open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib v0.88.0

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The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release, be sure to check the release notes there as well.

End user facing changes

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• k8sclusterreceiver: Remove opencensus.resourcetype resource attribute (#26487)

• splunkhecexporter: Remove max_connections configuration setting. (#27610)
  use max_idle_conns or max_idle_conns_per_host instead.

• signalfxexporter: Remove max_connections configuration setting. (#27610)
  use max_idle_conns or max_idle_conns_per_host instead.

🚩 Deprecations 🚩

• dockerstatsreceiver: cpu.container.percent metric will be deprecated in v0.79.0 in favor of container.cpu.utilization (#21807)
  The metric container.cpu.percentage is now disabled by default and will be removed in v0.88.0.
  As a replacement, the following metric is now enabled by default: container.cpu.utilization.
  For details, see the docs.

• parquetexporter: Remove the parquet exporter (#27284)

🚀 New components 🚀

• encoding/jsonlogencodingextension: Add a new extension to support JSON encoding (only logs) (#6272)
• honeycombmarkerexporter: This component will export markers to be consumed by the Honeycomb Markers API to highlight user events (#26653)
• zipkinencodingextension: Introduce zipkin encoding extension. (#6272)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• datasetexporter: Make export of resources and scopes more flexible (#27651, #27649)

• pkg/stanza: Add option to run udp logs receiver (and stanza udp input operator) concurrently to reduce data-loss during high-scale scenarios (#27613)

• receiver/prometheus: Warn instead of failing when users rename using metric_relabel_configs in the prometheus receiver (#5001)

• awscloudwatchlogsexporter/awsemfexporter: Reduce noisy logs emitted by CloudWatch Logs Pusher. (#27774)
  The Collector logger will now write successful CloudWatch API writes at the Debug level instead of Info level.

• k8sobjectsreceiver: Move k8sobjectsreceiver from Alpha stability to Beta stability for logs. (#27635)

• datadogconnector: Allow datadogconnector to be used as a traces-to-traces connector (#27846)

• doubleconverter: Adding a double converter into pkg/ottl (#22056)

• syslogreceiver: validate protocol name (#27581)

• elasticsearchexporter: add missing scope info in span attributes (#27282)

• entension/storage/filestorage: Add support for setting bbolt fsync option (#20266)

• filelogreceiver: Add a new "top_n" option to specify the number of files to track when using ordering criteria (#23788)

• azuredataexplorerexporter: Added exporter helper config support for Azure Data Explorer exporter (#24329)

• k8sclusterreceiver: add optional k8s.pod.qos_class resource attribute (#27483)

• pkg/stanza: Log warning, instead of error, when Windows Event Log publisher metadata is not available and cache the successfully retrieved ones. (#27658)

• pkg/ottl: Add optional Converter parameters to replacement Editors (#27235)
  Functions to modify matched text during replacement can now be passed as optional arguments to the following Editors:

  • replace_pattern
  • replace_all_patterns
  • replace_match
  • replace_all_matches

• awscloudwatchlogsexporter: Improve the performance of the awscloudwatchlogsexporter (#26692)
  Improve the performance by adding support to multiple consumers and removing locks and limiters that are no longer
  necessary.

• pkg/pdatatest: support ignore timestamps in span comparisons for pdatatest (#27688)

• prometheusremotewriteexporter: addition of max_batch_size_bytes configurable parameter, to allow users to adjust it based on the capabilities of their specific remote storage (#21911)

• pkg/pdatatest: support ignore span attribute value in span comparisons for ptracetest (#27689)

• pkg/pdatatest: support ignore span ID in span comparisons for ptracetest (#27685)

• pkg/pdatatest: support ignore trace ID in span comparisons for ptracetest (#27687)

• pkg/stanza: When async is enabled for udp receiver, separate logic into readers (only read logs from udp port and push to channel), and processors (read logs from channel and process; decode, split, add attributes, and push downstream), allowing to change concurrency level for both readers and processors separately. (#27613)

• signalfxexporter: Add an option to control the dimension client timeout (#27815)

• signalfxexporter: Add the build version to the user agent of the SignalFx exporter (#16841)

• splunkentreceiver: Users can now use auth settings and basicauth extension to connect to their Splunk enterprise deployments (#27026)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• datasetexporter: Do not crash on NPE when any of the attributes contains null value. (#27648)
• syslog: add integration tests and fix related bugs (#21245)
• processor/resourcedetection: Don't parse the field cpuInfo.Model if it's blank. (#27678)
• k8sclusterreceiver: Change clusterquota and resourcequota metrics to use {resource} unit (#10553)
• cmd/telemetrygen: Fix go install for telemetrygen (#27855)
• pkg/ottl: Fix bug where named parameters needed a space after the equal sign (=). (#28511)
• filelogreceiver: Fix issue where batching of files could result in ignoring start_at setting. (#27773)
• prometheusremotewrite: Fix remote write exporter not respecting retrySettings.enabled flag (#27592)
• redactionprocessor: Fix mask when multiple patterns exist (#27646)

API changes

🚩 Deprecations 🚩

• pkg/stanza: Deprecate 'flush.WithPeriod'. Use 'flush.WithFunc' instead. (#27843)