v0.25.0

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.25.0 (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 🚀

• kafkametricsreceiver new receiver component for collecting metrics about a kafka cluster - primarily lag and offset. configuration instructions
• file_storage extension to read and write data to the local file system (#3087)

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• newrelic exporter (#3091):
  • Removal of common attributes (use opentelemetry collector resource processor to add attributes)
  • Drop support for cumulative metrics being sent to New Relic via a collector

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Update opentelemetry-log-collection to v0.17.0 for log receivers (#3017)
• datadog exporter:
  • Add peer.service priority instead of service.name (#2817)
  • Improve support of semantic conventions for K8s, Azure and ECS (#2623)
• Improve and batch logs translation for stanza (#2892)
• statsd receiver: Add timing/histogram as OTLP gauge (#2973)
• honeycomb exporter: Add Retry and Queue settings (#2714)
• resourcedetection processor:
  • Add AKS resource detector (#3035)
  • Use conventions package constants for ECS detector (#3171)
• sumologic exporter: Add graphite format (#2695)
• Add trace attributes to the log entry for stanza (#3018)
• splunk_hec exporter: Send log record name as part of the HEC log event (#3119)
• newrelic exporter (#3091):
  • Add support for logs
  • Performance improvements
  • Optimizations to the New Relic payload to reduce payload size
  • Metrics generated for monitoring the exporter
  • Insert Key vs License keys are auto-detected in some cases
  • Collector version information is properly extracted via the application start info parameters

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• splunk_hec exporter: Fix sending log payload with missing the GZIP footer (#3032)
• awsxray exporter: Remove propagation of error on shutdown (#2999)
• resourcedetection processor:
  • Correctly report DRAGONFLYBSD value (#3100)
  • Fallback to os.Hostname when FQDN is not available (#3099)
• httpforwarder extension: Do not report ErrServerClosed when shutting down the service (#3173)
• collectd receiver: Do not report ErrServerClosed when shutting down the service (#3178)