1.5.0

Changelog

Features

• feat: add metricsgenerationprocessor to nrdot-collector-k8s (#386)

1.4.0

Changelog

Features

• feat: Add spanprocessor to nrdot-collector (#371)
• feat: Bump otel component versions from v0.131.0 to v0.132.0 (#368)
• feat: add newrelic.service.type to internal telemetry config (#380)
• feat: enable host.name detection for ec2 (#382)

1.3.0

Changelog

This release introduces the nrdot-collector distribution. This distro is currently in alpha but will eventually serve as a replacement for the nrdort-collector-host distribution. Future distributions will use nrdot-collector as a base manifest and expand on it as needed.

Features

• feat: Bump otel component versions from v0.128.0 to v0.131.0 (#357)
• feat: Introducting nrdot core distribution (#359)

1.2.0

Changelog

This release marks the nrdot-collector-k8s distribution reaching Stability: public. Please refer to its README for further details.

Features

• feat: bump OTEL beta core to v0.128.0 (#321)

1.1.0

Changelog

Features

• feat: Add routing connector to host and k8s distro (#305)
• feat: Updating otel components to 0.125.0 (#303)
• feat: add memory_limiter to all host pipelines (#301)
• feat: sync config with nr-k8s-otel-collector 0.8.10 (#300)

1.0.3

Changelog

Features

• feat: bumping upstream components to 0.123.0, includes fix to CVE-2025-30204 (#294)

Docs

• docs: add missing documentation (#292)

1.0.2

Changelog

Features

• feat: update otel components to 0.122.1 and enables enableCPUUsageMetrics gate in k8s distro (#283)

Bug Fixes

• fix: force expr-lang 1.17.0 to fix CVE-2025-29786 (#284)

Docs

• docs: add governance section (#277)

1.0.1

Changelog

Features

• feat: remove debugexporter from default host config (#271)

Bug Fixes

• fix: add missing default configs to archive artifacts (.tar.gz, .zip) (#274)

Docs

• docs: add installation docs (#275)
• docs: add troubleshooting guide (#272)

1.0.0

Release Summary

We're releasing version 1.0.0 to represent the nrdot-collector-host distribution now being generally available. It should be noted that the nrdot-collector-k8s distribution is still in preview and should be used with caution for the time being.

docker pull newrelic/nrdot-collector-host:1.0.0
docker pull newrelic/nrdot-collector-k8s:1.0.0

Changelog

Features

• feat: Update otel components to 0.121.0 (#265)
• feat: syncing latest version of the k8s helm configs (#269)

Docs

• docs: flagging k8s distro as preview (#268)

0.8.11

Release Summary

This release marks the first time we are including both the nrdot-collector-host and nrdot-collector-k8s distributions of the OpenTelemetry (otel) collector. At the same time we are also sunsetting the nr-otel-collector distribution which had its last release with 0.8.10. The nrdot-collector-k8s distribution will replace nr-otel-collector in the nr-k8s-otel-collector helm-chart.

Packages are distributed as github release assets and docker images are available via:

docker pull newrelic/nrdot-collector-host:0.8.11
docker pull newrelic/nrdot-collector-k8s:0.8.11

More information about each distribution and their respective components can be found here:

• nrdot-collector-host

• nrdot-collector-k8s

Changelog

Breaking Changes

• discontinue nr-otel-collector distro in favor of nrdot-collector-host and nrdot-collector-k8s

Features

• feat: add nrdot-collector-host distro
• feat: add nrdot-collector-k8s distro
• feat: provide env var defaults for docker images (#223)

Docs

• docs: document difference between helm and distro (#219)