This file contains individual changes for the OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Console package. For highlights and announcements covering all components see: Release Notes.
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Added direct reference to
System.Text.Jsonfor thenet8.0target with minimum version of8.0.5in response to CVE-2024-30105 & CVE-2024-43485. (#5874, #5891) -
Added support for Instrumentation Scope Attributes (i.e ActivitySource.Tags) when writing traces to the console. (#5935)
Released 2024-Sep-30
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- The experimental APIs previously covered by
OTEL1000(LoggerProviderBuilder.AddConsoleExporterextension) are now part of the public API and supported in stable builds. (#5648)
Released 2024-May-20
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- Added support for
ActivitySource.Versionproperty. (#5472)
Released 2024-Mar-27
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Released 2023-Dec-08
Released 2023-Nov-29
- Added support for Instrumentation Scope Attributes (i.e Meter.Tags), when writing metrics to the console, fixing issue #4563. (#5089)
Released 2023-Oct-16
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Experimental (pre-release builds only):
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Note: See #4735 for the introduction of experimental api support.
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Add back support for Exemplars. See exemplars for instructions to enable exemplars. (#4553)
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Updated to display
SeverityandSeverityTexttext instead ofILogger.LogLevelwhen exportingLogRecordinstances. (#4568) -
Added
LoggerProviderBuilder.AddConsoleExporterregistration extension. (#4583)
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Released 2023-Jun-26
Released 2023-Jun-05
- Remove support for exporting
Exemplars. This would be added back in the1.6.*prerelease versions right after1.5.0stable version is released. (#4533)
Released 2023-May-25
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Add display of bucket boundaries when using exponential histograms. (#4507)
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Added direct reference to
System.Text.Encodings.Webwith minimum version of4.7.2in response to CVE-2021-26701. (#4390) -
Updated
LogRecordconsole output:Bodyis now shown (if set),StateValuesare now written asAttributes, andStateis no longer processed. (#4334)
Released 2023-Mar-31
Released 2023-Mar-07
- Added Exemplar support. See exemplars for instructions to enable exemplars.
Released 2023-Feb-24
- Updated OTel SDK dependency to 1.4.0
Released 2023-Feb-10
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Released 2022-Dec-12
- Bug fix to prevent ConsoleExporter from failing when exporting an
ActivityLinkwithout Tags. (#3932)
Released 2022-Nov-07
- Bumped the minimum required version of
System.Text.Jsonto 4.7.2 in response to CVE-2021-26701. (#3789)
LogRecordExporter to print full exception details instead of just Message, when
using ILogger to log exception.
(#3784)
Added support to print Histogram Min, Max in MetricExporter.
Released 2022-Oct-17
Released 2022-Sep-29
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Changed the behavior of
ConsoleExporter, the exporter will stop outputting the data if it is disposed. (#3578) -
Added overloads which accept a name to the
MeterProviderBuilderAddConsoleExporterextension to allow for more fine-grained options management (#3648) -
Added overloads which accept a name to the
TracerProviderBuilderAddConsoleExporterextension to allow for more fine-grained options management (#3657)
Released 2022-Aug-18
Released 2022-Aug-02
- The
MetricReaderOptionsdefaults can be overridden usingOTEL_METRIC_EXPORT_INTERVALandOTEL_METRIC_EXPORT_TIMEOUTenvironmental variables as defined in the specification. (#3424)
Released 2022-Jun-03
Released 2022-June-1
- Improve the conversion and formatting of attribute values.
The list of data types that must be supported per the
OpenTelemetry specification
is more narrow than what the .NET OpenTelemetry SDK supports. Numeric
built-in value types
are supported by converting to a
longordoubleas appropriate except for numeric types that could cause overflow (ulong) or rounding (decimal) which are converted to strings. Non-numeric built-in types -string,char,boolare supported. All other types are converted to astring. Array values are also supported. (#3311) - Fix conversion of array-valued attributes. They were previously converted to a string like "System.String[]". (#3311)
Released 2022-May-16
Released 2022-Apr-15
- Removes .NET Framework 4.6.1. The minimum .NET Framework version supported is .NET 4.6.2. (#3190)
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Added StatusCode, StatusDescription support to
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AddConsoleExporterextension method by default sets up exporter to export metrics every 10 seconds.
Released 2022-Mar-04
- Removes metric related configuration options from
ConsoleExporterOptions.MetricReaderType,PeriodicExporterMetricReaderOptions, andTemporalityare now configurable via theMetricReaderOptions. (#2929)
Released 2022-Feb-02
Fix MetricExporter to respect Console and Debug flags.
Added Activity.Links support to ConsoleActivityExporter.
Released 2021-Nov-29
- Added configuration options for
MetricReaderTypeto allow for configuring theConsoleMetricExporterto export either manually or periodically. (#2648)
Released 2021-Nov-19
Released 2021-Oct-08
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Released 2021-Aug-24
- Add Histogram Metrics support.
- Changed default temporality to be cumulative.
Released 2021-Jul-23
- Removes .NET Framework 4.5.2, .NET 4.6 support. The minimum .NET Framework version supported is .NET 4.6.1. (#2138)
- Add Metrics support.(#2174)
Released 2021-Jul-12
- Supports OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Hosting based configuration for
of
ConsoleExporterOptions.
Released 2021-Jun-25
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Released 2021-Mar-19
- Removed code that prints Baggage information (#1825)
- LogRecordExporter exports Message, Scope, StateValues from LogRecord. (#1871 #1895)
- Added Resource support. (#1913)
Released 2021-Feb-10
Released 2021-Feb-09
Released 2021-Feb-04
- Moved
ConsoleActivityExporterandConsoleLogRecordExporterclasses toOpenTelemetry.Exporternamespace. (#1770)
Released 2021-Jan-29
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AddConsoleExporterextension method for logs moved fromOpenTelemetry.Tracenamespace toOpenTelemetry.Logsnamespace. (#1576) -
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ConsoleActivityExporterandConsoleLogExporter. RefactoredConsoleExporterto get rid of type specific check in the class (#1593) -
Replaced Debug.WriteLine with Trace.WriteLine to display the logs to the Debug window with Release configuration (#1719)
Released 2020-Nov-17
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Add extension method to add
ConsoleExporterfor logs (#1452) -
Generalized
ConsoleExporterto add support for logs (#1438)
Released 2020-Oct-16
Released 2020-Sep-15
Released 2020-08-28
- Changed
UseConsoleExportertoAddConsoleExporter, improved readability (#1051)
Released 2020-07-24
Released 2020-07-23
- Initial release