🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.18.0 (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 🚀

• sumologic exporter to send logs and metrics data to Sumo Logic
• dynatrace exporter to send metrics to Dynatrace

💡 Enhancements 💡

• datadog exporter:
  • Add resource attributes to tags conversion feature (#1782)
  • Add Kubernetes conventions for hostnames (#1919)
  • Add container tags to datadog export for container infra metrics in service view (#1895)
  • Update resource naming and span naming (#1861)
  • Add environment variables support for config options (#1897)
• awsxray exporter: Add parsing of JavaScript stack traces (#1888)
• elastic exporter: Translate exception span events (#1858)
• signalfx exporter: Add translation rules to aggregate per core CPU metrics in default translations (#1841)
• resourcedetection processor: Gather tags associated with the EC2 instance and add them as resource attributes (#1899)
• simpleprometheus receiver: Add support for passing params to the prometheus scrape config (#1949)
• azuremonitor exporter: Implement Span status code specification changes - gRPC (#1960)
• metricstransform processor: Add grouping option ($1887)
• alibabacloudlogservice exporter: Use producer to send data to improve performance (#1981)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• datadog exporter: Handle monotonic metrics client-side (#1805)
• awsxray exporter: Log error when translating span (#1809)