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Java agent compatibility and requirements 🔗

Meet the following requirements to instrument Java applications for Splunk Observability Cloud:

Supported libraries and frameworks 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Java instruments numerous libraries, frameworks, and application servers. For a complete list of supported libraries and frameworks, see Supported libraries in the OpenTelemetry documentation.

For custom metrics support, you must use MicroMeter 1.5 and higher. See Send custom Java application metrics.

Note

To deactivate specific instrumentations, see Library instrumentation issues.

Make sure you are using compatible Java and JVM versions 🔗

The agent of the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Java is compatible with the following Java versions:

  • Java 8 starting from 8u40 (8u262 for AlwaysOn Profiling)

  • Java 11 and higher LTS versions

The following Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) are compatible:

  • AdoptOpenJDK

  • Amazon Corretto

  • Azul Zulu

  • BellSoft Liberica JDK

  • Eclipse Adoptium/Temurin

  • IBM J9

  • Microsoft OpenJDK

  • OpenJDK

  • SAP SapMachine

Note

AlwaysOn Profiling is not supported on Oracle JDK 8 and IBM J9.

Install and configure the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Java exports application and JVM metrics and spans to the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector, which also collects system metric data and logs, including profiling data.

To send application traces and spans to Splunk Observability Cloud, install the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for your platform. The following distributions are available: