v0.9.0 Beta

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Remove old base factories:
  • ReceiverFactoryBase (#1583)
  • ProcessorFactoryBase (#1596)
  • ExporterFactoryBase (#1630)
• Remove logs factories and merge with normal factories (#1569)
• Remove reconnection_delay from OpenCensus exporter (#1516)
• Remove ConsumerOld interfaces (#1631)

🚀 New components 🚀

• prometheusremotewrite exporter (WIP): Send metrics data in Prometheus TimeSeries format to Cortex or any Prometheus (#1544)
• kafka receiver: Receive traces from Kafka (#1410)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• kafka exporter: Enable queueing, retry, timeout (#1455)
• Add Headers field in HTTPClientSettings (#1552)
• Change OpenCensus receiver (#1556) and exporter (#1571) to the new interfaces
• Add semantic attribute for telemetry.auto.version (#1578)
• Add uptime and RSS memory self-observability metrics (#1549)
• Support conversion for OpenCensus SameProcessAsParentSpan (#1629)
• Access application version in components (#1559)
• Make Kafka payload encoding configurable (#1584)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Stop further processing if filterprocessor filters all data (#1500)
• processscraper: Use same scrape time for all data points coming from same process (#1539)
• Ensure that time conversion for 0 returns nil timestamps or Time where IsZero returns true (#1550)
• Fix multiple exporters panic (#1563)
• Allow attribute processor for external use (#1574)
• Do not duplicate filesystem metrics for devices with many mount points (#1617)