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)

Release version 0.26.0

🎉 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)

Release version 0.25.0

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

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)

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Release version 0.23.0

🎉 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)

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Release version 0.22.0

🎉 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)

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v0.21.0

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v0.20.0

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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)

Release version 0.18.0

🎉 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)