v0.6.0

0.6.0

This release is built on top of OpenTelemetry .NET:

• Core components: 1.4.0
• System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource: 7.0.0

Changed

• Updated Core components: 1.4.0.

v0.6.0-beta.2

This beta release is built on top of OpenTelemetry .NET:

• Core components: 1.4.0-rc.4
• System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource: 7.0.0

Added

• Support for systems with glibc versions 2.17-2.29.

Changed

• Updated Core components: 1.4.0-rc.4.
• Replace OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_LEGACY_SOURCES with OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_TRACES_ADDITIONAL_LEGACY_SOURCES.
• Updated the shared store to correctly support framework roll-forward from net6.0 to net7.0.

Removed

• Remove support for plugin method ConfigureMetricsOptions(OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.Process.ProcessInstrumentationOptions).

Fixed

• Fix location of OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation.Native.so for linux-musl-x64.
• Fix issues when instrumenting dotnet CLI #1477.

v0.6.0-beta.1

This beta release is built on top of OpenTelemetry .NET:

• Core components: 1.4.0-rc.3
• System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource: 7.0.0

Added

• Support configuring OTEL_* settings using App.config and Web.config.
• Add support for Quartz traces instrumentation.
• Add support for EntityFrameworkCore traces instrumentations.
• Add plugin support for
  ResourceBuilder ConfigureResource(ResourceBuilder builder).

Changed

• Updated Core components: 1.4.0-rc.3

• Move OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation.Native.so to linux-x64 directory in tracer-home for Linux glibc, OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation.Native.so to linux-musl-x64 for Linux musl and OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation.Native.dylib to osx-x64 for MacOS.

• Change the way to manage enabled instrumentations. The following environmental variables:

  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_TRACES_ENABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_TRACES_DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_METRICS_ENABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_METRICS_DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_LOGS_ENABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_LOGS_DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS

  are replaced by:

  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_INSTRUMENTATION_ENABLED,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_TRACES_INSTRUMENTATION_ENABLED,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_TRACES_{0}_INSTRUMENTATION_ENABLED,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_METRICS_INSTRUMENTATION_ENABLED,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_METRICS_{0}_INSTRUMENTATION_ENABLED,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_LOGS_INSTRUMENTATION_ENABLED,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_LOGS_{0}_INSTRUMENTATION_ENABLED.

• Change instrumentation id for ASP.NET Core traces and metrics instrumentation from AspNet to ASPNETCORE.

Fixed

• Fix console error messages Log: Exception creating FileSink #1885

v0.5.1-beta.3

This beta release is built on top of OpenTelemetry .NET:

• Core components: 1.4.0-rc.1
• System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource: 7.0.0

Added

• Add support for NServiceBus metrics and traces instrumentations.
• Add support for Elasticsearch traces instrumentations.
• Add plugin support for ConfigureTracesOptions(StackExchangeRedisCallsInstrumentationOptions options).
• Add plugin support for ConfigureMetricsOptions(AspNetCoreMetricsInstrumentationOptions options).
• Add automatic assembly redirection for .NET Framework applications. The redirection can be enabled or disabled via the OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_NETFX_REDIRECT_ENABLED environment variable. See the additional settings table for details.

Changed

• Updated Core components: 1.4.0-rc.1

Removed

• Remove support for Jaeger exporter.

Fixed

• Fix WCF instrumentation on .NET Framework.

v0.5.1-beta.2

Added

• Add support for OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER and OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER_ARG.
• Add Initializing plugin extension point
  that is invoked before OpenTelemetry SDK configuration.

0.5.1-beta.1

This beta release is built on top of OpenTelemetry .NET:

• Core components: 1.4.0-beta.3
• System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource: 7.0.0

Added

• Add support for OTEL_BSP_SCHEDULE_DELAY, OTEL_BSP_EXPORT_TIMEOUT, OTEL_BSP_MAX_QUEUE_SIZE, OTEL_BSP_MAX_EXPORT_BATCH_SIZE.
• Add support for OTEL_METRIC_EXPORT_TIMEOUT.
• Add support for OTEL_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_LENGTH_LIMIT, OTEL_ATTRIBUTE_COUNT_LIMIT, OTEL_SPAN_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_LENGTH_LIMIT, OTEL_SPAN_ATTRIBUTE_COUNT_LIMIT, OTEL_SPAN_EVENT_COUNT_LIMIT, OTEL_SPAN_LINK_COUNT_LIMIT, OTEL_EVENT_ATTRIBUTE_COUNT_LIMIT, OTEL_LINK_ATTRIBUTE_COUNT_LIMIT for otlp exporter.

Changed

• Updated Core components: 1.4.0-beta.3
• Updated plugins method signature to overwrite OpenTelemetry .NET SDK exporters' and instrumentations' options. ConfigureOptions changed to ConfigureTracesOptions, ConfigureMetricsOptions or ConfigureLogsOptions.

v0.5.0

The is the first production-ready (non-beta) release. It is not stable yet.

Added

• Add support for .NET 7.
• Add support for OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_LOGS_ENABLED.
• Add error log if bytecode instrumentation type is missing all instrumentation methods.
• Plugins can overwrite OpenTelemetry .NET SDK exporters' and instrumentations' options.

Changed

• Replace OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_LOAD_TRACER_AT_STARTUP with OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_TRACES_ENABLED and OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_LOAD_METER_AT_STARTUP with OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_METRICS_ENABLED.
• Disable OpenTracing by default. OpenTracing can be re-enabled via OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_OPENTRACING_ENABLED.
• GraphQL exceptions are recorded as OTel events.
• DOTNET_STARTUP_HOOKS required value changed to $INSTALL_DIR/net/OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation.StartupHook.dll.

Removed

• Remove support for .NET Core 3.1.
• Remove support for OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_HTTP2UNENCRYPTEDSUPPORT_ENABLED.
• Remove support for OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_ENABLED. Use CORECLR_ENABLE_PROFILING or COR_ENABLE_PROFILING instead.
• Remove support for OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_INCLUDE_PROCESSES.

Fixed

• Fix the IIS registration in the PowerShell script module for Windows Server 2016.
• Fix the IIS unregistration in the PowerShell script module.
• Get rid of unnecessary service restarts during the IIS unregistration, in the PowerShell script module.
• OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_TRACES_ENABLED is also respected by bytecode instrumentations.

v0.4.0-beta.1

Added

• Add WCF traces instrumentation (server-side for .NET Framework, client-side for both .NET Core and .NET Framework).
• Support ASP.NET Core OpenTelemetry Log exporter related environment variables:
  • OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_LOGS_CONSOLE_EXPORTER_ENABLED,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_LOGS_ENABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_LOGS_DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS,
  • OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_LOGS_INCLUDE_FORMATTED_MESSAGE.
• Support OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_GRAPHQL_SET_DOCUMENT (default value: false) environment variable which controls whether graphql.document attribute is set.
• Add ILogger logging instrumentation for .NET Core 3.1+.
• Add telemetry resource attributes.
• Add support for the b3 propagator.
• Add MassTransit traces instrumentation.
• Add OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation Nuget package.
• Support for Process metrics collection using the OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.Process package.
• Add Shell scripts for downloading and installing OpenTelemetry .NET Automatic Instrumentation and instrumenting .NET applications.
• Add PowerShell script module for downloading and installing OpenTelemetry .NET Automatic Instrumentation and instrumenting .NET applications.

Changed

• Replaced OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_TRACES_PLUGINS and OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_METRICS_PLUGINS with new environment variable OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_PLUGINS.
• Adjusted tags for MongoDB integration. See pull request for more details.
• Extend MySql.Data traces instrumentation for versions 8.0.31+. Versions 8.0.31+ require bytecode instrumentation.

Removed

• Removed support for MongoDB integration for MongoDB.Driver.Core prior to 2.13.3.

Fixed

• Log folder structure is fully created on Linux.
• Update GraphQL instrumentation to follow the OpenTelemetry semantic conventions.
• Fixed the race between requesting ReJIT of methods targeted for bytecode instrumentation and their first execution. The race allowed, in rare occasions, for the first few executions of the method to not be instrumented. See issue #1242.
• Span kind for GraphQL instrumentation is set as span property instead of attribute.

v0.3.1-beta.1

This release is built on top of OpenTelemetry .NET:

• Core components: 1.3.1
• System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource: 6.0.0

Added

• Add support for Alpine.
• Add strong name signature to the OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation assembly used
  on the .NET Framework.

Changed

• Extend StackExchange.Redis traces instrumentation for versions 2.6.66+.
• Updated Core components: 1.3.1

v0.3.0-beta.1

This release add various new instrumentations and more propagation options.

Added

• Add Grpc.Net.Client traces instrumentation.
• Add MySql.Data traces instrumentation.
• Add Npgsql traces instrumentation.
• Add StackExchange.Redis traces instrumentation.
• Add configuration option none to OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_TRACES_ENABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS
  and OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_METRICS_ENABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS.
• Add support for the b3multi propagator.
• Add support for the OTEL_PROPAGATORS environment variable.
  Supported configuration options are b3multi, baggage, tracecontext.
  Default is tracecontext,baggage.

Changed

• Renamed OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_TRACES_ENABLED to OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_ENABLED since it
  controls enabling or disabling the CLR profiler independent of the signal type.
• OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_TRACES_ENABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS default value is changed to
  include all of the available instrumentations.
• OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_METRICS_ENABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS default value is changed to
  include all of the available instrumentations.
• Changed Tracing sampler from always_on to parentbased_always_on.
  See the OpenTelemetry specification
  for more details.

Removed

• Remove OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_DOMAIN_NEUTRAL_INSTRUMENTATION configuration
  as it is not needed.
• Remove OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_{0}_ENABLED configuration,
  use OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_[TRACES/METRICS]_[ENABLED/DISABLED]_INSTRUMENTATIONS
  instead.
• Remove OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_METRICS_ENABLED configuration as it is not needed.