🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.12.0 (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 🚀

• awsemf exporter to support exporting metrics to AWS CloudWatch (#498, #1169)
• http_forwarder extension that forwards HTTP requests to a specified target (#979, #1014, #1150)
• datadog exporter that sends metric and trace data to Datadog (#1142, #1178, #1181, #1212)
• awsecscontainermetrics receiver to collect metrics from Amazon ECS Task Metadata Endpoint (#1089, #1148, #1160)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• signalfx exporter:
  • Add host metadata synchronization (#1039, #1118)
  • Add copy_dimensions translator option (#1126)
  • Update k8s_cluster metric translations (#1121)
  • Add option to exclude metrics (#1156)
  • Add avg aggregation method (#1151)
  • Fallback to host if cloud resource id not found (#1170)
  • Add backwards compatible translation rules for the dockerstatsreceiver (#1201)
  • Enable queuing and retries (#1223)
• splunkhec exporter:
  • Add log support (#875)
  • Enable queuing and retries (#1222)
• k8scluster receiver: Standardize metric names (#1119)
• awsxray exporter:
  • Support AWS EKS attributes (#1090)
  • Store resource attributes in X-Ray segments (#1174)
• honeycomb exporter:
  • Add span kind to the event sent to Honeycomb (#474)
  • Add option to adjust the sample rate using an attribute on the span (#1162)
• jmxmetrics extension: Add subprocess manager to manage child java processes (#1028)
• elastic exporter: Initial metrics support (#1173)
• k8s processor: Rename default attr names for label/annotation extraction (#1214)
• Add common SignalFx host id extraction (#1100)
• Allow MSI upgrades (#1165)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• awsxray exporter: Don't set origin to EC2 when not on AWS (#1115)