🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.28.0 (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 🚀

• humio exporter to export data to Humio using JSON over the HTTP Ingest API
• udplog receiver to receives logs from udp using the opentelemetry-log-collection library
• tanzuobservability exporter to send traces to Tanzu Observability

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• f5cloud exporter (#3509):
  • Renamed the config 'auth' field to 'f5cloud_auth'. This will prevent a config field name collision when Support for Custom Exporter Authenticators as Extensions is ready to be integrated.

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Enabled Dependabot for Github Actions (#3543)
• Change obsreport helpers for receivers to use the new pattern created in Collector (#3439,#3443,#3449,#3504,#3521,#3548)
• datadog exporter:
  • Add logging for unknown or unsupported metric types (#3421)
  • Add collector version tag to internal health metrics (#3394)
  • Remove sublayer stats calc and mutex (#3531)
  • Deduplicate hosts for which we send running metrics (#3539)
  • Add support for summary datatype (#3660)
  • Add datadog span operation name remapping config option (#3444)
  • Update error formatting for error spans that are not exceptions (#3701)
• nginx receiver: Update the nginx metrics to more closely align with the conventions (#3420)
• elasticsearch exporter: Init JSON encoding support (#3101)
• jmx receiver:
  • Allow setting system properties (#3450)
  • Update tested JMX Metric Gatherer release (#3695)
• Refactor components for the Client Authentication Extensions (#3507)
• Remove redundant conversion calls (#3688)
• storage extension: Add a Close method to Client interface (#3506)
• splunkhec exporter: Add metric_type as key which maps to the type of the metric (#3696)
• k8s processor: Add semantic conventions to k8s-tagger for pod metadata (#3544)
• kubeletstats receiver: Refactor kubelet client to internal folder (#3698)
• newrelic exporter (#3690):
  • Updates the log level from error to debug when New Relic rate limiting occurs
  • Updates the sanitized api key that is reported via metrics
• filestorage extension: Add ability to specify name (#3703)
• awsemf exporter: Store the initial value for cumulative metrics (#3425)
• awskinesis exporter: Refactor to allow for extended types of encoding (#3655)
• ecsobserver extension:
  • Add task definition, ec2, and service fetcher (#3503)
  • Add exporter to convert task to target (#3333)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• awsemf exporter: Remove delta adjustment from summaries by default (#3408)
• alibabacloudlogservice exporter: Sanitize labels for metrics (#3454)
• statsd receiver: Fix StatsD drop metrics tags when using summary as observer_type for timer/histogram (#3440)
• awsxray exporter: Restore setting of Throttle for HTTP throttle response (#3685)
• awsxray receiver: Fix quick start bug (#3653)
• metricstransform processor: Check all data points for matching metric label values (#3435)