Correct dependency for @AutoConfigureMetrics and @AutoConfigureTracing (Spring Boot 4.0.1)
10:27 14 Jan 2026

I am upgrading my Spring Boot app to Spring Boot 4.0.1.

However, I can not figure out the correct dependency to add to my pom.xml for the following annotations in my @SpringBootTest annotated integration test base class:

  • @AutoConfigureMetrics
    
  • @AutoConfigureTracing
    

I already added the dependencies below, but without result yet: the compiler can't resolve these annotations.


  org.springframework.boot
  spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure
  compile


  org.springframework.boot
  spring-boot-test-autoconfigure
  test


  org.springframework.boot
  spring-boot-autoconfigure
  ${spring-boot.version}


  org.springframework.boot
  spring-boot-starter-classic

The latter dependency

spring-boot-starter-classic

should not be necessary, but was advised me in order to solve the issue, but it did not help.

Any ideas?

FYI, I took the imports from the Spring Boot 4.0.0 javadoc, so these should be the right ones, but still the annotation classes are not resolved:
* https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/4.0-SNAPSHOT/api/java/org/springframework/boot/micrometer/metrics/test/autoconfigure/AutoConfigureMetrics.html
* https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/api/java/org/springframework/boot/micrometer/tracing/test/autoconfigure/AutoConfigureTracing.html

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