When I add the basic/auth extention to opentelemetry it throwing an error decoding 'extensions': unknown type: "basicauth"

[nikhil-ht-el]

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Describe the issue you're reporting

here is my openetelemetry config file

receivers:
  otlp:
    protocols:
      http:
        endpoint: 0.0.0.0:5555

exporters:
  logging:
    loglevel: debug
  otlphttp:
    endpoint:https://tempo-dev.com
    auth:
      authenticator: basicauth/client
extensions:
  basicauth/client:
    client_auth: 
      username: ${username}
      password: ${password}
service:
  extensions: [basicauth/client]
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [otlp]
      exporters: [otlphttp]
    traces:
      receivers: [otlp]
      exporters: [otlphttp,logging]

I want to push basic auth header when pushing the traces and matrics to the tempo address so that is why I added the basicauth/client extension in opentelemetry but it throwing the below error.(using otel/opentelemetry-collector:0.87.0 version)

Error: failed to get config: cannot unmarshal the configuration: 1 error(s) decoding:

* error decoding 'extensions': unknown type: "basicauth" for id: "basicauth/client" (valid values: [zpages memory_ballast health_check pprof])
2024/01/02 10:34:19 collector server run finished with error: failed to get config: cannot unmarshal the configuration: 1 error(s) decoding:

* error decoding 'extensions': unknown type: "basicauth" for id: "basicauth/client" (valid values: [zpages memory_ballast health_check pprof])

[crobert-1]

Hello @nikhil-ht-el, this is because you're using what is referred to as the core distribution OpenTelemetry Collector, not the contrib distribution. Note your image name: otel/opentelemetry-collector:0.87.0. If you use the contrib image, the extension will be included.

This image should work instead: otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib:0.87.0

Note in the README the supported distributions.

[crobert-1]

Please feel free to let us know if you have any more questions, happy to help! If you run into more issues with this extension please file a new issue. 👍

[nikhil-ht-el]

Thanks @crobert-1