# OpenTelemetry Zipkin Exporter Starter

The OpenTelemetry Exporter Starter for Java is a starter package that includes packages required to enable tracing using OpenTelemetry. It also provides the dependency and corresponding auto-configuration. Check out [opentelemetry-spring-boot-autoconfigure](../../spring-boot-autoconfigure/README.md#features) for the list of supported libraries and features.

OpenTelemetry Zipkin Exporter Starter is a starter package that includes the opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-sdk, opentelemetry-extension-annotations, opentelemetry-logging-exporter, opentelemetry-spring-boot-autoconfigurations and spring framework starters required to setup distributed tracing. It also provides the [opentelemetry-exporters-zipkin](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/tree/main/exporters/zipkin) artifact and corresponding exporter auto-configuration. Check out [opentelemetry-spring-boot-autoconfigure](../../spring-boot-autoconfigure/README.md#features) for the list of supported libraries and features.

Documentation for the OpenTelemetry Zipkin Exporter Starter can be found [here](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/java/automatic/spring-boot/#automatic-instrumentation#zipkin-starter).
