AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry v0.35.1

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Collector v0.35.1 is now available. You can download the latest ADOT Collector image from the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Public Gallery.

Notice

We are aware of a potential issue in the net/http package (CVE-2023-39326), used by the AWS Distribution for Open Telemetry (ADOT) Collector up to and including v0.35.0. We have a new release of the ADOT Collector, v0.35.1 updating packages affected by this vulnerability. We recommend that users update their ADOT Collector to at least v0.35.1 at the earliest opportunity. See https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/getting-started/collector for information on deploying the ADOT Collector.

Upstream changelog

• OpenTelemetry Collector v0.87.0
• OpenTelemetry Collector v0.88.0
• OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.87.0
• OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.88.0

New Components

The following feature gates are now enabled by default. The filelog receiver, filestorage extension, and AWS CloudwatchLogs exporter can be used with no command line changes. The feature gate can still be used to disable the usage of these components in an ADOT Collector configuration.

adot.receiver.filelog adot.exporter.awscloudwatchlogs adot.extension.file_storage`

Important: ADOT Collector v0.35.1 Breaking Changes

• Users of the statsd receiver, please refer to GitHub Issue - Warning: StatsD Receiver → EMF Exporter Metric Pipeline Breaking Change for information on a breaking change.
• Users of the awscontainerinsightreceiver, please refer to the GitHub Issue - Warning: Container Image Default User Change → Important consideration for AWSContainerInsightReceiver for more information on a breaking change.
• Users of the prometheusremotewrite and prometheus exporters, please refer to our migration guide and GitHub Issue - Warning: ADOT Collector v0.35.0 breaking changes - Normalization of metrics in prometheus exporters

Detailed release notes are available via - GitHub. All code changes are upstream in the respective OpenTelemetry project components.

Download

Detailed technical documentation is available on the ADOT developer site, and you can download the distribution from GitHub. You can also download the latest ADOT Collector image from the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Public Gallery.

To learn more about how to use AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) to collect data for your observability solution, check out the hands-on AWS Observability workshop. Please file an issue if you have any questions about the distribution, features, or its components.

We also welcome you to participate in the OpenTelemetry project. The project was approved for incubation status in August 2021 by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Technical Oversight Committee (CNCF TOC). Learn more about AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry on the AWS Open Source Blog, where we announced the distribution’s general availability for tracing in September 2021 and the distribution's general availability for metrics in May 2022.