After upgrade to Spring Boot 2.7.0 MVC metrics stop working. What I've found is that webMvcMetricsFilter is not created. There is new @ConditionalOnMissingBean annotation added In WebMvcMetricsAutoConfiguration:

@Bean
@ConditionalOnMissingBean
public FilterRegistrationBean<WebMvcMetricsFilter> webMvcMetricsFilter(MeterRegistry registry,
            WebMvcTagsProvider tagsProvider) {

Unfortunately, when using property server.forward-headers-strategy=framework other bean forwardedHeaderFilter is created and webMvcMetricsFilter is not called.

However ForwardedHeaderFilterConfiguration uses more precise @ConditionalOnMissingFilterBean(ForwardedHeaderFilter.class) annotation:

@Configuration(proxyBeanMethods = false)
    @ConditionalOnProperty(value = "server.forward-headers-strategy", havingValue = "framework")
    @ConditionalOnMissingFilterBean(ForwardedHeaderFilter.class)
    static class ForwardedHeaderFilterConfiguration {

So, as temporary solution, I've created webMvcMetricsFilter manually in my project. But looks like webMvcMetricsFilter should be annotated with something like this: @ConditionalOnMissingFilterBean(WebMvcMetricsFilter.class) instead of simple @ConditionalOnMissingBean

Comment From: wilkinsona

Duplicates https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/31150.