<dependency> <groupId>io.opentelemetry</groupId> <artifactId>opentelemetry-api</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>io.opentelemetry</groupId> <artifactId>opentelemetry-sdk</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> </dependency> import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.Span; import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.Tracer; import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.SpanContext; Tracer tracer = OpenTelemetry.getGlobalTracerProvider().get("your-instrumentation-name"); Span span = tracer.spanBuilder("your-span-name").startSpan(); span.log("error occurred"); span.log(Collections.singletonMap("error_code", "500")); import io.opentelemetry.context.Context; import io.opentelemetry.context.propagation.ContextPropagators; import io.opentelemetry.context.propagation.TextMapPropagator; TextMapPropagator propagator = ContextPropagators.createDefault().getTextMapPropagator(); Context currentContext = Context.current().with(Span.wrap(span)); TextMapCarrier carrier = new TextMapCarrier(request.getHeaders()); propagator.inject(currentContext, carrier); import io.opentelemetry.context.propagation.ContextPropagators; import io.opentelemetry.context.propagation.TextMapPropagator; TextMapPropagator propagator = ContextPropagators.createDefault().getTextMapPropagator(); Context extractedContext = propagator.extract(Context.current(), new TextMapCarrier(request.getHeaders())); Span receivedSpan = tracer.spanBuilder("received-span").setParent(Context.current().get(Span.class)).startSpan(); yaml exporter: jaeger: endpoint: http://jaeger-collector:14250 service-name: my-service