AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry v0.42.0

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Collector v0.42.0 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 v1.21.0/v0.115.0
• Updated OpenTelemetry Collector contrib dependencies to v0.115.0

Breaking Changes:

• The memory_ballast extension was removed upstream and ADOT Collector in favor of the GOMEMLIMIT environment variable, See the Go documentation for more information about GOMEMLIMIT's usage.

• The logging exporter has been removed upstream in favor of the debug exporter. This release removes the logging exporter. See #11337 to migrate to the debug exporter.

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.