open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector v0.84.0

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User Facing Changes

💡 Enhancements 💡

• loggingexporter: Adds exemplars logging to the logging exporter when detailed verbosity level is set. (#7912)
• configgrpc: Allow any registered gRPC load balancer name to be used. (#8262)
• service: add OTLP export for internal traces (#8106)
• configgrpc: Add support for :authority pseudo-header in grpc client (#8228)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• otlphttpexporter: Fix the handling of the HTTP response to ignore responses not encoded as protobuf (#8263)

Go API Changes

💡 Enhancements 💡

• exporter/exporterhelper: Introduce a new exporter helper that operates over client-provided requests instead of pdata (#7874)
  The following experimental API is introduced in exporter/exporterhelper package:

  • NewLogsRequestExporter: a new exporter helper for logs.
  • NewMetricsRequestExporter: a new exporter helper for metrics.
  • NewTracesRequestExporter: a new exporter helper for traces.
  • Request: an interface for client-defined requests.
  • RequestItemsCounter: an optional interface for counting the number of items in a Request.
  • LogsConverter: an interface for converting plog.Logs to Request.
  • MetricsConverter: an interface for converting pmetric.Metrics to Request.
  • TracesConverter: an interface for converting ptrace.Traces to Request.
    All the new APIs are intended to be used by exporters that need to operate over client-provided requests instead of pdata.

• otlpreceiver: Export HTTPConfig as part of the API for creating the otlpreceiver configuration. (#8175)
  Changes signature of receiver/otlpreceiver/config.go type httpServerSettings to HTTPConfig.