OpenTelemetry with Spring Boot: Modern Distributed Tracing

In modern microservices architectures, tracking requests as they flow across service boundaries is critical for debugging performance bottlenecks, diagnosing failures, and maintaining system reliability. While Zipkin and Jaeger have been popular distributed tracing tools, OpenTelemetry has emerged as the new standard, offering vendor-neutral instrumentation, logs, metrics, and traces in a unified framework. This article explores: Why OpenTelemetry (OTel) is replacing traditional tracing tools …

Apr 11, 2025 - 17:37

In modern microservices architectures, tracking requests as they flow across service boundaries is critical for debugging performance bottlenecks, diagnosing failures, and maintaining system reliability. While Zipkin and Jaeger have been popular distributed tracing tools, OpenTelemetry has emerged as the new standard, offering vendor-neutral instrumentation, logs, metrics, and traces in a unified framework. This article explores: Why OpenTelemetry (OTel) is replacing traditional tracing tools …