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OpenTelemetry with Spring Boot 4: The New Starter You've Been Waiting For
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OpenTelemetry with Spring Boot 4: The New Starter You've Been Waiting For

· 12 min read

Learn how to use the new spring-boot-starter-opentelemetry in Spring Boot 4 to add observability with traces, metrics, and logs—no Actuator required.

Spring BootObservability