Lifecycle guide for OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation from OpenTelemetry

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-02-09

What is OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

The OpenTelemetry Java automatic instrumentation with Java uses a Java agent JAR that can be attached to any Java 8+ application. It dynamically injects bytecode to capture telemetry from many popular libraries and frameworks. It can be used to capture telemetry data at the “edges” of an app or service, such as inbound requests, outbound HTTP calls, database calls, and so on. To learn how to manually instrument your service or app code

The entire lifecycle of OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.