OpenTelemetry Collector v0.4.0 (Beta)

🎉 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

Receivers	Processors	Exporters
Jaeger	Attributes	File
OpenCensus	Batch	Jaeger
OTLP	Memory Limiter	Logging
Zipkin	Queued Retry	OpenCensus
	Resource	OTLP
	Sampling	Zipkin
	Span

Metrics

Receivers	Processors	Exporters
HostMetrics	Batch	File
OpenCensus	Filter	Logging
OTLP	Memory Limiter	OpenCensus
Prometheus		OTLP
VM Metrics		Prometheus

Extensions

• Health Check
• Performance Profiler
• zPages