Observability Planning

[philwebb]

Priority Ordered List

3.2.x

• Enable providing custom OtlpHttpSpanExporter #35596
• Provide more control over the OTel SpanProcessors #35560
• Change B3 extraction format to single #36061
• Automatically log correlation IDs when Micrometer tracing is being used #33280
• Include the application name on each log line when it is available #35593
• Create configuration property for common low cardinality KeyValues in Observations  #33241
• Add a property to disable Observations starting with a prefix #34802
• @AutoConfigureObservability has unintentional consequences on integration tests #35354
• Auto-configure ObservationRegistry in ScheduledTaskRegistrar for scheduled tasks observations #36119
• Provide a configuration property to specify the order of the ServerHttpObservationFilter #35067
• Add R2DBC observation auto-configuration #33768
• Custom ObservationHandler beans need to be registered after infrastructure handlers #34399
• Add auto-configuration for ObservedAspect #35191
• Add property for base time unit in OTLP registry #36393
• Register user-provided SdkLoggerProvider and SdkMeterProvider on the OpenTelemetry bean #36545
• Provide OpenTelemetry Resource as a bean #36544
• Add auto-configuration for CountedAspect and TimedAspect #37626
• Add auto-configuration for SpanAspect #37640

3.x

• Add a property to disable HTTP Observations for actuator endpoints #34801
• Honor timeouts in Zipkin WebClient sender #31496
• Add local baggage and tagged baggage #33991
• Optimize OpenTelemetry Metric and Tracing autoconfiguration #34023
• Provide a setting for automatic context propagation with reactor-core #34201

Bugs (3.0.x)

• Tracing only supports a single context propagation type #35611
• Document observability auto-configuration for HTTP clients #34053
• Improve documentation for baggage propagation into MDC #34977
• OTel Span is missing required attributes #36155

Later

• Enhanced Observability #25476
• Auto-configure OpenTSDBMeterRegistry #21063

Blocked

• Automated registration of ObservationAwareSpanThreadLocalAccessor via the ContextPropagation API #34736
• Adding custom ObservationHandler does not preserve the default ObservationHandlers #34510

[philwebb]

Since we've delivered most of this in 3.2.x, I'm going to close this planning issue. We'll deal with the remaining issues as we can.