v0.38.0

v0.38.0

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• datadogexporter Make distributions the default histogram export option. (#5885)
• redisreceiver Update Redis receiver's metric names. (#5837)
• Remove scraperhelper from contrib, use the core version. (#5826)

🚀 New components 🚀

• googlecloudspannerreceiver Added implementation of Google Cloud Spanner receiver. (#5727)
• awsxrayproxy Wire up awsxrayproxy extension. (#5747)
• awscontainerinsightreceiver Enable AWS Container Insight receiver. (#5960)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• statsdreceiver: fix start timestamp / temporality for counters. (#5714)
• Fix security issue related to github.com/tidwall/gjson. (#5936)
• datadogexporter Fix cumulative histogram handling in distributions mode (#5867)
• datadogexporter Skip nil sketches (#5925)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Extend kafkareceiver configuration capabilities. (#5677)
• Convert mongodbatlas receiver to use scraperhelper. (#5827)
• Convert dockerstats receiver to use scraperhelper. (#5825)
• Convert podman receiver to use scraperhelper. (#5822)
• Convert redisreceiver to use scraperhelper. (#5796)
• Convert kubeletstats receiver to use scraperhelper. (#5821)
• googlecloudspannerreceiver Migrated Google Cloud Spanner receiver to scraper approach. (#5868)
• datadogexporter Use a Consumer interface for decoupling from zorkian's package. (#5315)
• mdatagen - Add support for extended metric descriptions (#5688)
• signalfxexporter Log datapoints option. (#5689)
• cumulativetodeltaprocessor: Update cumulative to delta. (#5772)
• Update configuration default values in log receivers docs. (#5840)
• fluentforwardreceiver: support more complex fluent-bit objects. (#5676)
• datadogexporter Remove spammy logging. (#5856)
• datadogexporter Remove obsolete report_buckets config. (#5858)
• Improve performance of metric expression matcher. (#5864)
• tanzuobservabilityexporter Introduce metricsConsumer and gaugeMetricConsumer. (#5426)
• awsxrayexporter rpc.system has priority to determine aws namespace. (#5833)
• tailsamplingprocessor Add support for composite sampling policy to the tailsampler. (#4958)
• kafkaexporter Add support for AWS_MSK_IAM SASL Auth (#5763)
• Refactor the client Authenticators for the new "ClientAuthenticator" interfaces (#5905)
• mongodbatlasreceiver Add client wrapper for MongoDB Atlas support (#5386)
• redisreceiver Update Redis config options (#5861)
• routingprocessor: allow routing for all signals (#5869)
• extension/observer/docker add ListAndWatch to observer (#5851)