go.opentelemetry.io/otel

Fixed

• json stdout exporter no longer crashes due to concurrency bug. (#2265)

This is the first stable release for the project. This release includes an API and SDK for the tracing signal that will comply with the stability guarantees defined by the projects versioning policy.

Added

• OTLP trace exporter now sets the SchemaURL field in the exported telemetry if the Tracer has WithSchemaURL option. (#2242)

Fixed

• Slice-valued attributes can correctly be used as map keys. (#2223)

Removed

• Removed the "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/zipkin".WithSDKOptions function. (#2248)
• Removed the deprecated package go.opentelemetry.io/otel/oteltest. (#2234)
• Removed the deprecated package go.opentelemetry.io/otel/bridge/opencensus/utils. (#2233)
• Removed deprecated functions, types, and methods from go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute package. Use the typed functions and methods added to the package instead. (#2235)
  • The Key.Array method is removed.
  • The Array function is removed.
  • The Any function is removed.
  • The ArrayValue function is removed.
  • The AsArray function is removed.

Added

• Added ErrorHandlerFunc to use a function as an "go.opentelemetry.io/otel".ErrorHandler. (#2149)
• Added "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace".WithStackTrace option to add a stack trace when using span.RecordError or when panic is handled in span.End. (#2163)
• Added typed slice attribute types and functionality to the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute package to replace the existing array type and functions. (#2162)
  • BoolSlice, IntSlice, Int64Slice, Float64Slice, and StringSlice replace the use of the Array function in the package.
• Added the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/example/fib example package. Included is an example application that computes Fibonacci numbers. (#2203)

Changed

• Metric instruments have been renamed to match the (feature-frozen) metric API specification:
  • ValueRecorder becomes Histogram
  • ValueObserver becomes Gauge
  • SumObserver becomes CounterObserver
  • UpDownSumObserver becomes UpDownCounterObserver The API exported from this project is still considered experimental. (#2202)
• Metric SDK/API implementation type InstrumentKind moves into sdkapi sub-package. (#2091)
• The Metrics SDK export record no longer contains a Resource pointer, the SDK "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace/export/metric".Exporter.Export() function for push-based exporters now takes a single Resource argument, pull-based exporters use "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/controller/basic".Controller.Resource(). (#2120)
• The JSON output of the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdouttrace is harmonized now such that the output is "plain" JSON objects after each other of the form { ... } { ... } { ... }. Earlier the JSON objects describing a span were wrapped in a slice for each Exporter.ExportSpans call, like [ { ... } ][ { ... } { ... } ]. Outputting JSON object directly after each other is consistent with JSON loggers, and a bit easier to parse and read. (#2196)
• Update the NewTracerConfig, NewSpanStartConfig, NewSpanEndConfig, and NewEventConfig function in the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace package to return their respective configurations as structs instead of pointers to the struct. (#2212)

Deprecated

• The go.opentelemetry.io/otel/bridge/opencensus/utils package is deprecated. All functionality from this package now exists in the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/bridge/opencensus package. The functions from that package should be used instead. (#2166)
• The "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute".Array function and the related ARRAY value type is deprecated. Use the typed *Slice functions and types added to the package instead. (#2162)
• The "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute".Any function is deprecated. Use the typed functions instead. (#2181)
• The go.opentelemetry.io/otel/oteltest package is deprecated. The "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace/tracetest".SpanRecorder can be registered with the default SDK (go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace) as a SpanProcessor and used as a replacement for this deprecated package. (#2188)

Removed

• Removed metrics test package go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/export/metric/metrictest. (#2105)

Fixed

• The fromEnv detector no longer throws an error when OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES environment variable is not set or empty. (#2138)
• Setting the global ErrorHandler with "go.opentelemetry.io/otel".SetErrorHandler multiple times is now supported. (#2160, #2140)
• The "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute".Any function now supports int32 values. (#2169)
• Multiple calls to "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/controller/basic".WithResource() are handled correctly, and when no resources are provided "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource".Default() is used. (#2120)
• The WithoutTimestamps option for the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdouttrace exporter causes the exporter to correctly omit timestamps. (#2195)
• Fixed typos in resources.go. (#2201)