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Alex BotenandGitHub aafce1281f [pkg/service] stabilize telemetry.UseLocalHostAsDefaultMetricsAddress (#15342)
This has been in beta for 18 months, time to stabilize.

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Signed-off-by: Alex Boten <[email protected]>
2026-05-21 18:23:52 +00:00

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Internal Telemetry

The following telemetry is emitted by this component.

otelcol.connector.consumed.items

Number of items passed to the connector.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Monotonic Stability
{item} Sum Int true Development

otelcol.connector.produced.items

Number of items emitted from the connector.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Monotonic Stability
{item} Sum Int true Development

otelcol.exporter.consumed.items

Number of items passed to the exporter.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Monotonic Stability
{item} Sum Int true Development

otelcol_process_cpu_seconds

Total CPU user and system time in seconds

Unit Metric Type Value Type Monotonic Stability
s Sum Double true Alpha

otelcol_process_memory_rss

Total physical memory (resident set size)

Unit Metric Type Value Type Stability
By Gauge Int Alpha

otelcol_process_runtime_heap_alloc_bytes

Bytes of allocated heap objects (see 'go doc runtime.MemStats.HeapAlloc')

Unit Metric Type Value Type Stability
By Gauge Int Alpha

otelcol_process_runtime_total_alloc_bytes

Cumulative bytes allocated for heap objects (see 'go doc runtime.MemStats.TotalAlloc')

Unit Metric Type Value Type Monotonic Stability
By Sum Int true Alpha

otelcol_process_runtime_total_sys_memory_bytes

Total bytes of memory obtained from the OS (see 'go doc runtime.MemStats.Sys')

Unit Metric Type Value Type Stability
By Gauge Int Alpha

otelcol_process_uptime

Uptime of the process

Unit Metric Type Value Type Monotonic Stability
s Sum Double true Alpha

otelcol.processor.consumed.items

Number of items passed to the processor.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Monotonic Stability
{item} Sum Int true Development

otelcol.processor.produced.items

Number of items emitted from the processor.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Monotonic Stability
{item} Sum Int true Development

otelcol.receiver.produced.items

Number of items emitted from the receiver.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Monotonic Stability
{item} Sum Int true Development

Feature Gates

This component has the following feature gates:

Feature Gate Stage Description From Version To Version Reference
service.AllowNoPipelines alpha Allow starting the Collector without starting any pipelines. v0.122.0 N/A Link
service.profilesSupport alpha Controls whether profiles support can be enabled v0.112.0 N/A Link
telemetry.UseLocalHostAsDefaultMetricsAddress beta Controls whether default Prometheus metrics server use localhost as the default host for their endpoints v0.111.0 N/A Link

For more information about feature gates, see the Feature Gates documentation.