Micrometer Tracing adds request tracing to Spring Boot applications while remaining Spring-agnostic. It connects application instrumentation to OpenTelemetry and sends trace data to a platform such as Jaeger, making request behavior visible across operations. section 9.4
Micrometer Tracing
Micrometer Tracing is a Spring-agnostic tracing library that provides instrumentation and tracing integrations for applications.
How Spring AI in Action covers it
- How deep it goes
- Configures dependencies, an exporter bean, an endpoint property, and Jaeger inspection without detailing tracing internals.
- Examples
- Uses a POST request to /ask and Qdrant query spans as concrete trace-inspection examples.
- What it assumes
- Assumes a Spring Boot application and deployment configuration capable of running Jaeger alongside application services.
- What you can do after
- Operate Jaeger to inspect application traces and diagnose the work performed during requests.
- How it connects
- Connects Micrometer Tracing to OpenTelemetry, OTLP, Jaeger, and Zipkin.
Related concepts
- OpenTelemetryuses · OpenTelemetry is an open, vendor-neutral observability standard and framework for instrumenting software and generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry such as traces, metrics, and logs.
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