open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector v0.12.0 on GitHub

🚀 New components 🚀

configauth package with the auth settings that can be used by receivers (#1807, #1808, #1809, #1810)
perfcounters package that uses perflib for host metrics receiver (#1835, #1836, #1868, #1869, #1870)

Remove queued_retry and enable otlp metrics receiver in default config (#1823, #1838)
Add limit_percentage and spike_limit_percentage options to memorylimiter processor (#1622)
hostmetrics receiver:
- Collect additional labels from partitions in the filesystems scraper (#1858)
- Add filters for mount point and filesystem type (#1866)
Add cloud.provider semantic conventions (#1865)
attribute processor: Add log support (#1783)
Deprecate OpenCensus-based internal data structures (#1843)
Introduce SpanID data type, not yet used in Protobuf messages ($1854, #1855)
Enable otlp trace by default in the released docker image (#1883)
tailsampling processor: Combine batches of spans into a single batch (#1864)
filter processor: Update to use pdata (#1885)
Allow MSI upgrades (#1914)

prometheus receiver: Print a more informative message about 'up' metric value (#1826)
Use custom data type and custom JSON serialization for traceid (#1840)
Skip creation of redundant nil resource in translation from OC if there are no combined metrics (#1803)
tailsampling processor: Only send to next consumer once (#1735)
Report Windows pagefile usage in bytes (#1837)
Fix issue where Prometheus SD config cannot be parsed (#1877)