Tracer tracer = OpenTelemetry.getTracer("my-java-app"); Span span = tracer.spanBuilder("my-span").startSpan(); span.setAttribute("key", "value"); try (Scope scope = tracer.withSpan(span)) { // ... span.addEvent("task.completed"); } catch (Exception e) { span.recordException(e); } finally { span.end(); } private static SdkMeterProvider getMeterProvider() { MeterSdkProvider meterProvider = MeterSdkProvider.builder().build(); BatchSpanProcessor spanProcessor = BatchSpanProcessor.builder(exporter).build(); OpenTelemetrySdk openTelemetry = OpenTelemetrySdk.builder() .setTracerProvider(DefaultTracerProvider.builder() .addSpanProcessor(spanProcessor).build()) .setMeterProvider(meterProvider) .buildAndRegisterGlobal(); return meterProvider; }