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)