Spring Boot Tutorial 0/110 lessons ~6 min read Lesson 72“Production-grade backends”

Distributed Tracing

When a request hops 5 services, logs alone won't tell you where the latency went.

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Introduction

When a request hops 5 services, logs alone won't tell you where the latency went. Distributed tracing stitches spans together via a trace ID. Spring Boot 3 ships Micrometer Tracing with OpenTelemetry support.

Informative example

bash

# pom.xml
<dependency>
  <groupId>io.micrometer</groupId>
  <artifactId>micrometer-tracing-bridge-otel</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>io.opentelemetry</groupId>
  <artifactId>opentelemetry-exporter-otlp</artifactId>
</dependency>

# application.yml
management:
  tracing:
    sampling:
      probability: 1.0          # 1.0 in dev, 0.05 in prod
otel:
  exporter:
    otlp:
      endpoint: http://tempo:4318

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