OpenTelemetry Collector v0.6.0 (Beta)

🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector v0.6.0 (Beta) 🎉

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Renamed the metrics generated by hostmetrics receiver to match the (currently still pending) OpenTelemetry system metric conventions (#1261) (#1269)
• Removed vmmetrics receiver (#1282)
• Removed cpu scraper report_per_cpu config option (#1326)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Added disk merged (#1267) and process count (#1268) metrics to hostmetrics
• Log metric data points in logging exporter (#1258)
• Changed the batch processor to not ignore the errors returned by the exporters (#1259)
• Build and publish MSI (#1153) and DEB/RPM packages (#1278, #1335)
• Added batch size metric to batch processor (#1241)
• Added log support for memorylimiter processor (#1291) and logging exporter (#1298)
• Always add tags for observability, other metrics may use them (#1312)
• Added metrics support (#1313) and allow partial retries in queued_retry processor (#1297)
• Update resource processor: introduce attributes config parameter to specify actions on attributes similar to attributes processor, old config interface is deprecated (#1315)
• Update memory state labels for non-Linux OSs (#1325)
• Ensure tcp connection value is provided for all states, even when count is 0 (#1329)
• Set batch processor channel size to num cpus (#1330)
• Add send_batch_max_size config parameter to batch processor enforcing hard limit on batch size (#1310)
• Add support for including a per-RPC authentication to gRPC settings (#1250)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Fixed OTLP waitForReady, not set from config (#1254)
• Fixed all translation diffs between OTLP and Jaeger (#1222)
• Disabled process scraper for any non Linux/Windows OS (#1328)

📦 Release bits 📦

• Docker: docker pull otel/opentelemetry-collector:0.6.0
• Binary checksums: Generated with shasum -a 256 * and are present in the checksums.txt file