I can confirm that this is a pretty good way. Building out a basic distributed tracing solution with OTEL, jaeger and the relevant Spring Boot configuration and dependencies was quite a pleasant experience once you figure out the relevant-for-your-use-cases set of dependencies. It's one of those nice things that Just Works™, at least for Java 17 and 21 and Spring Boot 3.2 (iirc) or greater.
There appeared to be wide array of library and framework support across various stacks, but I can only attest personally to the quality of the above setup (Java, Boot, etc).
There appeared to be wide array of library and framework support across various stacks, but I can only attest personally to the quality of the above setup (Java, Boot, etc).