Will Sleuth keep up to date?

[MrXionGe]

Will Sleuth only be updated to version 3.1?
Are we going to use "micrometer-tracing"?

[marcingrzejszczak]

Yes, that's exactly what we wrote in the attached screenshot :)

[joshdcu]

Could you please explain if the Micrometer Tracing project will provide the same auto-configuration "magic" (😅) as Spring Cloud Sleuth? Specifically, the Sleuth docs say:

Sleuth configures everything you need to get started. This includes where trace data (spans) are reported to, how many traces to keep (sampling), if remote fields (baggage) are sent, and which libraries are traced.

But from the Micrometer Tracing docs, it looks like we have to do the tracer configuration manually 😞

[MrXionGe]

Sleuth is so excellent that we don't want to use micrometer at all.

[jonatan-ivanov]

@sereneshikari Micrometer Tracing does not depend on Spring so it will not give you auto-configuration, the auto-configuration will be provided by Spring Boot.

@MrXionGe Micrometer Tracing is Sleuth copied over and its package name changed.

[MrXionGe]

@jonatan-ivanov
Will Sleuth not keep updated?
Or is there a 'starter' similar to Sleuth?

[joshdcu]

@sereneshikari Micrometer Tracing does not depend on Spring so it will not give you auto-configuration, the auto-configuration will be provided by Spring Boot.

Thanks for the clarification @jonatan-ivanov! Would you happen to know if the auto-configuration by Spring Boot is a work in progress or ready for use?

Will Sleuth not keep updated? Or is there a 'starter' similar to Sleuth?

@MrXionGe, you need to move to Micrometer Tracing. Please read the documentation available here for how to do so

[marcingrzejszczak]

Please read this blog post https://spring.io/blog/2022/10/12/observability-with-spring-boot-3

[joshdcu]

Thanks a lot @marcingrzejszczak! I also saw this completed issue in the spring-boot repo: spring-projects/spring-boot#30156.