Provide advance warning of the deprecation and forthcoming removal of

OpenTelemetry's ZipkinSpanExporter

Closes gh-49453
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Moritz Halbritter
2026-03-11 08:36:37 +01:00
parent 73b4fda218
commit 0e9840e7de
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ TIP: To learn more about Micrometer Tracing capabilities, see its {url-micromete
Spring Boot ships auto-configuration for the following tracers:
* https://opentelemetry.io/[OpenTelemetry] with https://zipkin.io/[Zipkin] or https://opentelemetry.io/docs/reference/specification/protocol/[OTLP].
* https://opentelemetry.io/[OpenTelemetry] with https://opentelemetry.io/docs/reference/specification/protocol/[OTLP].
* https://github.com/openzipkin/brave[OpenZipkin Brave] with https://zipkin.io/[Zipkin].
@@ -128,6 +128,10 @@ The customizers take precedence over anything applied by the auto-configuration.
[[actuator.micrometer-tracing.tracer-implementations.otel-zipkin]]
=== OpenTelemetry With Zipkin
WARNING: OpenTelemetry has https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/trace/sdk_exporters/zipkin/[deprecated their Zipkin support].
The auto-configuration for it will be removed in Spring Boot 4.2.
Either switch to Brave or consider using https://github.com/openzipkin-contrib/zipkin-otel[the Zipkin OTel module] for ingesting OTLP directly.
Tracing with OpenTelemetry and reporting to Zipkin requires the following dependencies:
* `org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-micrometer-tracing-opentelemetry` - Spring Boot's support for Micrometer Tracing over OpenTelemetry.