Release version 0.7.0

v0.7.0 Beta

🚀 New components 🚀

• Receivers
  • fluentfoward runs a TCP server that accepts events via the Fluent Forward protocol (#1173)
• Exporters
  • kafka exports traces to Kafka (#1439)
• Extensions
  • Experimental fluenetbit facilitates running a FluentBit subprocess of the collector (#1381)

💡 Enhancements

• Updated golang/protobuf from v1.3.5 to v1.4.2 (#1308)
• Updated opencensus-proto from v0.2.1 to v0.3.0 (#1308)
• Added round_robin balancer_name as an option to gRPC client settings (#1353)
• hostmetrics receiver
  • Switch to using perf counters to get disk io metrics on Windows (#1340)
  • Add device filter for file system (#1379) and disk (#1378) scrapers
  • Record process physical & virtual memory stats separately (#1403)
  • Scrape system.disk.time on Windows (#1408)
  • Add disk.pending_operations metric (#1428)
  • Add network interface label to network metrics (#1377)
• Add exporterhelper (#1351) and processorhelper (#1359) factories
• Update OTLP to latest version (#1384)
• Disable timeout, retry on failure and sending queue for logging exporter (#1400)
• Add support for retry and sending queue for jaeger exporter (#1401)
• Add batch size bytes metric to batch processor (#1270)
• otlp receiver: Add Log Support (#1444)
• Allow to configure read/write buffer sizes for http Client (#1447)
• Update DB conventions to latest and add exception conventions (#1452)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Fix resource processor for old metrics (#1412)
• jaeger receiver: Do not try to stop if failed to start. Collector service will do that (#1434)