| ID | | | Enabled | | | Description | | | Stage | | | From Version | | | To Version | | | Reference URL | |
| confmap.enableMergeAppendOption | | | false | | | Combines lists when resolving configs from different sources. This feature gate will not be stabilized 'as is'; the current behavior will remain the default. | | | Alpha | | | v0.120.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/8754 | | |
| exporter.file.nativeCompression | | | false | | | Use native file-level compression (zstd) instead of message-level compression. Creates standard .zst files compatible with standard decompression tools | | | Alpha | | | v0.154.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/44077 | | |
| exporter.kafka.useRequestType | | | false | | | When enabled, the Kafka exporter converts pdata into Kafka records at request-creation time and uses a custom exporterhelper.Request for queue/batch sizing. | | | Alpha | | | v0.157.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/48090 | | |
| exporter.prometheus.DisableResourceToTelemetryConversion | | | false | | | When enabled, the deprecated resource_to_telemetry_conversion section and legacy conversion fields are disabled, and resource_constant_labels must be used instead | | | Alpha | | | v0.160.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/48861 | | |
| exporter.prometheusexporter.DisableAddMetricSuffixes | | | true | | | When enabled, the deprecated add_metric_suffixes configuration option is ignored and translation_strategy is always used | | | Beta | | | v0.132.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/4533 | | |
| exporter.prometheusremotewrite.DisableResourceToTelemetryConversion | | | false | | | When enabled, the deprecated resource_to_telemetry_conversion section and legacy conversion fields are disabled, and resource_constant_labels must be used instead | | | Alpha | | | v0.160.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/48862 | | |
| exporter.prometheusremotewritexporter.EnableMultipleWorkers | | | false | | | When enabled and settings configured, the Prometheus remote exporter will spawn multiple workers/goroutines to handle incoming metrics batches concurrently. | | | Alpha | | | v0.118.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/36134 | | |
| exporter.prometheusremotewritexporter.RetryOn429 | | | false | | | When enabled, the Prometheus remote write exporter will retry 429 http status code. Requires exporter.prometheusremotewritexporter.metrics.RetryOn429 to be enabled. | | | Alpha | | | v0.101.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/31924 | | |
| exporter.prometheusremotewritexporter.enableSendingRW2 | | | false | | | When enabled, the Prometheus remote write exporter will support sending rw2. Extra configuration is still required besides enabling this feature gate. | | | Alpha | | | v0.125.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/35888 | | |
| exporter.prometheusremotewritexporter.removeTopLevelHTTPSettings | | | false | | | When enabled, it rejects top-level HTTP client settings (e.g. endpoint, tls, proxy_url); configure them under the http block instead. | | | Alpha | | | v0.158.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/46209 | | |
| extension.healthcheck.useComponentStatus | | | false | | | Switch to the shared healthcheck implementation powered by component status events | | | Alpha | | | v0.142.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/42256 | | |
| filter.filterlog.useOTTLBridge | | | false | | | When enabled, filterlog will convert filterlog configuration to OTTL and use filterottl evaluation | | | Alpha | | | v0.81.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/18642 | | |
| filter.filtermetric.useOTTLBridge | | | false | | | When enabled, filtermetric will convert filtermetric configuration to OTTL and use filterottl evaluation | | | Alpha | | | v0.81.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/18642 | | |
| filter.filterspan.useOTTLBridge | | | false | | | When enabled, filterspan will convert filterspan configuration to OTTL and use filterottl evaluation | | | Alpha | | | v0.79.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/18642 | | |
| hostmetrics.process.bootTimeCache | | | true | | | When enabled, all process scrapes will use the boot time value that is cached at the start of the process. | | | Beta | | | v0.98.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/28849 | | |
| ottl.PanicDuplicateName | | | true | | | When enabled, the CreateFactoryMap panics if the name is duplicated. | | | Beta | | | v0.141.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/44630 | | |
| ottl.contexts.enableOTelColContext | | | true | | | Enable the `otelcol` context for OTTL. This allows users using `otelcol.*` paths in their OTTL statements and conditions. | | | Beta | | | v0.147.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/46437 | | |
| ottl.functions.enableLambda | | | false | | | Allow OTTL functions to take lambda arguments. When disabled, lambda arguments are rejected. | | | Alpha | | | v0.155.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/48227 | | |
| ottl.set.allowNil | | | false | | | When enabled, the set function passes nil values directly to the target. | | | Alpha | | | v0.158.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/49741 | | |
| pdata.useProtoPooling | | | false | | | When enabled, enable using local memory pools for underlying data that the pdata messages are pushed to. | | | Alpha | | | v0.133.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/13631 | | |
| pkg.experimentalmetricmetadata.useEntityEventsSpecification | | | false | | | When enabled, emit entity events using the OpenTelemetry entity events specification log record format. | | | Alpha | | | v0.156.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/49667 | | |
| pkg.exporterhelper.queueBatchEnabled | | | false | | | Enables exporterhelper batching by default in NewDefaultQueueConfig, as described in the batching migration RFC. | | | Alpha | | | v0.158.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/15047 | | |
| pkg.translator.jaeger.DontEmitV0HttpConventions | | | false | | | When enabled, the Jaeger translator no longer emits the deprecated http.status_code attribute (semconv v1.25.0). Requires pkg.translator.jaeger.EmitV1HttpConventions to also be enabled. | | | Alpha | | | v0.158.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/45036 | | |
| pkg.translator.jaeger.EmitV1HttpConventions | | | false | | | When enabled, the Jaeger translator emits http.response.status_code (semconv v1.40.0) instead of the deprecated http.status_code (semconv v1.25.0). | | | Alpha | | | v0.158.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/45036 | | |
| pkg.translator.prometheus.PermissiveLabelSanitization | | | false | | | Controls whether to change labels starting with '_' to 'key_'. | | | Alpha | | | v0.55.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/8950 | | |
| pkg.translator.zipkin.DontEmitV0CloudResourceConventions | | | false | | | When enabled, the Zipkin translator no longer emits the deprecated faas.id attribute (semconv v1.18.0). Requires pkg.translator.zipkin.EmitV1CloudResourceConventions to also be enabled. | | | Alpha | | | v0.155.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/45080 | | |
| pkg.translator.zipkin.DontEmitV0HttpConventions | | | false | | | When enabled, the Zipkin translator no longer emits the deprecated http.status_code attribute (semconv v1.25.0). Requires pkg.translator.zipkin.EmitV1HttpConventions to also be enabled. | | | Alpha | | | v0.154.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/45089 | | |
| pkg.translator.zipkin.DontEmitV0NetworkConventions | | | true | | | When enabled, the Zipkin translator no longer emits the deprecated net.host.ip, net.peer.ip, and peer.service (semconv v1.12.0) attributes. Requires pkg.translator.zipkin.EmitV1NetworkConventions to also be enabled. | | | Beta | | | v0.147.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/45041 | | |
| pkg.translator.zipkin.DontEmitV0ScopeConventions | | | false | | | When enabled, the Zipkin translator no longer emits the deprecated otel.library.name and otel.library.version attributes (semconv v1.25.0). Requires pkg.translator.zipkin.EmitV1ScopeConventions to also be enabled. | | | Alpha | | | v0.154.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/45089 | | |
| pkg.translator.zipkin.EmitV1CloudResourceConventions | | | false | | | When enabled, the Zipkin translator emits cloud.resource_id (semconv v1.40.0) instead of the deprecated faas.id (semconv v1.18.0). | | | Alpha | | | v0.155.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/45080 | | |
| pkg.translator.zipkin.EmitV1HttpConventions | | | false | | | When enabled, the Zipkin translator emits http.response.status_code (semconv v1.40.0) instead of the deprecated http.status_code (semconv v1.25.0). | | | Alpha | | | v0.154.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/45089 | | |
| pkg.translator.zipkin.EmitV1NetworkConventions | | | true | | | When enabled, the Zipkin translator emits network.local.address and network.peer.address and service.peer.name (semconv v1.40.0) instead of the deprecated net.host.ip, net.peer.ip, and peer.service (semconv v1.12.0). | | | Beta | | | v0.147.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/45041 | | |
| pkg.translator.zipkin.EmitV1ScopeConventions | | | false | | | When enabled, the Zipkin translator emits otel.scope.name and otel.scope.version (semconv v1.40.0) instead of the deprecated otel.library.name and otel.library.version (semconv v1.25.0). | | | Alpha | | | v0.154.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/45089 | | |
| processor.filter.defaultErrorModeIgnore | | | true | | | Changes the default error_mode of the filter processor from propagate to ignore | | | Stable | | | v0.150.0 | | | v0.159.0 | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/47232 | | |
| receiver.hostmetrics.DontEmitV0SystemConventions | | | false | | | When enabled, all scrapers stop emitting legacy semantic convention metrics, superseding per-scraper gates. | | | Alpha | | | v0.160.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/issues/3041 | | |
| receiver.hostmetrics.EmitV1SystemConventions | | | false | | | When enabled, all scrapers emit metrics aligned with the latest semantic conventions, superseding per-scraper gates. | | | Alpha | | | v0.160.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/issues/3041 | | |
| receiver.hostmetricsreceiver.UseLinuxMemAvailable | | | true | | | When enabled, the used value for the system.memory.usage and system.memory.utilization metrics will be based on the Linux kernel's MemAvailable statistic instead of MemFree, Buffers, and Cached. | | | Beta | | | v0.137.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/42221 | | |
| receiver.prometheusreceiver.EnableCreatedTimestampZeroIngestion | | | false | | | Enables the Prometheus created-timestamps-zero-injection feature. Created timestamps are injected as 0-valued samples when appropriate. This is disabled by default due to worse CPU performance with higher metric volumes. | | | Alpha | | | v0.113.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/40355 | | |
| receiver.prometheusreceiver.IgnoreScopeInfoMetric | | | true | | | When enabled, the `otel_scope_info` metric is ignored for scope attribute extraction. | | | Beta | | | v0.148.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/41502 | | |
| receiverhelper.newReceiverMetrics | | | false | | | Controls whether receivers emit new metrics and span attributes to distinguish downstream errors from internal errors. This is a breaking change for the semantics of the otelcol_receiver_refused_metric_points, otelcol_receiver_refused_log_records and otelcol_receiver_refused_spans. | | | Alpha | | | v0.138.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/12802 | | |
| scraper.process.DontEmitV0SystemConventions | | | false | | | When enabled, semconv legacy attributes are disabled. | | | Alpha | | | v0.158.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/issues/3041 | | |
| scraper.process.EmitV1SystemConventions | | | false | | | When enabled, semconv stable attributes are enabled. | | | Alpha | | | v0.158.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/issues/3041 | | |
| service.AllowNoPipelines | | | false | | | Allow starting the Collector without starting any pipelines. | | | Alpha | | | v0.122.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/12613 | | |
| service.partialReload | | | false | | | Controls whether configuration changes trigger a partial reload that rebuilds only the affected components. | | | Alpha | | | v0.157.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/docs/rfcs/partial-reload.md | | |
| service.partialReloadReceivers | | | true | | | Controls whether receiver-only configuration changes restart only the receivers. | | | Beta | | | v0.157.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/docs/rfcs/partial-reload.md | | |
| service.profilesSupport | | | false | | | Controls whether profiles support can be enabled | | | Alpha | | | v0.112.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/11477 | | |
| telemetry.newPipelineTelemetry | | | false | | | Injects component-identifying scope attributes in internal Collector metrics | | | Alpha | | | v0.123.0 | | | v<nil> | | | https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/docs/rfcs/component-universal-telemetry.md | | |