What is changing?

Last year we shared out intention to unify egress using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) exporter. Now, we’re starting to implement this: the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) collector will start deprecating third party exporters starting from v0.39.0 . The OTLP Exporter helps standardize how data can be exported from ADOT, ensuring minimal security risks and providing the reliable support that you expect from ADOT.

What do I need to do if I’m using third party components?

You are affected if you are using one of the following exporters present in the ADOT collector:

• datadog
• logzio
• sapm
• signalfx

You can enable the functionality behind the feature gate, you can pass the --feature-gates=-adot.exporter.<component-name>.deprecation in the command line parameter.

In ADOT Collector v0.39.0, the feature gate is disabled by default. In a future ADOT Collector release this feature gate will be enabled by default.