Observe Agent

• feat: add prometheus exporter

Features

• feat: add sqlserver receiver and logdedup processor, bump otelcol to 0.144.0

Bug fixes

• fix: bump Go to v1.24.13

Other

• fix(packaging/docker): bump alpine image to address CVE-2025-15467

Features

• feat(heartbeat): include more identifiers

Bug fixes

• fix(deps): update otelcol to 0.143.0
• fix: don't write agentVersion to file

Other

• chore: recalibrate workflow permissions

Features

• feat: add postgresql receiver
• feat: add shutdown event and standardize on camelCase for JSON body
• feat: add syslog exporter
• feat: add syslogreceiver
• feat: bump golang to 1.24.11
• feat: bump otelcol to v0.141.0

Bug fixes

• fix: add max limit for config interval
• fix: improve observe-agent config validation, attempt to start even when config validation fails

Features

• feat: add routing connector

Bug fixes

• fix: heartbeat receiver improvements
• fix: open up permissions on local data file

Features

• feat: add RED metrics config options for dimensionality and filtering
• feat: add auth logging headers to heartbeat exporter
• feat: add more facets + fields to heartbeat event
• feat: add omit_base_components config option to use minimal bundled config
• feat: add optional cumulative to delta processor for forwarded OTLP metrics
• feat: add resource/agent_instance processor to all logging and internal metrics when fleet is enabled
• feat: implement config heartbeat event
• feat: set env var OBSERVE_AGENT_ENVIRONMENT to the OS/bundled config name
• feat: split out logs for observe agent in windows and add agent instance
• feat: update golang to 1.24.9
• feat: upgrade golang to 1.24.8
• feat: upgrade to OTel version 0.138.0

Bug fixes

• fix: remove agent_instance from other unrelated pipelines
• fix: use configured port for self monitoring metrics, clean up bundled config templates

Others

• chore: switch template functions to Sprig to match Helm syntax
• chore: update goreleaser version

Features

• feat: Add heartbeat receiver configs
• feat: Add restart on install to linux postinstall/postremove scripts
• feat: Heartbeat Receiver + ENV Var logic
• feat: add integration test that covers upgrade path
• feat: add jmx receiver
• feat: bump to otel col version 0.135.0

Bug fixes

• fix: Continue setting env vars even when agentresource creation fails
• fix: Revert "fix: restart agent on restart on debian"
• fix: have agent restart on upgrade on debian
• fix: restart service on debian and RHEL
• fix: update postinstall script syntax

Others

• Move timeout from 25 minutes to 35 minutes
• chore: bump alpine version, address vulnerabilities
• chore: ignore vendor files and test data in orca scans, clean up warnings
• chore: update windows test AMI IDs

• feat: bump to otel col version 0.135.0

• fix: pin prometheus version to fix observe-agent metric output format and status check

Features

• feat: add RED_metrics flag to init-config
• feat: add config option for otlp receiver endpoints
• feat: add metricstransformprocessor
• feat: upgrade otel to v0.131.0

Bug Fixes

• fix: make mac install script executable
• fix: remove setting of stable feature gates, add feature gate error logging
• fix: update github.com/docker/docker package to fix vulnerability
• fix: updated gh workflows to go 1.24.6

Others

• fix OTel version in the README
• update golang version to 1.24.6

Bug fixes

• fix: always default span and RED metrics service resource attributes to empty string
• fix: improve naming of RED metric attributes
• fix: use proper attribute name in ottl check for observe.status_code

• fix: use env as default config resolve schema

Features

• feat: add an option to generate RED metrics from spans.
• The traces/forward pipeline now defaults to dropping spans with duration longer than one hour to match Observe Trace Explorer behavior. This can be configured via the forwarding.traces.max_span_duration config option.

What's new in version 2.6.0:

• JSON schema for our observe-agent.yaml config file. This makes editing the agent config much easier and safer.
• New config validate command which we can now use to validate our helm chart output.
• Added the groupbyattrsprocessor.
• All bundled config is now part of the build, so no need for all of the extra template files on disk.