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Spring Boot Starter: use a term more aligned with OTel terminology rather than "Out of the box instrumentation" #6201

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chalin opened this issue Feb 4, 2025 · 1 comment

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chalin commented Feb 4, 2025

Regarding https://opentelemetry.io/docs/zero-code/java/spring-boot-starter/out-of-the-box-instrumentation/, I think that we should avoid the term "out of the box". If we mean autoinstrumentation and/or related concepts, then we should find a better title and file name.

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Not sure I'm the best person to weigh in on this question since I'm far from an expert on Java, but some possibilities would be:

  • built-in instrumentation
  • automatic instrumentation (although, we've been moving away from this term, I think)
  • pre-configured instrumentation
  • autoconfigurations (which is used elsewhere in the zero-code Java section)

A search of the .io site shows we use the phrase "out of the box" on other pages too. In fact, the Java overview page describes the SDK as a "reference implementation provided out of the box."

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