Weekly Report: 2025-01-07 - 2025-01-14

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• {CATEGORY}: {COUNT} ({CHANGE_FROM_PREVIOUS_WEEK})

Issues Report

• New issues: 31
  Issues

  • Attribute not being exported (#37178)
  • [cmd/telemetrygen] Add support for different exporters in telemetrygen API (#37175)
  • [exporter/elasticsearch] Truncate timestamp to millis for metrics to avoid TSDB grouping issue (#37165)
  • Error with Connector Count: Invalid Temporality and Type Combination for Metric in Prometheus Remote Write (#37164)
  • Azure Event Hub checkpoint state is disregarded after collector restart (#37157)
  • New component: New component: Add RocketMQ Receiver to OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib (#37155)
  • New component: OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib (#37154)
  • New component: RocketMQ Exporter (#37153)
  • [exporter/googlecloudpubsub] Add profiles support (#37148)
  • [receiver/googlecloudpubsub] Add profiles support (#37147)
  • Ability to configure processors in the EKS addon (#37140)
  • [connector/spanmetrics] OpenTelemetry Collector gateway deployment mode cannot parse agent metrics data. (#37139)
  • [receiver/kafkareceiver] autocommit set false does not take effect when exporter failed (#37136)
  • opamp server connect multiple supervisor (#37132)
  • [processor/k8sattributes] Failing test TestE2E_ClusterRBACCollectorStartAfterTelemetryGen/traces-deployment (#37125)
  • metrics filter is not working (#37124)
  • Enhance httpcheckreceiver to Support Nested "endpoints" Under targets (#37121)
  • Incorrect title in Redis Storage README (#37115)
  • [receiver/awsfirehose] Implement encoding extension framework (#37113)
  • Sum aggregation function should support more types (#37110)
  • [receiver/googlecloudpubsub] Add support for Encoding Extensions (#37109)
  • [test] Test_PushMetricsConcurrent fails on Windows 2025 GH runner (#37104)
  • [Flaky test] spanmetricsconnector.TestConnectorConsumeTracesExpiredMetrics flaky on Windows (#37096)
  • add gauge metric support for signaltometrics connector (#37093)
  • [CI] Enforce that components from any distribution listed in cmd/otelcontribcol/builder-config.yaml (#37087)
  • OTel Collector Fails Health Check on AWS App Runner with Minimal Config (#37081)
  • [extension/dbstorage] Failing test TestExtensionIntegrityWithPostgres (#37079)
  • Deprecate support for reading resource-related fields from span attributes (#37077)
  • Have reasonable defaults for the geoipprocessor's context and attribute parameters (#37070)
  • Prometheus metrics missing k8s_deployment_name attribute for short period after agent restart (#37056)
  • Weekly Report: 2024-12-31 - 2025-01-07 (#37048)
• Issues needing triage: 100
  Issues

  • Attribute not being exported (#37178)
  • [cmd/telemetrygen] Add support for different exporters in telemetrygen API (#37175)
  • Error with Connector Count: Invalid Temporality and Type Combination for Metric in Prometheus Remote Write (#37164)
  • Azure Event Hub checkpoint state is disregarded after collector restart (#37157)
  • New component: New component: Add RocketMQ Receiver to OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib (#37155)
  • New component: RocketMQ Exporter (#37153)
  • Ability to configure processors in the EKS addon (#37140)
  • [connector/spanmetrics] OpenTelemetry Collector gateway deployment mode cannot parse agent metrics data. (#37139)
  • [receiver/kafkareceiver] autocommit set false does not take effect when exporter failed (#37136)
  • opamp server connect multiple supervisor (#37132)
  • metrics filter is not working (#37124)
  • Enhance httpcheckreceiver to Support Nested "endpoints" Under targets (#37121)
  • [Flaky test] spanmetricsconnector.TestConnectorConsumeTracesExpiredMetrics flaky on Windows (#37096)
  • [extension/dbstorage] Failing test TestExtensionIntegrityWithPostgres (#37079)
  • Propose using a different schema to represent Events in a span (#37028)
  • [receiver/kafka] In k8s, 2 pods as consumer, but only one pod can connect Kafka (#37026)
  • otel transform processor (#36980)
  • Issue with filelog Receiver: "no files match the configured criteria" (#36969)
  • Add subpolicy metrics for And, Composite policies (#36966)
  • [kafkaexporter] How to optimize the performance of the Collector, especially the CPU utilization rate? (#36974)
  • Composite policy doesn't allow for overflow between subpolicies if a policy sets Sampled but has gone over its max rate (#36959)
  • Composite policy does not observe the policy_order in the config (#36955)
  • Logs to debug authentication using oauth2 (#36944)
  • Broken trace context propagation: OTel Trace ID of DD agent spans converted by OTel Col Datadog Receiver are wrong (#36926)
  • [rabbitmqreceiver] Add node level metrics to receiver (#36925)
  • Datadog Receiver spans don't follow OTel specs (#36924)
  • allow to set "metadata" in config.yaml without validation constraints (#36856)
  • filelog add jsonlogs in opensearch there are problem there are not show logs in logs-section opensearch-dashboard (#36816)
  • [connector/routing] Ability to dynamically determine a pipeline ID (#36809)
  • Separate Dimensions for calls and duration metrics in Span Metrics (#36805)
  • otel.process.context_switches metric counts only the context switches of the main thread (#36804)
  • [processor/probabilistic_sampler] The default sampling mode in documentation is self-contradictory (#36802)
  • Tail-based sampling with policies evaluated with first match mechanism (#36795)
  • [testbed] Add resource limits to benchmark results file (#36720)
  • [exporter/loadbalancing] Data loss still unavoidable under high load and autoscaling (#36717)
  • Sampling affects the accuracy of performance metrics (#36705)
  • [receiver/azuremonitorreceiver] feat: multi subscriptions support and automatic discovery (#36612)
  • [receiver/azuremonitorreceiver] feat: Allow to not split result by dimension (#36611)
  • Trace -> Profile connector (#36596)
  • Couldnt aggregate cummilative metrics on time and then label (#36578)
  • [processor/interval] Allow bypassing cumulative sums / counters (#36561)
  • feature(googlecloudspannerreceiver): Allow specifying scraping all databases for a Spanner instance (#36553)
  • [processor/cumulativetodelta] Support persistant storage. (#36551)
  • [exporter/clickhouse] create database fail if clickhouse cluster (#36540)
  • Cannot set header x-honeycomb-dataset using the service.name resource attribute (#36538)
  • [exporter/opensearch] Align emitted data's schema to match OTLP (#36529)
  • loadbalancing exporter seems to eat data if fed identical attributes for a datapoint + timestamp (#36508)
  • Support mapping of ClientService to an exposed list of attributes (#36503)
  • Unable to send metrics using googlecloudexporter to custom endpoint with incorrect errors (#36502)
  • Configure renovate to update go version automatically in github workflows (#36484)
  • [receiver/kubeletstatsreceiver] Kubeletstats receiver: Adding feasibility in kubeletstats receiver to fetch kubelet metrics (#36453)
  • Enhancing k8sattributesprocessor for Multi-Dimensional Metrics Collection (#36437)
  • MongoDB Atlas receiver configure granularity of metrics per project (#36411)
  • [receiver/awsfirehosereceiver] Support logs from AWS services sent directly to Firehose (#36379)
  • AWS XRay exporter receiving http 408 error (#36338)
  • [datadogexporter/datadogconnector] OpenTelemetry Missing Tags in APM Stats while upgrading to 0.95.0 (#36329)
  • [receiver/sqlquery] Add support for sybase database connections (#36328)
  • [exporter/azuremonitor] Unable to use APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING (#36319)
  • [exporter/clickhouseexporter] Issue with fields not populating in ClickHouse Exporter (v0.104.0+) (#36249)
  • [receiver/awsfirehosereceiver] Support statistics on top of min/max/sum/count for metrics ingestion (#36241)
  • Make it possible for Windowseventlogreceiver to deal with a missing channel (#36237)
  • improve documentation of the otelcol benchmarks (#36230)
  • [receiver/k8sobjects] allow options to exclude namespace (#36217)
  • [exporters/otlphttpexporter] Support for json_log_encoding extension (#36203)
  • [FR] Force type when doing environment variable substitution (#36183)
  • [receiver/awsxray] X-Ray Receiver appears to be dropping or rejecting segments from X-Ray (#36128)
  • Simplify Collector Configuration for Users (#36116)
  • AWS CloudWatch logs for Container Insights contain no CPU usage metrics when setting collection_interval to more than 300s (#36109)
  • New component: traceroutereceiver (#36099)
  • fileexporter is not encoding traceId according to specification (#36095)
  • Unable to find complete exported spans in OpenSearch Backend (#36136)
  • [exporter/elasticsearch] Automatic Mapping mode detection via request metadata (#36092)
  • [processor/attributes] Configuration options meant for traces-only should not pass validation on metrics. (#36077)
  • Filtering metrics by label/attribute (via regex) (#36038)
  • README for spanmetricsconnector is missing output examples (#36030)
  • [BUG] [parser /container] Error with Reduced max_log_size in OpenTelemetry Collector's Filelog Receiver (#36020)
  • processor is not working for attribute filter involving url (#36003)
  • [connector/spanmetrics] Incorrect starttimestamps for subspans. (#35994)
  • [receiver/awsfirehosereceiver] Support receiving multiple record type using single endpoint (#35988)
  • [receiver/awsecscontainermetrics] Clarify behavior of certain metric attributes (#35987)
  • [processor/metricsgenerationprocessor] Status of it, move to beta? (#35976)
  • Mongo receiver throws error when scrapping metrics from mongos instance (#35916)
  • otelcol-contrib file_storage does not recover gracefully upon potentially corrupted database (#35899)
  • Allow the OIDC extension client secret to be provided by an Environment Variable (#35897)
  • Sentry exporter: Add stack trace to error events (#35887)
  • deltatocumulative re-uses memory (#35872)
  • [receiver/awscontainerinsight] High cardinality with default configuration (#35861)
  • Add shard count to the Elasticsearch index stats scrapper (#35858)
  • [exporter/azuremonitor] Exporter doesn't export span links (#35855)
  • Collector giving the 404 response while exporting the traces (#36137)
  • Inconsistent Metric Descriptions Between dockerstatsreceiver and podmanstatsreceiver Causing prometheusexporter Errors (#35829)
  • LoadBalancer Exporter Does Not Release Memory When Using StreamIDs for Metrics (#35810)
  • [datadogreceiver] unset/unspecified type results in no processed data (#35752)
  • Otel collector pod not able to collect msges from nlog config for otel (#35732)
  • azuremonitorexporter does not implement ExportSpans (Re-Open azuremonitorexporter does not implement ExportSpans #27053) (#35690)
  • [Documentation] ADX table/column is case sensitive but the documentation used incorrect column name (#35671)
  • Sqlserver receiver should allow default instances on Windows (#35670)
  • ecs_task_cpu_utilization and ecs_task_cpu_usage_vcpu have the wrong units listed (#35640)
  • Processor needs to know the source of its data/signal like type and instance of receiver. (#35596)
  • "limit" in receiver/awscloudwatchreceiver is not functioning as expected (#35486)
• Issues ready to merge: 4
  Issues

  • [extension/encoding] support skywalkingencoding extension (#36968)
  • [pkg/ottl] add ValueExpression to support extraction of values from the signal context (#36883)
  • [processor/resourcedetection] Add support for detecting GCE VMs in Managed Instance Groups (#36142)
  • feat/re-allow multiple workers (#36134)
• Issues needing sponsorship: 31
  Issues

  • New component: New component: Add RocketMQ Receiver to OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib (#37155)
  • New component: RocketMQ Exporter (#37153)
  • New component: huaweicloudlogsreceiver (#36783)
  • New component: AWS SQS Receiver (#36516)
  • [processor/deltatocumulative] enhancements for slow-moving ("sparse") counters (#36485)
  • [receiver/kubeletstatsreceiver] Kubeletstats receiver: Adding feasibility in kubeletstats receiver to fetch kubelet metrics (#36453)
  • New confmap provider: AWS SSM ParameterStore (#36383)
  • New component: traceroutereceiver (#36099)
  • New component: Diagnostic Extension (#36018)
  • New component: BrowserSyntheticCheck Receiver (#36010)
  • New component: Queue Processor (#35803)
  • [exporter/postgres]: Exporter to save OTEL data in postgresql (#35451)
  • New component: Faro exporter (#35319)
  • New component: Alibaba Cloud Resource Detection Processor (#35292)
  • New component: DNS Query receiver (#34954)
  • Add Google Big Query Exporter to Telemetry (#34809)
  • New component: Community ID processor (#34661)
  • Update context dynamically from attributes (#34649)
  • Singleton Receiver Creator (#34460)
  • Integrate Beyla Agent as an OpenTelemetry Collector Receiver (#34321)
  • New component: Azure Blob Exporter (#34319)
  • systemd unit state (#34247)
  • New component: RabbitMQ (message) Receiver (#34242)
  • New component: [receiver/gelfreceiver] (#33861)
  • New component: container processor (#33822)
  • New component: Redfish receiver proposal (#33724)
  • Is there any future support for duckdb exporter? (#33717)
  • New component: dnstap (#33705)
  • Add Windows Service status metrics (#31377)
  • New component: Faro Receiver (#19180)
  • New component: AWS CloudWatch metrics receiver (#15667)
• New issues needing sponsorship: 2
  Issues

  • New component: New component: Add RocketMQ Receiver to OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib (#37155)
  • New component: RocketMQ Exporter (#37153)
• Issues and PRs that need code owner review: 50
  Issues

  • [receiver/awsfirehose] Implement encoding extension framework (#37113)
  • [exporter/elasticsearch] Ability to specify the document ID for logs (#36882)
  • add external id config for role assumption (#36725)
  • Encoding that sends raw format including resource and record attributes (#36674)
  • process.uptime should be added in hostmetrics/process scraper (#36667)
  • [connector/spanmetrics] SpanMetrics & ServiceGraph should consider the startTimeStamp from the span data itself and not the timeStamp when the collector receives the span (#36613)
  • Azure resultSignature is not necessarily a string (#36499)
  • [receiver/mongodb] Add missing replication lag metrics (#36375)
  • [receiver/k8sobjects] allow options to exclude namespace (#36217)
  • Update module github.com/mitchellh/hashstructure to v2 (#36202)
  • [receiver/awsecscontainermetrics] Clarify behavior of certain metric attributes (#35987)
  • datadog-agent --> otel-collector/datadog receiver (#35867)
  • [receiver/awscontainerinsight] default host proc (/rootfs/proc) is attempted before checking for HOST_PROC env var (#35862)
  • [receiver/awscontainerinsight] High cardinality with default configuration (#35861)
  • [exporter/opensearch] Component maintenance (#35781)
  • Respect the environment variable DOCKER_HOST in resolving the endpoint (#35779)
  • Sentry Exporter - Issues are not associated with the correct environment (#35649)
  • [receiver/awscontainerinsight] "error": "both cadvisor and k8sapiserver failed to start" (#35418)
  • Allow to override the sts_endpoint when using sigv4auth (#35297)
  • The servicegraph connector component merges metrics from different dimensions (#35287)
  • [receiver/kafka]: Support access to message key (#35231)
  • [receiver/httpcheck] Proposal: Add DNS Duration Timing Metric (#34987)
  • OpenTelemetry Collector: Filesystem Metrics Showing Zero Values (#34934)
  • Add Dynamic index (#34746)
  • influxdb receiver - allow configurable field separator for joining measurement and field names (#34693)
  • [processor/metricstransform] support the ability to send a list of string as group_resource_labels (#34671)
  • opentelementry receiver log from file and export to opensearch (#34566)
  • Organizing profile parameter under groups (#34340)
  • [docker_stats] - Could not parse docker containerStats for container id (#34194)
  • [exporter/azuremonitor] collector can't send data to different azure application insights (#34188)
  • Metrics Deduplication (#34141)
  • Update module github.com/apache/arrow/go/v16 to v17 (#34114)
  • Metric Filter using include/exclude syntax not filtering properly using metric labels/attributes (#34072)
  • Add support for database size metrics (#34052)
  • fileexporter: recreate files if they are deleted from outside otelcol (#33987)
  • redisreceiver Add redis instance.endpoint in ResourceAttributes (#33880)
  • Get container metadata in resourcedetection processor. (#33821)
  • influxes receiver might need more endpoints (#33817)
  • [receiver/awscontainerinsight] Amazon Linux 2023 container instance does not have the expected cgroup path. (#33716)
  • Span Metrics connector support for OTEP 235 probability sampling (#33632)
  • Dynamic topic for googlecloudpubsub exporter (#33547)
  • Clarify statsd receiver use case description (#33502)
  • Line Protocol generated by influxDB exporter seems to be incorrect (#33444)
  • [exporter/opensearchexporter] Support OLTP Mapping (#33436)
  • Specify a role_arn for awscloudwatchlogs exporter (#33278)
  • system.cpu.time and system.cpu.utilization metrics seem incorrect when running collector on a Windows operating system (#32867)
  • Update module github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-go/v2 to v4 (#32444)
  • [receiver/datadog] Grafana Cloud Operations table is not detailed by endpoint (#31938)
  • Dynamic selection of log_group_name and log_stream_name in aws cloudwatch logs exporter (#31382)
  • Error while sending traces using OpenSearch exporter (#31039)

Components Report

• unmaintained: 4
  Components

  • kineticaexporter: {"unmaintained":["metrics","traces","logs"]}
  • opensearchexporter: {"unmaintained":["traces","logs"]}
  • ecstaskobserver: {"unmaintained":["extension"]}
  • jmxreceiver: {"unmaintained":["metrics"]}
• deprecated: 4
  Components

  • lokiexporter: {"deprecated":["logs"]}
  • sapmexporter: {"deprecated":["traces"]}
  • routingprocessor: {"deprecated":["traces","metrics","logs"]}
  • sapmreceiver: {"deprecated":["traces"]}
• Seeking new code owners: 26
  Components

  • spanmetricsconnector
  • headerssetterextension
  • filestorage
  • redisstorageextension
  • ottl
  • activedirectorydsreceiver
  • aerospikereceiver
  • awscloudwatchreceiver
  • azureeventhubreceiver
  • bigipreceiver
  • cloudflarereceiver
  • cloudfoundryreceiver
  • couchdbreceiver
  • elasticsearchreceiver
  • flinkmetricsreceiver
  • iisreceiver
  • memcachedreceiver
  • mongodbatlasreceiver
  • mongodbreceiver
  • rabbitmqreceiver
  • riakreceiver
  • sqlserverreceiver
  • syslogreceiver
  • vcenterreceiver
  • windowsperfcountersreceiver
  • zookeeperreceiver