CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

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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.