It would be helpful if OpenTelemetry Support section of reference manual would mention OpenTelemetry's own Spring Boot starter (see https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/pull/40339) as another way of configuring OpenTelemetry in Spring Boot applications as it has several advantages: - provides instrumentation support for large number of popular libraries - makes it easier to use the latest version of OpenTelemetry - doesn't require Actuator
Comment From: wilkinsona
Thanks for the suggestion. This isn't the sort of thing that we typically include in the reference documentation, preferring to focus on what Boot itself offers. The list of third-party starters is the right place for this.