This documentation has an index for AI agents at /llms.txt. A Markdown version of this page is available at https://explorer.opentelemetry.io/java-agent/instrumentation/spring-boot-resources.md.

Spring Boot Resource Detector

OpenTelemetry Java agent instrumentation

This instrumentation automatically detects the service.name and service.version for Spring Boot applications and sets them as resource attributes. It uses the following strategies (first successful wins):

  • Check for the SPRING_APPLICATION_NAME environment variable
  • Check for spring.application.name system property
  • Check for application.properties file on the classpath
  • Check for application.properties in the current working dir
  • Check for application.yml on the classpath
  • Check for application.yml in the current working dir
  • Check for --spring.application.name program argument (not jvm arg) via ProcessHandle
  • Check for --spring.application.name program argument via sun.java.command system property
  • Name: spring-boot-resources
  • Scope: io.opentelemetry.spring-boot-resources
  • Library: https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot

Data

  • JSON: /data/javaagent/instrumentations/spring-boot-resources/spring-boot-resources-f383343f0836.json
  • Explore: /java-agent/instrumentation/spring-boot-resources