In DRIVERS-719, we plan to support client-side tracing in line with the standards defined by OpenTelemetry. Separately, we have heard from users that there is a desire for Micrometer support. Some are coming from Spring environments, and likely to use Micrometer. Our goal is to support both Micrometer and OpenTelemetry for Java users, as both are in use today.

Micrometer Tracing is a facade over the OpenTelemetry tracer, and is meant to add little to no overhead to the tracing collection activity. There is a bridge to ship spans to OpenTelemetry – micrometer-tracing-bridge-otel – that we can possibly build off of for OpenTelemetry support down the line.