External collector and logging support

Added

• Support logging through the external collector experimental feature. When the collector_endpoint configuration option is provided, the OpenTelemetry stack will be automatically configured to instrument logs.

  The logging module will be automatically instrumented, such that log lines emitted through loggers that propagate to the root logger will be automatically sent to AppSignal. To disable this behaviour, add "logging" to the disable_default_instrumentations configuration option list.

• Support usage with external collector. When the collector_endpoint configuration option is provided, instead of booting up the AppSignal agent bundled with the application, the OpenTelemetry stack will be configured to send data to the given collector.

  This is an experimental feature. The following functionality is not currently supported when using the collector:

  • NGINX metrics
  • StatsD metrics
  • Host metrics

  Some configuration options are only supported when using the agent or when using the collector. A warning will be emitted if a configuration option that is only supported by one is set while using the other.

View the Python package v1.6.0 changelog for more information.