Spring Missing trace/span on certain exceptions in DispatcherServlet using ObservationAutoConfiguration

On certain errors we don't get traces/spans in log statements. This happens when using latest Spring Boot 3.3.4 with ObservationAutoConfiguration and the following dependencies (example repo here):

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.micrometer</groupId>
    <artifactId>micrometer-tracing-bridge-brave</artifactId>
</dependency>

And the following correlation pattern is configured in application.properties:

logging.pattern.correlation=[${spring.application.name:},%X{traceId:-},%X{spanId:-}] 

When starting up the application and running this (invalid) request

curl -X PUT http://localhost:8080/test -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"  --data "  %@ "

...we see the following log entry without trace/span:

2024-10-08T13:08:15.510+02:00 ERROR 7602 --- [nio-8080-exec-4] [demo3,,] o.a.c.c.C.[.[.[/].[dispatcherServlet]    : Servlet.service() for servlet [dispatcherServlet] in context with path [] threw exception

Note: logging the happy path works fine.

Comment From: bclozel

Thanks for the sample. This logging happens in Tomcat, in the org.apache.catalina.core package - this means this is logged outside of the tracing scope, after the observation Servlet filter.

If you're looking for a more comprehensive tracing solution that only applies to Tomcat, you can use a Tomcat Valve to instrument your application - see https://github.com/micrometer-metrics/micrometer/issues/3777 for more details on Micrometer support for this.