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OpenTelemetry Java Tutorial:

Integrating OpenTelemetry in Your
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By Rayyan Qureshi In Web Development Posted June 6, 2025

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Metrics (latency, error rates, etc.)

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Two basic services: product-service and inventory-service

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Step 1: Add These Dependencies

Add these to both services: spring boot observability

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<!-- Spring Boot Actuator for health and metrics --> boot-observability)
<dependency>
<groupId>[Link]</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId> spring boot tracing
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<!-- Micrometer bridge to OpenTelemetry -->
<dependency>
<groupId>[Link]</groupId>
<artifactId>micrometer-tracing-bridge-otel</artifactId> telemetry data collection java
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<!-- Export traces to OTLP (which Jaeger understands) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>[Link]</groupId>
tracing spring boot microservices
<artifactId>opentelemetry-exporter-otlp</artifactId>
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</dependency>
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No need for manual setup – Spring does the heavy lifting.

Step 2: Add the below configuration

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Jaeger is the place where we’ll see our traces. Just run the below command:

docker run -d --name jaeger -p 16686:16686 -p 4318:4318 jaegertracing/all-in-one:latest

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Traces go to: [Link]

Step 4: Simple Microservices that communicate

You’ll need two microservices:

product-service (runs on port 9091)

inventory-service (runs on port 9092)

product-service

inventory-service

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Make sure they can communicate over HTTP. This setup reflects typical Java microservices
observability use cases. If you’re also working with asynchronous message brokers, check out
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Step 5: Fire a Request, Watch the Trace

Call your product service:

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Now open Jaeger at [Link] ([Link] and select product-

service . You’ll see the full request path from product → inventory , complete with timing
details, headers, and propagation context demonstrating OpenTelemetry integration across
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Conclusion
With just:

Three Maven dependencies

Minimal configuration in [Link]

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You now have end-to-end distributed tracing in Spring Boot 3+ microservices with
OpenTelemetry and Jaeger.

This gives you:

End-to-end visibility

Faster root cause analysis

Performance monitoring

You can download the above example source code from our GitHub
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Laravel, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, he is dedicated to building efficient
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