Release version 0.19.0

🎉 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)