OpenTelemetry Collector v0.6.0 (Beta)

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector v0.6.0 (Beta) 🎉

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Renamed the metrics generated by hostmetrics receiver to match the (currently still pending) OpenTelemetry system metric conventions (#1261) (#1269)
• Removed vmmetrics receiver (#1282)
• Removed cpu scraper report_per_cpu config option (#1326)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Added disk merged (#1267) and process count (#1268) metrics to hostmetrics
• Log metric data points in logging exporter (#1258)
• Changed the batch processor to not ignore the errors returned by the exporters (#1259)
• Build and publish MSI (#1153) and DEB/RPM packages (#1278, #1335)
• Added batch size metric to batch processor (#1241)
• Added log support for memorylimiter processor (#1291) and logging exporter (#1298)
• Always add tags for observability, other metrics may use them (#1312)
• Added metrics support (#1313) and allow partial retries in queued_retry processor (#1297)
• Update resource processor: introduce attributes config parameter to specify actions on attributes similar to attributes processor, old config interface is deprecated (#1315)
• Update memory state labels for non-Linux OSs (#1325)
• Ensure tcp connection value is provided for all states, even when count is 0 (#1329)
• Set batch processor channel size to num cpus (#1330)
• Add send_batch_max_size config parameter to batch processor enforcing hard limit on batch size (#1310)
• Add support for including a per-RPC authentication to gRPC settings (#1250)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Fixed OTLP waitForReady, not set from config (#1254)
• Fixed all translation diffs between OTLP and Jaeger (#1222)
• Disabled process scraper for any non Linux/Windows OS (#1328)

📦 Release bits 📦

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

OpenTelemetry Collector v0.5.0 (Beta)

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector v0.5.0 (Beta) 🎉

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Update OTLP to v0.4.0 (#1142): Collector will be incompatible with any other sender or receiver of OTLP protocol
  of different versions
• Make "--new-metrics" command line flag the default (#1148)
• Change endpoint to url in Zipkin exporter config (#1186)
• Change tls_credentials to tls_settings in Jaegar receiver config (#1233)
• OTLP receiver config change for protocols to support mTLS (#1223)
• Remove export_resource_labels flag from Zipkin exporter (#1163)

🚀 New components 🚀

• Receivers
  • Added process scraper to the hostmetrics receiver (#1047)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• otlpexporter: send configured headers in request (#1130)
• Enable Collector to be run as a Windows service (#1120)
• Add config for HttpServer (#1196)
• Allow cors in HTTPServerSettings (#1211)
• Add a generic grpc server settings config, cleanup client config (#1183)
• Rely on gRPC to batch and loadbalance between connections instead of custom logic (#1212)
• Allow to tune the read/write buffers for gRPC clients (#1213)
• Allow to tune the read/write buffers for gRPC server (#1218)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Handle overlapping metrics from different jobs in prometheus exporter (#1096)
• Fix handling of SpanKind INTERNAL in OTLP OC translation (#1143)
• Unify zipkin v1 and v2 annotation/tag parsing logic (#1002)
• mTLS: Add support to configure client CA and enforce ClientAuth (#1185)
• Fixed untyped Prometheus receiver bug (#1194)
• Do not embed ProtocolServerSettings in gRPC (#1210)
• Add Context to the missing CreateMetricsReceiver method (#1216)

📦 Release bits 📦

Docker: docker pull otel/opentelemetry-collector:0.4.1
Binary checksums: Generated with shasum -a 256 bin/* and are present in the checksums.txt file

OpenTelemetry Collector v0.4.0 (Beta)

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector v0.4.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation on how to receive, process, and export telemetry data. Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

For community-based components including support for commercial back-ends, please check out the opentelemetry-collector-contrib release.

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• isEnabled configuration option removed (#909)
• thrift_tchannel protocol moved from jaeger receiver to jaeger_legacy in contrib (#636)

⚠️ Major changes ⚠️

• Switch from localhost to 0.0.0.0 by default for all receivers (#1006)
• Internal API Changes (only impacts contributors)
  • Add context to Start and Stop methods in the component (#790)
  • Rename AttributeValue and AttributeMap method names (#781)
    (other breaking changes in the internal trace data types)
  • Change entire repo to use the new vanityurl go.opentelemetry.io/collector (#977)

🚀 New components 🚀

• Receivers
  • hostmetrics receiver with CPU (#862), disk (#921), load (#974), filesystem (#926), memory (#911), network (#930), and virtual memory (#989) support
• Processors
  • batch for batching received metrics (#1060)
  • filter for filtering (dropping) received metrics (#1001)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• otlp receiver implement HTTP X-Protobuf (#1021)
• Exporters: Support mTLS in gRPC exporters (#927)
• Extensions: Add zpages for service (servicez, pipelinez, extensions) (#894)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Add missing logging for metrics at debug level (#1108)
• Fix setting internal status code in jaeger receivers (#1105)
• zipkin export fails on span without timestamp when used with queued_retry (#1068)
• Fix zipkin receiver status code conversion (#996)
• Remove extra send/receive annotations with using zipkin v1 (#960)
• Fix resource attribute mutation bug when exporting in jaeger proto (#907)
• Fix metric/spans count, add tests for nil entries in the slices (#787)

📦 Release bits 📦

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

🧩 Components 🧩

Traces

Receivers	Processors	Exporters
Jaeger	Attributes	File
OpenCensus	Batch	Jaeger
OTLP	Memory Limiter	Logging
Zipkin	Queued Retry	OpenCensus
	Resource	OTLP
	Sampling	Zipkin
	Span

Metrics

Receivers	Processors	Exporters
HostMetrics	Batch	File
OpenCensus	Filter	Logging
OTLP	Memory Limiter	OpenCensus
Prometheus		OTLP
VM Metrics		Prometheus

Extensions

• Health Check
• Performance Profiler
• zPages

OpenTelemetry Collector v0.3.0 (Beta)

Docker images:

• Core: docker pull otel/opentelemetry-collector:0.3.0
  • Supported open-source receivers and exporters
  • Supported processors and extensions
• 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

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

Components

Receivers / Exporters	Processors	Extensions
Jaeger	Attributes	Health Check
OpenCensus	Batch	Performance Profiler
OpenTelemetry	Memory Limiter	zPages
Zipkin	Queued Retry
	Resource
	Sampling
	Span

Checksums

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

v0.2.10

Enable publishing releases from tags (#749)

Circle was not running any builds for tags because the publish job had
other jobs as dependencies and they did not explicitly specify that they
should be run for tags. Looks like Circle will always run a job for any
branch unless the branch is ignored and never run a job for a tag unless
the tag is explicitly enabled.

Co-authored-by: Bogdan Drutu <bogdandrutu@gmail.com>

Alpha v0.2.8

Alpha v0.2.8 of OpenTelemetry Collector

• Implemented OTLP receiver and exporter.
• Added ability to pass config to the service programmatically (useful for custom builds).
• Improved own metrics / observability.
• Refactored component and factory interface definitions (breaking change #683)

Alpha v0.2.7

Alpha v0.2.7 of OpenTelemetry Collector

• Improved error handling on shutdown
• Partial implementation of new metrics (new obsreport package)
• Include resource labels for Zipkin exporter
• New HASH action to attribute processor

Alpha v0.2.6

Alpha v0.2.6 of OpenTelemetry Collector.

• Update metrics prefix to otelcol and expose command line argument to modify the prefix value.
• Extend Span processor to have include/exclude span logic.
• Batch dropped span now emits zero when no spans are dropped.

Alpha v0.2.5

Alpha v0.2.5 of OpenTelemetry Collector.

• Regexp-based filtering of spans based on service names.
• Ability to choose strict or regexp matching for include/exclude filters.

Alpha v0.2.4

Alpha v0.2.4 of OpenTelemetry Collector.

• Regexp-based filtering of span names.
• Ability to extract attributes from span names and rename span.
• File exporter for debugging.
• Span processor is now enabled by default.