April 2026 monthly summary for open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib focused on Splunk Enterprise receiver improvements and stability. Delivered a feature-rich enhancement by introducing a customizable SPL search capability, enabling config-driven searches with metrics, fields, and time spans. Implemented end-to-end support including config parsing, search execution, metric emission, and robust time window handling, while preserving existing receiver behavior (non-breaking changes). This work connected to the tracking issue #47124 and was delivered with strong testing and documentation coverage.

Monthly summary for 2024-10 - amazon-contributing/opentelemetry-collector-contrib. Focused on stabilizing the Sum Connector during its alpha transition and improving user onboarding through updated documentation and configuration examples. This work enhances reliability and guides users toward newer behavior (log-to-metrics transformation) while clarifying trace telemetry usage.