latest otel collector version for ec2 and fargate

[georges-git]

Hello @mxiamxia and aws team:

Question 1: For EC2, I am getting the collector in the following way. It shows the version as 0.8.0. What is the latest version? How to get the latest version?

wget https://aws-otel-collector.s3.amazonaws.com/amazon_linux/amd64/latest/aws-otel-collector.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh ./aws-otel-collector.rpm
sudo /opt/aws/aws-otel-collector/bin/aws-otel-collector-ctl -c /opt/aws/aws-otel-collector/etc/config.yaml -a start
sudo /opt/aws/aws-otel-collector/bin/aws-otel-collector-ctl -c /opt/aws/aws-otel-collector/etc/config.yaml -a status
{
"status": "running",
"starttime": "2021-07-15T12:29:26+0000",
"version": "v0.8.0"
}

Question 2: For ECS in fargate: when pulling the image from "public.ecr.aws/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector:latest" , what version it will pull?

[sethAmazon]

1. V0.11.0 https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/releases/tag/v0.11.0 is latest

[sethAmazon]

2. It should be V0.11.0 https://gallery.ecr.aws/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector

[sethAmazon]

https://aws-otel-collector.s3.amazonaws.com/amazon_linux/amd64/v0.11.0/aws-otel-collector.rpm download the latest rpm here

[sethAmazon]

You can also pull 0.11.0 directly "docker pull public.ecr.aws/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector:v0.11.0"

[sethAmazon]

I download with the same link and I got agent version 0.11.0.

[georges-git]

Hello, I don't want to hard code versions.

1. Would this "public.ecr.aws/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector:latest" pull the lates 0.11 version for running otel as sidecar in fargate?

[mxiamxia]

pls use "public.ecr.aws/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector:latest" which should always pull the latest version for your service.

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[khanhntd]

Question 1 and 2 will give the same answer: it will always pull the latest one and if you want to know what is the latest version, please checkout the latest tag with release: https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/releases. For now, I will close this issue for now and if you have any more questions, please let us know and we will support you.