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)

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
  • Skeleton for AWS ECS container metrics receiver (#463)
  • 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)

OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.7.0 (Beta)

🎉 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)

OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.6.0 (Beta)

🎉 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)

📦 Release bits 📦

• Docker: docker pull otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib:0.6.0
• Binary checksums: Generated with shasum -a 256 * and are present in the checksums.txt file

OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.5.0 (Beta)

🎉 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)

OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.4.0 (Beta)

🎉 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)
• sapm exporter: Add TLS support (#215)
• signalfx exporter
  • Add metric metadata syncer to SignalFx exporter (#231)
  • Add TLS support (#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)

📦 Release bits 📦

• Docker: docker pull otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib:0.4.0
• Binary checksums: Generated with shasum -a 256 bin/* and are present in the checksums.txt file

🧩 Components 🧩

Receivers

Traces	Metrics
Jaeger Legacy	Carbon
SAPM (SignalFx APM)	Collectd
Zipkin Scribe	K8s Cluster
	Redis
	SignalFx
	Simple Prometheus
	Wavefront

Processors

Community
k8s

Exporters

Commerical	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

OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib 0.3.0 (Beta)

Docker images:

• Contrib: docker pull otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib:0.3.0
  • Community open-source receivers and exporters including for commercial back-ends
  • Community processors and extensions
• Core: docker pull otel/opentelemetry-collector:0.3.0
  • Supported open-source receivers and exporters
  • Supported processors and extensions

Breaking changes

• Make prometheus reciever 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

Checksums

Checksums were generated with shasum -a 256 bin/* and are present in the checksums.txt file.

Alpha v0.2.8

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.