v0.44.0

v0.44.0

💡 Enhancements 💡

• dynatraceexporter: Write error logs using plugin logger (#7360)
• dynatraceexporter: Fix docs for TLS settings (#7568)
• tanzuobservabilityexporter: Turn on metrics exporter (#7281)
• attributesprocessor resourceprocessor: Add from_context value source
• resourcedetectionprocessor: check cluster config to verify resource is on aws for eks resources (#7186)
• awscloudwatchlogsexporter: enable awscloudwatchlogsexporter which accepts and exports log data (#7297)
• translator/prometheusremotewrite: add a new module to help translate data from OTLP to Prometheus Remote Write (#7240)
• jmxreceiver: Added additional_jars configuration option to launch JMX Metric Gatherer JAR with extended CLASSPATH (#7378)
• awscontainerinsightreceiver: add full pod name when configured to AWS Container Insights Receiver (#7415)
• hostreceiver/loadscraper: Migrate the scraper to the mdatagen metrics builder (#7288)
• awsecscontainermetricsreceiver: Rename attributes to follow semantic conventions (#7425)
• datadogexporter: Always map conventional attributes to tags (#7185)
• mysqlreceiver: Add golden files for integration test (#7303)
• nginxreceiver: Standardize integration test (#7515)
• mysqlreceiver: Update to use mdatagen v2 (#7507)
• postgresqlreceiver: Add integration tests (#7501)
• apachereceiver: Add integration test (#7517)
• mysqlreceiver: Use scrapererror to report errors (#7513)
• postgresreceiver: Update to mdatagen v2 (#7503)
• nginxreceiver: Update to mdatagen v2 (#7549)
• datadogexporter: Fix traces exporter's initialization log (#7564)
• tailsamplingprocessor: Add And sampling policy (#6910)
• coralogixexporter: Add Coralogix Exporter (#7383)
• prometheusexecreceiver: Add default value for scrape_timeout option (#7587)

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• resourcedetectionprocessor: Update os.type attribute values according to semantic conventions (#7544)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• resourcedetectionprocessor: fix meta allow list excluding keys with nil values (#7424)
• postgresqlreceiver: Fix issue where empty metrics could be returned after failed connection (#7502)
• resourcetotelemetry: Ensure resource attributes are added to summary
  and exponential histogram data points. (#7523)

Deprecations

• Deprecated otel_to_hec_fields.name setting from splunkhec exporter. (#7560)

v0.43.0

v0.43.0

Artifacts are now published only from the releases repository: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/tag/v0.43.0

💡 Enhancements 💡

• coralogixexporter: First implementation of Coralogix Exporter (#6816)
• cloudfoundryreceiver: Enable Cloud Foundry client (#7060)
• elasticsearchexporter: add elasticsearchexporter to the components exporter list (#6002)
• elasticsearchreceiver: Add metric metadata (#6892)
• elasticsearchreceiver: Use same metrics as JMX receiver for JVM metrics (#7160)
• elasticsearchreceiver: Implement scraping logic (#7174)
• datadogexporter: Add http.status_code tag to trace stats (#6889)
• datadogexporter: Add configuration option to use OTel span name into the Datatog resource name (#6611)
• mongodbreceiver: Add initial client code to the component (#7125)
• tanzuobservabilityexporter: Support delta histograms (#6897)
• awscloudwatchlogsexporter: Use cwlogs package to export logs (#7152)
• mysqlreceiver: Add the receiver to available components (#7078)
• tanzuobservabilityexporter: Documentation for the memory_limiter configuration (#7164)
• dynatraceexporter: Do not shut down exporter when metrics ingest module is temporarily unavailable (#7161)
• mongodbreceiver: Add metric metadata (#7163)
• mongodbreceiver: Add metric scraping (#7175)
• postgresqlreceiver: add the receiver to available components (#7079)
• rabbitmqreceiver: Add scraper logic (#7299)
• tanzuobservability exporter: Support summary metrics (#7121)
• mongodbatlasreceiver: Add retry and backoff to HTTP client (#6943)
• Use Jaeger gRPC instead of Thrift in the docker-compose example (#7243)
• tanzuobservabilityexporter: Support exponential histograms (#7127)
• receiver_creator: Log added and removed endpoint env structs (#7248)
• prometheusreceiver: Use the OTLP data conversion path by default. (#7282)
  • Use --feature-gates=-receiver.prometheus.OTLPDirect to re-enable the
    OpenCensus conversion path.
• extension/observers: Correctly set image and tag on container endpoints (#7279)
• tanzuobservabilityexporter: Document how to enable memory_limiter (#7286)
• hostreceiver/networkscraper: Migrate the scraper to the mdatagen metrics builder (#7048)
• hostmetricsreceiver: Add MuteProcessNameError config flag to mute specific error reading process executable (#7176)
• scrapertest: Improve comparison logic (#7305)
• hostmetricsreceiver: add cpu_average option for load scraper to report the average cpu load (#6999)
• scrapertest: Add comparison option to ignore specific attributes (#6519)
• tracegen: Add option to pass in custom headers to export calls via command line (#7308)
• tracegen: Provide official container images (#7179)

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• tanzuobservabilityexporter: Remove status.code
• tanzuobservabilityexporter: Use semantic conventions for status.message (#7126)
• k8sattributesprocessor: Move kube and observability packages to internal folder (#7159)
• k8sattributesprocessor: Unexport processor Options (#7311)
• zookeeperreceiver: Refactored metrics to have correct units, types, and combined some metrics via attributes. (#7280)
• prometheusremotewriteexporter: PRWExporter struct and NewPRWExporter()
  function are now unexported. (#TBD)
• newrelicexporter marked as deprecated (#7284)

🚀 New components 🚀

• rabbitmqreceiver: Establish codebase for RabbitMQ metrics receiver (#7239)
• Add basicauth extension (#7167)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• k8sattributeprocessor: Parse IP out of net.Addr to correctly tag k8s.pod.ip (#7077)
• k8sattributeprocessor: Process IP correctly for net.Addr instances that are not typed (#7133)
• mdatagen: Fix validation of enabled field in metadata.yaml (#7166)
• elasticsearch: Fix timestamp for each metric being startup time (#7255)
• resourcedetection: Log the error when checking for ec2metadata availability (#7296)

v0.42.0

v0.42.0

💡 Enhancements 💡

• couchdbreceiver: Add couchdb client (#6880)
• elasticsearchreceiver: Implement scraper client (#7019)
• prometheusremotewriteexporter: Handling Staleness flag from OTLP (#6679)
• prometheusexporter: Handling Staleness flag from OTLP (#6805)
• prometheusreceiver: Set OTLP no-data-present flag for stale scraped metrics. (#7043)
• mysqlreceiver: Add Integration test (#6916)
• datadogexporter: Add compatibility with ECS Fargate semantic conventions (#6670)
• k8s_observer: discover k8s.node endpoints (#6820)
• redisreceiver: Add missing description fields to keyspace metrics (#6940)
• redisreceiver: Set start timestamp uniformly for gauge and sum metrics (#6941)
• kafkaexporter: Allow controlling Kafka acknowledgment behaviour (#6301)
• lokiexporter: Log the first part of the http body on failed pushes to loki (#6946)

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• memcachedreceiver: Update metric names (#6594)
• memcachedreceiver: Fix some metric units and value types (#6895)
• sapm receiver: Use Jaeger status values instead of OpenCensus (#6682)
• jaeger receiver/exporter: Parse/set Jaeger status with OTel spec values (#6682)
• awsecscontainermetricsreceiver: remove tag from container.image.name (#6436)
• k8sclusterreceiver: remove tag from container.image.name (#6436)

🚀 New components 🚀

• ecs_task_observer: Discover running containers in AWS ECS tasks (#6894)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• ecstaskobserver: Fix "Incorrect conversion between integer types" security issue (#6939)
• Fix typo in "direction" metrics attribute description (#6949)
• zookeeperreceiver: Fix issue where receiver could panic during shutdown (#7020)
• prometheusreceiver: Fix metadata fetching when metrics differ by trimmable suffixes (#6932)
• Sanitize URLs being logged (#7021)
• prometheusreceiver: Fix start time tracking for long scrape intervals (#7053)
• signalfxexporter: Don't use syscall to avoid compilation errors on some platforms (#7062)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• lokiexporter: add complete log record to body (#6619)
• k8sclusterreceiver add container.image.tag attribute (#6436)
• spanmetricproccessor: use an LRU cache for the cached Dimensions key-value pairs (#2179)
• skywalkingexporter: add skywalking metrics exporter (#6528)
• deltatorateprocessor: add int counter support (#6982)
• filestorageextension: document default values (#7022)
• redisreceiver: Migrate the scraper to the mdatagen metrics builder (#6938)

v0.41.0

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• None

🚀 New components 🚀

• asapauthextension (#6627)
• mongodbatlasreceiver (#6367)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• filestorageextension: fix panic when configured directory cannot be accessed (#6103)
• hostmetricsreceiver: fix set of attributes for system.cpu.time metric (#6422)
• k8sobserver: only record pod endpoints for running pods (#5878)
• mongodbatlasreceiver: fix attributes fields in metadata.yaml (#6440)
• prometheusexecreceiver: command line processing on Windows (#6145)
• spanmetricsprocessor: fix exemplars support (#6140)
• Remap arm64 to aarch64 on rpm/deb packages (#6635)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• datadogexporter: do not use attribute localhost-like hostnames (#6477)
• datadogexporter: retry per network call (#6412)
• datadogexporter: take hostname into account for cache (#6223)
• exporter/lokiexporter: adding a feature for loki exporter to encode JSON for log entry (#5846)
• googlecloudspannerreceiver: added fallback to ADC for database connections. (#6629)
• googlecloudspannerreceiver: added parsing only distinct items for sample lock request label. (#6514)
• googlecloudspannerreceiver: added request tag label to metadata config for top query stats. (#6475)
• googlecloudspannerreceiver: added sample lock requests label to the top lock stats metrics. (#6466)
• googlecloudspannerreceiver: added transaction tag label to metadata config for top transaction stats. (#6433)
• groupbyattrsprocessor: added support for metrics signal (#6248)
• hostmetricsreceiver: ensure SchemaURL is set (#6482)
• kubeletstatsreceiver: add support for read-only kubelet endpoint (#6488)
• mysqlreceiver: enable native authentication (#6628)
• mysqlreceiver: remove requirement for password on MySQL (#6479)
• receiver/prometheusreceiver: do not add host.name to metrics from localhost/unspecified targets (#6476)
• spanmetricsprocessor: add setStatus operation (#5886)
• splunkhecexporter: remove duplication of host.name attribute (#6527)
• tanzuobservabilityexporter: add consumer for sum metrics. (#6385)
• Update log-collection library to v0.23.0 (#6593)

v0.40.0

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• tencentcloudlogserviceexporter: change Endpoint to Region to simplify configuration (#6135)

🚀 New components 🚀

• Add memcached receiver (#5839)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Fix token passthrough for HEC (#5435)
• datadogexporter: Fix missing resource attributes default mapping when resource_attributes_as_tags: false (#6359)
• tanzuobservabilityexporter: Log and report missing metric values. (#5835)
• mongodbatlasreceiver: Fix metrics metadata (#6395)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• awsprometheusremotewrite exporter: Improve error message when failing to sign request
• mongodbatlas: add metrics (#5921)
• healthcheckextension: Add path option (#6111)
• Set unprivileged user to container image (#6380)
• k8sclusterreceiver: Add allocatable type of metrics (#6113)
• observiqexporter: Allow Dialer timeout to be configured (#5906)
• routingprocessor: remove broken debug log fields (#6373)
• prometheusremotewriteexporter: Add exemplars support (#5578)

v0.39.0

v0.39.0

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• httpdreceiver renamed to apachereceiver to match industry standards (#6207)

🚀 New components 🚀

• Add postgresqlreceiver config and factory (#6153)
• Add TencentCloud LogService exporter tencentcloudlogserviceexporter (#5722)
• Restore jaegerthrifthttpexporter (#5666)
• Add skywalkingexporter (#5690, #6114)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• datadogexporter: Improve cumulative metrics reset detection using StartTimestamp (#6120)
• mysqlreceiver: Address issues in shutdown function (#6239)
• tailsamplingprocessor: End go routines during shutdown (#5693)
• googlecloudexporter: Update google cloud exporter to correctly close the metric exporter (#5990)
• statsdreceiver: Fix the summary point calculation (#6155)
• datadogexporter Correct default value for send_count_sum_metrics (#6130)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• datadogexporter: Increase default timeout to 15 seconds (#6131)
• googlecloudspannerreceiver: Added metrics cardinality handling for Google Cloud Spanner receiver (#5981, #6148, #6229)
• mysqlreceiver: Mysql add support for different protocols (#6138)
• bearertokenauthextension: Added support of Bearer Auth for HTTP Exporters (#5962)
• awsxrayexporter: Fallback to rpc.method for segment operation when aws.operation missing (#6231)
• healthcheckextension: Add new health check feature for collector pipeline (#5643)
• datadogexporter: Always add current hostname (#5967)
• k8sattributesprocessor: Add code to fetch all annotations and labels by specifying key regex (#5780)
• datadogexporter: Do not rely on collector to resolve envvar when possible to resolve them (#6122)
• datadogexporter: Add container tags to attributes package (#6086)
• datadogexporter: Preserve original TraceID (#6158)
• prometheusreceiver: Enhance prometheus receiver logger to determine errors, test real e2e usage (#5870)
• awsxrayexporter: Added support for AWS AppRunner origin (#6141)

v0.38.0

v0.38.0

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• datadogexporter Make distributions the default histogram export option. (#5885)
• redisreceiver Update Redis receiver's metric names. (#5837)
• Remove scraperhelper from contrib, use the core version. (#5826)

🚀 New components 🚀

• googlecloudspannerreceiver Added implementation of Google Cloud Spanner receiver. (#5727)
• awsxrayproxy Wire up awsxrayproxy extension. (#5747)
• awscontainerinsightreceiver Enable AWS Container Insight receiver. (#5960)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• statsdreceiver: fix start timestamp / temporality for counters. (#5714)
• Fix security issue related to github.com/tidwall/gjson. (#5936)
• datadogexporter Fix cumulative histogram handling in distributions mode (#5867)
• datadogexporter Skip nil sketches (#5925)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Extend kafkareceiver configuration capabilities. (#5677)
• Convert mongodbatlas receiver to use scraperhelper. (#5827)
• Convert dockerstats receiver to use scraperhelper. (#5825)
• Convert podman receiver to use scraperhelper. (#5822)
• Convert redisreceiver to use scraperhelper. (#5796)
• Convert kubeletstats receiver to use scraperhelper. (#5821)
• googlecloudspannerreceiver Migrated Google Cloud Spanner receiver to scraper approach. (#5868)
• datadogexporter Use a Consumer interface for decoupling from zorkian's package. (#5315)
• mdatagen - Add support for extended metric descriptions (#5688)
• signalfxexporter Log datapoints option. (#5689)
• cumulativetodeltaprocessor: Update cumulative to delta. (#5772)
• Update configuration default values in log receivers docs. (#5840)
• fluentforwardreceiver: support more complex fluent-bit objects. (#5676)
• datadogexporter Remove spammy logging. (#5856)
• datadogexporter Remove obsolete report_buckets config. (#5858)
• Improve performance of metric expression matcher. (#5864)
• tanzuobservabilityexporter Introduce metricsConsumer and gaugeMetricConsumer. (#5426)
• awsxrayexporter rpc.system has priority to determine aws namespace. (#5833)
• tailsamplingprocessor Add support for composite sampling policy to the tailsampler. (#4958)
• kafkaexporter Add support for AWS_MSK_IAM SASL Auth (#5763)
• Refactor the client Authenticators for the new "ClientAuthenticator" interfaces (#5905)
• mongodbatlasreceiver Add client wrapper for MongoDB Atlas support (#5386)
• redisreceiver Update Redis config options (#5861)
• routingprocessor: allow routing for all signals (#5869)
• extension/observer/docker add ListAndWatch to observer (#5851)

v0.37.1

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Fixes a problem with v0.37.0 which contained dependencies on v0.36.0 components. They should have been updated to v0.37.0.

v0.37.0

This release is marked as "bad" because of #5768

🚀 New components 🚀

• journald receiver to parse Journald events from systemd journal using the opentelemetry-log-collection library

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Remove squash on configtls.TLSClientSetting for splunkhecexporter (#5541)
• Remove squash on configtls.TLSClientSetting for elastic components (#5539)
• Remove squash on configtls.TLSClientSetting for observiqexporter (#5540)
• Remove squash on configtls.TLSClientSetting for AWS components (#5454)
• Move k8sprocessor to k8sattributesprocessor.
• Rename k8s_tagger configuration k8sattributes.
• filelog receiver: use empty value for SeverityText field instead of "Undefined" (#5423)
• Rename configparser.ConfigMap to config.Map
• Rename pdata.AggregationTemporality* to pdata.MetricAggregationTemporality*
• Remove deprecated batchpertrace package/module (#5380)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• k8sattributes processor: add container metadata enrichment (#5467, #5572)
• resourcedetection processor: Add an option to force using hostname instead of FQDN (#5064)
• dockerstats receiver: Move docker client into new shared internal/docker (#4702)
• spanmetrics processor:
  • Add exemplars to metrics (#5263)
  • Support resource attributes in metrics dimensions (#4624)
• filter processor:
  • Add log filtering by regexp type filters (#5237)
  • Add record level log filtering (#5418)
• dynatrace exporter: Handle non-gauge data types (#5056)
• datadog exporter:
  • Add support for exporting histograms as sketches (#5082)
  • Scrub sensitive information from errors (#5575)
  • Add option to send instrumentation library metadata tags with metrics (#5431)
• podman receiver: Add api_version, ssh_key, and ssh_passphrase config options (#5430)
• signalfx exporter:
  • Add max_connections config option (#5432)
  • Add dimension name to log when value > 256 chars (#5258)
  • Discourage setting of endpoint path (#4851)
• kubeletstats receiver: Convert to pdata instead of using OpenCensus (#5458)
• tailsampling processor: Add invert_match config option to string_attribute policy (#4393)
• awsemf exporter: Add a feature flag in UserAgent for AWS backend to monitor the adoptions (#5178)
• splunkhec exporter: Handle explicitly NaN and Inf values (#5581)
• hostmetrics receiver:
  • Collect more process states in processes scraper (#4856)
  • Add device label to paging scraper (#4854)
• awskinesis exporter: Extend to allow for dynamic export types (#5440)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• datadog exporter:
  • Fix tags on summary and bucket metrics (#5416)
  • Fix cache key generation for cumulative metrics (#5417)
• resourcedetection processor: Fix failure to start collector if at least one detector returns an error (#5242)
• prometheus exporter: Do not record obsreport calls (#5438)
• prometheus receiver: Metric type fixes to match Prometheus functionality (#4865)
• sentry exporter: Fix sentry tracing (#4320)
• statsd receiver: Set quantiles for metrics (#5647)

v0.36.0

v0.36.0

🛑 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)
  • path field on splunkhecreceiver configuration is removed: We removed the path attribute as any request going to the Splunk HEC receiver port should be accepted, and added the raw_path field to explicitly map the path accepting raw HEC data. (#4951)
• feat(dynatrace): tags is deprecated in favor of default_dimensions (#5055)

💡 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 an empty CertPool when the system run environment is windows
• JMX receiver: Allow JMX receiver logging level to be configured (#4898)
• datadog exporter: Export histograms as in OpenMetrics Datadog check (#5065)
• dockerstats receiver: Set Schema URL (#5239)
• Rename memorylimiter -> memorylimiterprocessor (#5262)
• awskinesis exporter: Refactor AWS kinesis exporter to be synchronous (#5248)