Micrometer Tracing provides a bridge/facade to instrument your Spring Boot JVM-based application code with OpenTelemetry or Brave Tracing, which gets collected and exported to Zipkin for trace view.
Distributed Tracing of Spring Boot App using Micrometer, Brave And Zipkin

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Distributed Tracing For Spring Boot 3x App Using Micrometer, Brave And Zipkin

Amith Kumar

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Please check preface of my another blog for initial insight on Micrometer Tracing and it’s succession of Spring Cloud Sleuth:

Spring Boot 3x App — Enable Distributed Tracing using Micrometer, OpenTelemetry And Jaeger

This blog will give you a full overview of the minimal configuration required to enable any Spring Boot app with Distributed Tracing capability using the following toolsets:

  • Micrometer — For code instrumentation & provide tracing bridge to OpenZipkin Brave.
  • Brave — Distributed tracing Instrumentation library supporting both W3C & B3 trace context and propagation formats.
  • ZipkinFor visualizing, monitoring & troubleshooting distributed systems micro-service traces.

First, we will understand the dependencies required for spring boot auto configuration to take place.

NOTE: For Gradle/Maven dependencies, since we are using all spring BOM managed dependencies, so <version> tag is not used, unless you want to override to specific version. Check all the latest of versions managed by Spring BOM.
https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/dependency-versions.html

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