---
title: "Java zero-code instrumentation"
source: OpenTelemetry Documentation
source_url: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io
licence: CC-BY-4.0
domain: engineering
subdomain: opentelemetry-docs
date_added: 2026-04-25
---

Common options for zero-code instrumentation with Java are the Java agent JAR,
Spring Boot Starter, and the Quarkus OpenTelemetry Extension. To learn how to
manually instrument your service or app code, see
[Manual instrumentation](/docs/languages/java/instrumentation/).
