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This page lists the default OpenTelemetry configuration properties for FlowX.AI services: resource attributes, Java agent settings, and exporter configuration for traces, metrics, and logs. Use it as a reference for which keys you can override when tuning observability. In Kubernetes deployments the operator sets most of these as environment variables, so the defaults below matter mainly for local development.
  • otel.resource.attributes=service.name=flowx-process-engine,service.version=1.1.1: Environment variable.
Will be overridden as environment variable by Kubernetes operator. Useful for local development.

Java agent configuration

  • otel.javaagent.enabled=true
  • otel.javaagent.logging=simple
  • otel.javaagent.debug=false

Disable OTEL SDK

  • otel.sdk.disabled=false

Exporters configuration (common config for all exporters)

  • otel.traces.exporter=otlp
  • otel.metrics.exporter=otlp
  • otel.logs.exporter=otlp

OTLP exporter

  • otel.exporter.otlp.endpoint=http://localhost:4317
Endpoint will be overridden by Kubernetes operator. Useful for local development.
  • otel.exporter.otlp.protocol=grpc
  • otel.exporter.otlp.timeout=10000
  • otel.exporter.otlp.compression=gzip
  • otel.exporter.otlp.metrics.temporality.preference=cumulative
  • otel.exporter.otlp.metrics.default.histogram.aggregation=explicit_bucket_histogram

Tracer provider

SdkTracerProvider specific configuration options.
  • Sampler: see the OpenTelemetry sampler documentation
  • The default sampler is: parentbased_always_on
  • To disable FlowX technical spans, add sampler: fxTechnicalSpanFilterSampler
  • otel.traces.sampler=parentbased_always_on

Batch span processor

  • otel.bsp.schedule.delay=5000
  • otel.bsp.max.queue.size=2048
  • otel.bsp.max.export.batch.size=512
  • otel.bsp.export.timeout=30000

Meter provider

The following configuration options are specific to SdkMeterProvider.
  • otel.metric.export.interval=60000
  • otel.metric.export.timeout=10000

Logger provider

The following configuration options are specific to SdkLoggerProvider.
  • otel.blrp.schedule.delay=1000
  • otel.blrp.max.queue.size=2048
  • otel.blrp.max.export.batch.size=512
  • otel.blrp.export.timeout=30000

Agent auto-instrumentation

  • otel.instrumentation.messaging.experimental.receive-telemetry.enabled=false
  • otel.instrumentation.common.experimental.controller-telemetry.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.common.experimental.view-telemetry.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.common.default-enabled=false
Disable all auto instrumentation and enable only what’s necessary. This has to be commented out entirely to work as default.

Disable annotated methods

  • otel.instrumentation.opentelemetry-instrumentation-annotations.exclude-methods=my.package.MyClass1[method1,method2];my.package.MyClass2[method3]

Instrumentation config per library

Some instrumentation relies on other instrumentation to function properly. When selectively enabling instrumentation, be sure to enable the transitive dependencies too.
  • otel.instrumentation.opentelemetry-api.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.opentelemetry-instrumentation-annotations.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.opentelemetry-extension-annotations.enabled=false
  • otel.instrumentation.methods.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.external-annotations.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.kafka.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.tomcat.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.elasticsearch-transport.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.elasticsearch-rest.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.grpc.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.hibernate.enabled=false
Hibernate and JDBC kind of duplicate the queries traces
  • otel.instrumentation.hikaricp.enabled=false
  • otel.instrumentation.java-http-client.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.http-url-connection.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.jdbc.enabled=false
  • otel.instrumentation.jdbc-datasource.enabled=false
  • otel.instrumentation.runtime-telemetry.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.servlet.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.executors.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.java-util-logging.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.log4j-appender.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.log4j-mdc.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.log4j-context-data.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.logback-appender.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.logback-mdc.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.mongo.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.rxjava.enabled=false
  • otel.instrumentation.reactor.enabled=false

Redis client imported by spring-redis-data

  • otel.instrumentation.lettuce.enabled=true

Spring instrumentation props

  • otel.instrumentation.spring-batch.enabled=false
  • otel.instrumentation.spring-core.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.spring-data.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.spring-jms.enabled=false
  • otel.instrumentation.spring-integration.enabled=false
  • otel.instrumentation.spring-kafka.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.spring-rabbit.enabled=false
  • otel.instrumentation.spring-rmi.enabled=false
  • otel.instrumentation.spring-scheduling.enabled=false
  • otel.instrumentation.spring-web.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.spring-webflux.enabled=false
  • otel.instrumentation.spring-webmvc.enabled=true
  • otel.instrumentation.spring-ws.enabled=false
Last modified on May 12, 2026