AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry v0.41.0

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Collector v0.41.0 is now available. You can download the latest ADOT Collector image from the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Public Gallery.

Release Highlights

• Updated OpenTelemetry Collector dependencies to v1.15.0/v0.109.0
• Updated OpenTelemetry Collector contrib dependencies to v0.109.0

Note: The memory_ballast extension has been sunset upstream in favor of the GOMEMLIMIT environment variable. This release includes the memory_ballast extension from v0.108.1 of the OpenTelemetry Collector. The extension will be removed entirely in a future release should it become incompatible with the OpenTelemetry Collector framework's current release. See the Go documentation for more information about GOMEMLIMIT's usage.

Note: All listening receivers will now listen on localhost by default instead of 0.0.0.0. This may break expectations in containerized environments like Kubernetes. If you depend on 0.0.0.0 disable the component.UseLocalHostAsDefaultHost feature gate or explicitly set the endpoint to 0.0.0.0.

Note: Expansion of BASH-style environment variables, such as $FOO, is no longer be supported. Use ${FOO} or ${env:FOO} instead.

Note: The logging exporter has been deprecated upstream in favor of the debug exporter. If you are using the recommended verbosity configuration field the debug exporter can be substituted without further configuration changes.

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.