OpenTelemetry C++ v1.5.0

v1.5.0 release

Release of core packages

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp (gRPC + HTTP/JSON)
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger (thrift + UDP/HTTP)

##Changelog

API

• No API change

SDK

• fix: urlPaser will incorrect parsing url like "http://abc.com/xxx@xxx/a/b" #1511
• Rename InstrumentationLibrary to InstrumentationScope #1507
• Add automatically semantic conventions from the spec (#873) #1497
• Use template class for in-memory data. #1496
• fix compiler warnings #1499
• Add trace sdk builders (#1393) #1471
• Remove reference to deprecated InstrumentationLibrary in OTLP #1469
• Fix trace kIsSampled flag set incorrectly #1465
• Fix build warnings about missing aggregates. #1368

Exporter

• Add resources to dep list of prometheus exporter test #1527
• Inline print_value() in ostream exporter #1512
• fix otlp grpc exporter naming #1488
• Fix endpoint in otlp grpc exporter #1474
• fix prometheus exporter failure type #1460

Semantic Conventions

• Upgrade to version 1.12.0 #873

Build

• Don't require applications using jaeger exporter to know about libcurl #1518
• Try to build nlohmann-json only it's depended. #1505
• Remove --config Debug when installing. #1480

Docs

• Update docs to use relative code links. #1447

Example

• Fix memory ownership of InMemorySpanExporter (#1473) #1471

Ext

• curl::HttpClient use curl_multi_handle instead of creating a thread for every request and it's able to reuse connections now. (#1317)

Metrics Features

• Enable bazel build for metrics proto files #1489
• Add metrics OTLP/HTTP exporter #1487
• OTLP gRPC Metrics Exporter #1454

OpenTelemetry C++ v1.4.1

v1.4.1 release

Release of core packages

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp (gRPC + HTTP/JSON)
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger (thrift + UDP/HTTP)

Changelog

API

• No API change.

SDK

• fix: WaitOnSocket select error when sockfd above FD_SETSIZE (#1410)
• fix OTEL_INTERNAL_LOG_INFO (#1407)

Build

• Upgrade nlohmann_json to 3.10.5 (#1441)
• install sdk-config.h (#1419)
• fix nlohmann_json's (third party) include dir (#1415)

Example

• Log current timestamp instead of epoch time (#1434)

Docs

• Fixed broken link to OpenTelemetry.io (#1446)
• Fix GettingStarted documentation for Jaeger HTTP exporter (#1439)
• Document Getting Started with Prometheus and Grafana (#1396)

Metrics features

• Fix variables inizialization (#1430)
• fix histogram (#1440)
• Add attributes/dimensions to metrics ostream exporter (#1400)
• Only record non-negative / finite / Non-NAN histogram values (#1427)
• Pass state to async callback function. (#1408)

OpenTelemetry C++ v1.4.0

v1.4.0 release

Release of core packages

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp (gRPC + HTTP/JSON)
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger (thrift + UDP/HTTP)

Changelog

API

• Upgrade proto to v0.17.0, update log data model (#1383)
• Add noexcept/const qualifier at missing places for Trace API. (#1374)
• Update yield logic for ARM processor (#1325)

SDK

• Get span_id from context when Logger::Log received invalid span_id (#1398)
• Fix sharing resource in batched exported spans (#1386)
• Fix empty tracestate header propagation (#1373)
• Fix baggage propagation for empty/invalid baggage context (#1367)
• Add explicit type cast in baggage UrlDecode (#1353)

Exporters

• Fix scalar delete against array (#1356)
• Conditional include for codecvt header (#1355)
• Prometheus exporter (#1331)

Build

• Alpine image (#1382)
• Fix missing link to nlohmann_json (#1390)
• Prometheus exporter meters and instrument name (#1378)
• Export opentelemetry_otlp_recordable (#1365)
• Add missing include guard (#1357)
• Use latest TraceLoggingDynamic.h (#1354)
• ostream metrics cmake (#1344)
• Link opentelemetry_ext with opentelemetry_api (#1336)
• Dependencies image as artifact (#1333)
• Fix Ninja path (#1326)
• Fix metrics compiler warnings (#1328)

Metrics features

• Connect async storage with async instruments (#1388)
• Reuse temporal metric storage for sync storage (#1369)
• Fix class member initialization order (#1360)
• Simplify SDK Configuration: Use View with default aggregation if no matching View is configured (#1358)
• Remove exporter registration to meter provider (#1350)
• Fix output time in metrics OStream exporter (#1346)
• Enable metric collection for Async Instruments - Delta and Cumulative (#1334)
• Metrics histogram example (#1330)
• Implement Merge and Diff operation for Histogram Aggregation (#1303)

Examples

• Prometheus example (#1332)

Docs

• Getting started document using ostream exporter (#1394)

Notes:

• This release includes alpha milestone of OpenTelemetry Metrics.
• The name parameter for Log APIs is deprecated and will be removed in future releases. See details in CHANGELOG.md

OpenTelemetry C++ v1.3.0

v1.3.0 release

Release of core packages

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp (gRPC + HTTP/JSON)
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger (thrift + UDP/HTTP)

Changelog

API

• Allow extension of the lifetime of ContextStorage. (#1214)

SDK

• Bugfix: span SetAttribute crash (#1283)
• Reorder the destructor of members in LoggerProvider and TracerProvider (#1245)

Exporters

• ETW provider handle cleanup (#1322)
• Fix: use CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS to config OtlpHttpExporter's timeout instead of CURLOPT_TIMEOUT (#1261)
• Jaeger Exporter - Populate Span Links (#1251)

Build

• Move public definitions into opentelemetry_api. (#1314)
• Rename http_client_curl to opentelemetry_http_client_curl (#1301)
• Update grpc to v1.43.2 to support VS2022/MSVC 19.30 and bazel 5.0 (#1207)

Experimental metrics features

• OStream example (#1312)
• Add InstrumentationInfo and Resource to the metrics data to be exported. (#1299)
• Implement periodic exporting metric reader (#1286)
• Synchronous Metric collection (Delta , Cumulative) (#1265)
• Metrics exemplar round 1 (#1264)
• Enable metric collection from MetricReader (#1241)
• Asynchronous Aggregation storage (#1232)
• Synchronous Instruments - Aggregation Storage(s) creation for configured views (#1219)
• Add Aggregation storage (#1213)
• Ostream metric exporter (#1196)
• Filtering metrics attributes (#1191)
• Sync and Async Instruments SDK (#1184)
• Add Aggregation as part of metrics SDK. (#1178)

Notes:

#1301 added opentelemetry_ as prefix to http_client_curl library for resolving potential naming conflict, this could break existing cmake build if http_client_curl is listed as explicit dependency in user's cmake file.

opentelemetry v1.2.0

v1.2.0 release

Release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger ( thrift + UDP/HTTP )

Changelog

API

• Allow to use external abseil for bazel targets (#1172)

Exporters

• InMemorySpanExporter shutdown fix (#1161)
• Fix leak in Jaeger exporter (#1160)
• Importing gsl::span if std::span is not available (#1167)
• Synchronized calls to Exporter::Export & Shutdown (#1164)
• OTLP http exporter block thread (#1163)

Experimental features

• Logger: propagating resources through LoggerProvider (#1154)
• Logger: support for instrumentation library (#1149)
• Add log level for internal log of sdk (#1147)
• Metrics SDK: View API (#1110)

Notes on experimental features:

#1149 and #1154 from above list introduced API changes which are not backward compatible with previous logs, please update API package to this release if ENABLE_LOGS_PREVIEW is turned on (it is turned off by default).

opentelemetry v1.1.1

v1.1.1 release

Release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger ( thrift + UDP/HTTP )

Changelog

SDK

• Rename OTEL_CPP_GET_ATTR macro, and define it using fully qualified attr function (#1140)
• Default resource attributes and attributes in OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES are missing when using Otlp*LogExporter (#1082)

Exporters

• Add OTLP/gRPC Log Exporter (#1048)
• Add OTLP/HTTP Log Exporter (#1030)
• [EXPORTER] ZipkinExporter shutdown (#1153)
• [EXPORTER] Jaeger exporter shutdown (#1150)
• [EXPORTER] Bugfix: jaeger::TUDPTransport::write crash when getaddrinfo returns error (#1116)
• [EXPORTER] Bugfix: Jaeger exporter: extend supported attributes types (#1106)
• [EXPORTER] Fix otlp generates null span ids (#1113)
• [EXPORTER] Jaeger bazel (Linux only) (#1077)

Build

• Mark tags to bazel targets (#1075)

Docs

• Add note on DLL support (#1137)
• Improve the instructions for Bazel build (#1136)
• Document dependencies (#1119)
• Dockerfile for quick demo/troubleshooting purpose (#905)

Example

• OTLP gRPC log example (#1083)

Metrics

• Add Meter and MeterProvider in the SDK (#1078)

opentelemetry v1.1.0

v1.1.0 release

Release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger ( thrift + UDP/HTTP )

Changelog

SDK

• Bugfix: regex is neither working on GCC 4.9.x (#1069)
• Improvement: span_id should not break strict aliasing. (#1068)
• OTLP gRPC log export should fail after shutdown (#1064)
• [SDK] fix: issue 368- consistent namespace scope resolution (#1008)

OTLP

• checkout opentelemetry-proto v0.11.0 (#1055)

OTLP Log Exporter (preview)

• Add OTLP/gRPC Log Exporter (#1048)
• Add OTLP/HTTP Log Exporter (#1030)

Prometheus Exporter

• Prometheus Exporter (#1031)

Build

• Build release tarball when nlohmann-json not installed (#1074)
• Build OTLP exporter from the release tarball (#1056)

Example

• OTLP HTTP log example (#1062)

Metrics

• Move old metrics implementation to different directory, and rename targets to _deprecated (#1053)

opentelemetry v1.0.1

v1.0.1 release

Release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger ( thrift + UDP/HTTP )

Changelog

API

• 🚀 Adding new Logger:log() method (#1005)

SDK

• 🚀 Add schema_url support to both Resource and InstrumentationLibrary (#979)

ETW Exporter

• 🚀 Exports span attributes to ETW (#1021)
• 🚀 ETW Log Exporter (#1006)

OTLP Exporter

• Change OTLP/HTTP default port from 4317 to 4318 (#1018)
• 🐛 Remove scheme from OTLP endpoint before passing to gRPC (#988)
• 🚀 Support environment variables for both OtlpGrpcExporter and OtlpHttpExporter (#983)

BUILD

• cmake: Add FindThrift.cmake find module method for thrift (#1020)
• Fix nlohmann_json package dependency (#1017)
• Update opentelemetry-proto for bazel build to 0.9.0 (#984)
• Cross compling grpc_cpp_plugin not found bug (#982)
• 🐛 Fix build issue where memcpy was not declared in scope (#985)

opentelemetry v1.0.0

v1.0.0 release

Release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger ( thrift + UDP/HTTP )

Changelog

API

• Document DefaultSpan, remove DefaultTracer (#959)
• Separate baggage<->Context api from Baggage Propagator (#963)
• Remove unused public API to_span_ptr (#964)
• 💥 Make span context management public (#967)
• Support determining parent span from Context while creating new Span (#969)
• 💥 Traces: Add note on experimental semantic convention implementation, prefix semantics headers with experimental tag (#970)
• Increment OPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO to 1 (#980)

SDK

• Clean up GetEnvironmentVariable and remove unused variable under NO_GETENV (#976)
• 💥 Resources: Add note on experimental semantic convention implementation, prefix semantics headers with experimental tag (#970)

OTLP Exporter

• 🐛 Ignore status description if status code is not Error (#962)
• 💥 Make Otlp exporter configuration environment variables specs-compliant (#974)

Zipkin Exporter

• 🐛 Don't set parentId in case parentId is empty (#943)
• 🚀 Extend zipkin exporter with ability to provide headers (#951)

DOCS

• 📖 Add getting-started documentation for SDK: (#942)
• 📖 Remove unnecessary spaces and spelling of gRPC in README (#965)

BUILD

• Disable bazel build for gcc 4.8, upgrade versions for grpc(v1.39.1) and bazel(4.2.0), document bazel support (#953)
• Move CMake config template to cmake folder (#958)
• Enable CMake to search the new package variable <PackageName>_ROOT (#975)
• 🐛 Do not override CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD (#977)

🚧 Experiemental Features (Will change in future)

• Semantic Conventions for traces - As the specs is still experimental, the implementation will change in future.
• Semantic Convention for resource - As the specs is still experimental, the implementation will change in future.
• Logs and Metrics API & SDK - These are not compliant, and are behind feature flag. Not recommended to use for now.

opentelemetry v1.0.0-rc4

v1.0.0-rc4 release:
Release Candidate of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger ( thrift + UDP/HTTP )

Changelog:

• [EXPORTER] BREAKING CHANGE Fix default HTTP port for OTLP HTTP Exporter (#939)
• [API] Fix timeout calculation for Tracer::Flush() and Tracer::Close() (#937)
• [API] Fix for Stack::Resize that new_capacity is not assigned to capacity_ (#934)
• [SDK] Fix race condition in circular buffer simulation test (#931)
• [EXPORTER] Fix error logging in Jaeger Exporter (#930)
• [BUILD] Use latest grpc version (v1.39.0) for cmake build of otlp exporter (#927)
• [EXPORTER] Add Jaeger Thrift HTTP exporter (#926)
• [SDK] Move env-var read logic to common dir, and optional reading of env-var (#924)
• [EXPORTER] Remove recordable header from CMake install rules for exporters (#923)
• [EXPORTER] BREAKING CHANGE Rename Recordable to JaegerRecordable in Jaeger exporter (#919)
• [EXPORTER] BREAKING CHANGE Rename Jaeger exporter target (#918)
• [EXPORTER] Add Zipkin exporter example (#917)
• [EXPORTER] Bazel build for Zipkin exorter (#916)
• [BUILD] Allow to use local GSL (#915)
• [DOCS] Document vcpkg toolchain configuration (#913)
• [SDK] Fix for resource deletion after tracer provider shutdown (#911)
• [BUILD] Add bazel build for grpc example (#910)
• [EXPORTER] Add resource and instrumentation library support for OStreamSpanExporter (#906)
• [API] Adding semantic-convention attributes for trace (#868)