the http client requests (#1225)
  • Update disk.summary_utilization translation rule to accommodate new labels (#1258)
• newrelic exporter: Add span.kind attribute (#1263)
• datadog exporter:
  • Add Datadog trace translation helpers (#1208)
  • Add API key validation (#1216)
• splunkhec receiver: Add the ability to ingest logs (#1268)
• awscontainermetrics receiver: Report CpuUtilized metric in percentage (#1283)
• awsemf exporter: Only calculate metric rate for cumulative counter and avoid SingleDimensionRollup for metrics with only one dimension (#1280)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Make signalfx exporter a metadata exporter (#1252)
• awsecscontainermetrics receiver: Check for empty network rate stats and set zero (#1260)
• awsemf exporter: Remove InstrumentationLibrary dimension in CloudWatch EMF Logs if it is undefined (#1256)
• awsxray receiver: Fix trace/span id transfer (#1264)
• datadog exporter: Remove trace support for Windows for now (#1274)
• sapm exporter: Correlation enabled check inversed (#1278)

v0.12.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.12.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• awsemf exporter to support exporting metrics to AWS CloudWatch (#498, #1169)
• http_forwarder extension that forwards HTTP requests to a specified target (#979, #1014, #1150)
• datadog exporter that sends metric and trace data to Datadog (#1142, #1178, #1181, #1212)
• awsecscontainermetrics receiver to collect metrics from Amazon ECS Task Metadata Endpoint (#1089, #1148, #1160)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• signalfx exporter:
  • Add host metadata synchronization (#1039, #1118)
  • Add copy_dimensions translator option (#1126)
  • Update k8s_cluster metric translations (#1121)
  • Add option to exclude metrics (#1156)
  • Add avg aggregation method (#1151)
  • Fallback to host if cloud resource id not found (#1170)
  • Add backwards compatible translation rules for the dockerstatsreceiver (#1201)
  • Enable queuing and retries (#1223)
• splunkhec exporter:
  • Add log support (#875)
  • Enable queuing and retries (#1222)
• k8scluster receiver: Standardize metric names (#1119)
• awsxray exporter:
  • Support AWS EKS attributes (#1090)
  • Store resource attributes in X-Ray segments (#1174)
• honeycomb exporter:
  • Add span kind to the event sent to Honeycomb (#474)
  • Add option to adjust the sample rate using an attribute on the span (#1162)
• jmxmetrics extension: Add subprocess manager to manage child java processes (#1028)
• elastic exporter: Initial metrics support (#1173)
• k8s processor: Rename default attr names for label/annotation extraction (#1214)
• Add common SignalFx host id extraction (#1100)
• Allow MSI upgrades (#1165)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• awsxray exporter: Don't set origin to EC2 when not on AWS (#1115)

v0.11.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.11.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• add dockerstats receiver as top level component (#1081)
• add tracegen utility (#956)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• stackdriver exporter: Allow overriding client options via config (#1010)
• k8scluster receiver: Ensure informer caches are synced before initial data sync (#842)
• elastic exporter: Translate deployment.environment resource attribute to Elastic APM's semantically equivalent service.environment (#1022)
• k8s processor: Add logs support (#1051)
• awsxray exporter: Log response error with zap (#1050)
• signalfx exporter
  • Add dimensions to renamed metrics (#1041)
  • Add translation rules for disk_ops.total and disk_ops.pending metrics (#1082)
  • Add event support (#1036)
• kubeletstats receiver: Cache detailed PVC labels to reduce API calls (#1052)
• signalfx receiver: Add event support (#1035)

v0.10.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.10.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• add initial docker stats receiver, without sourcing in top level components (#495)
• add initial jmx metrics extension structure, without sourcing in top level components (#740)
• routing processor for routing spans based on HTTP headers (#907)
• splunkhec receiver to receive Splunk HEC metrics, traces and logs (#840)
• Add skeleton for http_forwarder extension that forwards HTTP requests to a specified target (#979)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• stackdriver exporter
  • Add timeout parameter (#835)
  • Add option to configurably set UserAgent string (#758)
• signalfx exporter
  • Reduce memory allocations for big batches processing (#871)
  • Add AWSUniqueId and gcp_id generation (#829)
  • Calculate cpu.utilization compatibility metric (#839, #974, #954)
• metricstransform processor: Replace {{version}} in label values (#876)
• resourcedetection processor: Logs Support (#970)
• statsd receiver: Add parsing for labels and gauges (#903)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• k8s processor
  • Wrap metrics before sending further down the pipeline (#837)
  • Fix setting attributes on metrics passed from agent (#836)
• awsxray exporter: Fix "pointer to empty string" is not omitted bug (#830)
• azuremonitor exporter: Treat UNSPECIFIED span kind as INTERNAL (#844)
• signalfx exporter: Remove misleading warnings (#869)
• newrelic exporter: Fix panic if service name is empty (#969)
• honeycomb exporter: Don't emit default proc id + starttime (#972)

v0.9.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.9.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Remove deprecated lightstep exporter (#828)

🚀 New components 🚀

• statsd receiver for ingesting StatsD messages (#566)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• signalfx exporter
  • Add disk usage translations (#760)
  • Add disk utilization translations (#782)
  • Add translation rule to drop redundant metrics (#809)
• kubeletstats receiver
  • Sync available volume metadata from /pods endpoint (#690)
  • Add ability to collect detailed data from PVC (#743)
• awsxray exporter: Translate SDK name/version into xray model (#755)
• elastic exporter: Translate semantic conventions to Elastic destination fields (#671)
• stackdriver exporter: Add point count metric (#757)
• awsxray receiver
  • Ported the TCP proxy from the X-Ray daemon (#774)
  • Convert to OTEL trace format (#691)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• kubeletstats receiver: Do not break down metrics batch (#754)
• host observer: Fix issue on darwin where ports listening on all interfaces are not correctly accounted for (#582)
• newrelic exporter: Fix panic on missing span status (#775)

v0.8.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.8.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• Receivers
  • prometheusexec subprocess manager (##499)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• signalfx exporter
  • Add/Update metric translations (#579, #584, #639, #640, #652, #662)
  • Add support for calculate new metric translator (#644)
  • Add renaming rules for load metrics (#664)
  • Update container.name to k8s.container.name in default translation rule (#683)
  • Rename working-set and page-fault metrics (#679)
• awsxray exporter
  • Translate exception event into xray exception (#577)
  • Add ingestion of X-Ray segments via UDP (#502)
  • Parse Java stacktrace and populate in xray cause (#687)
• kubeletstats receiver
  • Add metric_groups option (#648)
  • Set datapoint timestamp in receiver (#661)
  • Change container.name label to k8s.container.name (#680)
  • Add working-set and page-fault metrics (#666)
  • Add basic support for volume metrics (#667)
• stackdriver trace exporter: Move to new interface and pdata (#486)
• metricstranform processor: Keep timeseries and points in order after aggregation (#663)
• k8scluster receiver: Change container.spec.name label to k8s.container.name (#681)
• Migrate receiver creator to internal data model (#701)
• Add ec2 support to resourcedetection processor (#587)
• Enable timeout, sending queue and retry for SAPM exporter (#707)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• azuremonitor exporter: Correct HTTP status code success mapping (#588)
• k8scluster receiver: Fix owner reference in metadata updates (#649)
• awsxray exporter: Fix handling of db system (#697)

🚀 New components 🚀

• Skeleton for AWS ECS container metrics receiver (#463)
• prometheus_exec receiver (#655)

v0.7.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.7.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• awsxray receiver updated to support udp: tcp_endpoint config option renamed to endpoint (#497)
• TLS config changed for sapmreceiver (#488) and signalfxreceiver receivers (#488)

🚀 New components 🚀

• Exporters
  • sentry adds tracing exporter for Sentry (#565)
• Extensions
  • endpoints observer: adds generic endpoint watcher (#427)
  • host observer: looks for listening network endpoints on host (#432)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Update honeycomb exporter for v0.8.0 compatibility
• Extend metricstransform processor to be able to add a label to an existing metric (#441)
• Update kubeletstats metrics according to semantic conventions (#475)
• Updated awsxray receiver config to use udp (#497)
• Add /pods endpoint support in kubeletstats receiver to add extra labels (#569)
• Add metric translation options to signalfx exporter (#477, #501, #571, #573)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• azuremonitor exporter: Mark spanToEnvelope errors as permanent (#500)

v0.6.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.6.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Removed jaegarlegacy (#397) and zipkinscribe receivers (#410)
• kubeletstats receiver: Renamed k8s.pod.namespace pod label to k8s.namespace.name and k8s.container.name container label to container.name

🚀 New components 🚀

• Processors
  • metricstransform renames/aggregates within individual metrics (#376) and allow changing the data type between int and float (#402)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• awsxray exporter: Use peer.service as segment name when set. (#385)
• splunk exporter: Add trace exports support (#359, #399)
• Build and publish Windows MSI (#408) and DEB/RPM Linux packages (#405)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• kubeletstats receiver:
  • Fixed NPE for newly created pods (#404)
  • Updated to latest change in the ReceiverFactoryOld interface (#401)
  • Fixed logging and self reported metrics (#357)
• awsxray exporter: Only convert SQL information for SQL databases. (#379)
• resourcedetection processor: Correctly obtain machine-type info from gce metadata (#395)
• k8scluster receiver: Fix container resource metrics (#416)

v0.5.0

Released 01-07-2020

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.5.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• Processors
  • resourcedetection to automatically detect the resource based on the configured set of detectors (#309)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• kubeletstats receiver: Support for ServiceAccount authentication (#324)
• signalfx exporter and receiver
  • Add SignalFx metric token passthrough and config option (#325)
  • Set default endpoint of signalfx receiver to :9943 (#351)
• awsxray exporter: Support aws plugins EC2/ECS/Beanstalk (#343)
• sapm exporter and receiver: Add SAPM access token passthrough and config option (#349)
• k8s processor: Add metrics support (#358)
• k8s observer: Separate annotations from labels in discovered pods (#363)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• honeycomb exporter: Remove shared use of libhoney from goroutines (#305)

v0.4.0

Released 17-06-2020

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.4.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• signalfx exporter url parameter changed to ingest_url (no impact if only using realm setting)

🚀 New components 🚀

• Receivers
  • receiver_creator to create receivers at runtime (#145), add observer support to receiver_creator (#173), add rules support (#207), add dynamic configuration values (#235)
  • kubeletstats receiver (#237)
  • prometheus_simple receiver (#184)
  • kubernetes-cluster receiver (#175)
  • redis receiver (#138)
• Exporters
  • alibabacloudlogservice exporter (#259)
  • SplunkHEC metrics exporter (#246)
  • elastic APM exporter (#240)
  • newrelic exporter (#229)
• Extensions
  • k8s observer (#185)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• awsxray exporter
  • Use X-Ray convention of segment name == service name (#282)
  • Tweak xray export to improve rendering of traces and improve parity (#241)
  • Add handling for spans received with nil attributes (#212)
• honeycomb exporter
  • Use SendPresampled (#291)
  • Add span attributes as honeycomb event fields (#271)
  • Support resource labels in Honeycomb exporter (#20)
• k8s processor
  • Add support of Pod UID extraction to k8sprocessor (#219)
  • Use k8s.pod.ip to record resource IP instead of just ip (#183)
  • Support same authentication mechanism as other kubernetes components do (#307)
• sapm exporter: Add TLS for SAPM and SignalFx receiver (#215)
• signalfx exporter
  • Add metric metadata syncer to SignalFx exporter (#231)
  • Add TLS for SAPM and SignalFx receiver (#215)
• stackdriver exporter: Add support for resource mapping in config (#163)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• awsxray exporter: Wrap bad request errors for proper handling by retry queue (#205)
• lightstep exporter: Ensure Lightstep exporter doesnt crash on nil node (#250)
• sapm exporter: Do not break Jaeger traces before sending downstream (#193)
• k8s processor: Ensure Jaeger spans work in passthrough mode (262)

🧩 Components 🧩

Receivers

Traces	Metrics
Jaeger Legacy	Carbon
SAPM (SignalFx APM)	Collectd
Zipkin Scribe	K8s Cluster
	Redis
	SignalFx
	Simple Prometheus
	Wavefront

Processors

• K8s

Exporters

Commercial	Community
Alibaba Cloud Log Service	Carbon
AWS X-ray	Elastic
Azure Monitor	Jaeger Thrift
Honeycomb	Kinesis
Lightstep
New Relic
SAPM (SignalFx APM)
SignalFx (Metrics)
Splunk HEC
Stackdriver (Google)

Extensions

• Observer
  • K8s

v0.3.0 Beta

Released 2020-03-30

Breaking changes

• Make prometheus receiver config loading strict. #697 Prometheus receiver will now fail fast if the config contains unused keys in it.

Changes and fixes

• Enable best effort serve by default of Prometheus Exporter (orijtech/prometheus-go-metrics-exporter#6)
• Fix null pointer exception in the logging exporter #743
• Remove unnecessary condition to have at least one processor #744
• Updated Honeycomb exported to honeycombio/opentelemetry-exporter-go v0.3.1

Features

Receivers / Exporters:

• AWS X-Ray
• Carbon
• CollectD
• Honeycomb
• Jaeger
• Kinesis
• LightStep
• OpenCensus
• OpenTelemetry
• SAPM
• SignalFx
• Stackdriver
• Wavefront
• Zipkin
• Zipkin Scribe

Processors:

• Attributes
• Batch
• Memory Limiter
• Queued Retry
• Resource
• Sampling
• Span
• Kubernetes

Extensions:

• Health Check
• Performance Profiler
• zPages

v0.2.8

Released 2020-03-25

Alpha v0.2.8 of OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib.

• Implemented OTLP receiver and exporter.
• Added ability to pass config to the service programmatically (useful for custom builds).
• Improved own metrics / observability.

v0.2.7

Released 2020-03-17

Self-Observability

• New command-line switch to control legacy and new metrics. Users are encouraged to experiment and migrate to the new metrics.
• Improved error handling on shutdown.

Processors

• Fixed passthrough mode k8sprocessor.
• Added HASH action to attribute processor.

Receivers and Exporters

• Added Honeycomb exporter.
• Added LightStep exporter.
• Added regular expression for Carbon receiver, allowing the metric name to be broken into proper label keys and values.
• Updated Stackdriver exporter to use a new batch API.

v0.2.6 Alpha

Released 2020-02-18

Self-Observability

• Updated metrics prefix to otelcol and expose command line argument to modify the prefix value.
• Batch dropped span now emits zero when no spans are dropped.

Processors

• Extended Span processor to have include/exclude span logic.
• Ability to choose strict or regexp matching for include/exclude filters.

Receivers and Exporters

• Added Carbon receiver and exporter.
• Added Wavefront receiver.

v0.0.5 Alpha

Released 2020-01-30

• Regexp-based filtering of span names.
• Ability to extract attributes from span names and rename span.
• File exporter for debugging.
• Span processor is now enabled by default.

v0.0.1 Alpha

Released 2020-01-11

First release of OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib.