opentracing-contrib / opentracing-contrib/java-spring-cloud
Doc or instruction for Span generation in spring boot
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- Java
- Stars
- 399
- Forks
- 143
- Avg merge
- 1d 3h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 22
Description
Hi,
When I use opentracing with spring boot, I found opentracing generate spans for
- component : "java-web-servlet"
- component : "feign"
- class : "MbmsPromOper"
Like this

It seems one request can have 3 spans. Can I control how much spans will be generated? Is there some doc or instruction I can refer?
Many thanks.
Rgds,
Jingang Li
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing Spring Boot tracing documentation and the instrumentation responsible for servlet, Feign, and application spans named in the issue. Document whether span generation can be controlled and provide the relevant configuration or usage guidance; done means a newcomer can understand why the three spans appear and how to adjust them.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, spring, spring-boot
- Domain
- backend, documentation, observability-sre
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100