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)

Release version 0.17.0

🎉 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)

Release version 0.16.0

🎉 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

Version v0.14.0

Release version 0.13.1

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.13.1 (Beta) 🎉

🚀 New components 🚀

• groupbytraceprocessor processor which was moved from the core to contrib, and the v0.13.0 version missed it.

Release version 0.13.0

🎉 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)

Release version 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)