OpenTelemetry - CNCF/opentelemetry-collector: Release v0.84.0

Name: opentelemetry-collector

Owner: OpenTelemetry - CNCF

Release: v0.84.0

Released: 2023-08-29

License: Apache-2.0

Release Assets:

Images and binaries here: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/tag/v0.84.0

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.

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