🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector v0.4.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation on how to receive, process, and export telemetry data. Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

For community-based components including support for commercial back-ends, please check out the opentelemetry-collector-contrib release.

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• isEnabled configuration option removed (#909)
• thrift_tchannel protocol moved from jaeger receiver to jaeger_legacy in contrib (#636)

⚠️ Major changes ⚠️

• Switch from localhost to 0.0.0.0 by default for all receivers (#1006)
• Internal API Changes (only impacts contributors)
  • Add context to Start and Stop methods in the component (#790)
  • Rename AttributeValue and AttributeMap method names (#781)
    (other breaking changes in the internal trace data types)
  • Change entire repo to use the new vanityurl go.opentelemetry.io/collector (#977)

🚀 New components 🚀

• Receivers
  • hostmetrics receiver with CPU (#862), disk (#921), load (#974), filesystem (#926), memory (#911), network (#930), and virtual memory (#989) support
• Processors
  • batch for batching received metrics (#1060)
  • filter for filtering (dropping) received metrics (#1001)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• otlp receiver implement HTTP X-Protobuf (#1021)
• Exporters: Support mTLS in gRPC exporters (#927)
• Extensions: Add zpages for service (servicez, pipelinez, extensions) (#894)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Add missing logging for metrics at debug level (#1108)
• Fix setting internal status code in jaeger receivers (#1105)
• zipkin export fails on span without timestamp when used with queued_retry (#1068)
• Fix zipkin receiver status code conversion (#996)
• Remove extra send/receive annotations with using zipkin v1 (#960)
• Fix resource attribute mutation bug when exporting in jaeger proto (#907)
• Fix metric/spans count, add tests for nil entries in the slices (#787)

📦 Release bits 📦

• Docker: docker pull otel/opentelemetry-collector:0.4.0
• Binary checksums: Generated with shasum -a 256 bin/* and are present in the checksums.txt file

🧩 Components 🧩

Traces

Metrics

Extensions

• Health Check
• Performance Profiler
• zPages