OpenTelemetry - java Instrumentation

This release targets the OpenTelemetry SDK 1.15.0.

Note that all artifacts other than io.opentelemetry.javaagent:opentelemetry-javaagent have the -alpha suffix attached to their version number, reflecting that they are still alpha quality and will continue to have breaking changes. Please see the VERSIONING.md for more details.

Migration notes

• The opentelemetry-jboss-logmanager-1.1 artifact has been renamed to opentelemetry-jboss-logmanager-appender-1.1
• The play instrumentation name has changed from play to play-mvc (#6106)
• The vertx-http-client instrumentation name has changed from vertx-client to vertx-http-client (#6106)
• The metric process.runtime.java.memory.max has been renamed to process.runtime.java.memory.limit (#6161)

🌟 New javaagent instrumentation

• JVM classes metrics (#6069)
• JVM threads metrics (#6070)
• Vibur DBCP connection pool metrics (#6092)
• tomcat-jdbc connection pool metrics (#6102)
• JVM cpu metrics (#6107)
• Oracle UCP connection pool metrics (#6099)
• Apache DBCP2 datasource metrics (#6175)
• Add instrumentation for JAX-RS 3.0 (#6136)

🌟 New library instrumentation

• JVM classes metrics (#6069)
• JVM threads metrics (#6070)
• Vibur DBCP connection pool metrics (#6092)
• tomcat-jdbc connection pool metrics (#6102)
• JVM cpu metrics (#6107)
• Oracle UCP connection pool metrics (#6099)
• Apache DBCP2 datasource metrics (#6175)

📈 Enhancements

• Enable grizzly instrumentation by default (#6049)
• Instrumentation for redisson 3.17.2+ (#6096)
• Instrumentation for jboss-logmanager getMdcCopy() (#6112)
• Allow specifying a comma separated list of extensions (#6137)

🛠️ Bug fixes

• Fix redisson ClassCastException (#6054)
• Fix debug logging (#6085)
• HttpURLConnection instrumentation can capture wrong http.method (#6053)
• fix bug: get return type in a wrong way for method instrumentation (#6118)
• Show correct runnable name in spring scheduling actuator (#6140)
• Fix ClassCastException in JDBC instrumentation (#6088)

🧰 Tooling

• Remove TimeExtractor and use internal API for setting start/end timestamps (#6051)
• Change SpanStatusExtractor to use a builder that can set status description (#6035)
• Make gRPC metadata available to AttributeExtractors (#6125)

Thank you

This release was possible thanks to the following contributors who shared their brilliant ideas and awesome pull requests:

@agoallikmaa @ahus1 @anuraaga @axelczk @breedx-splk @claussenj @cykl @darcydai @evantorrie @felipebonezi @HaloFour @hboutemy @jack-berg @jeanbisutti @laurit @mateuszrzeszutek @Roiocam @trask @tydhot @vasireddy99