# Other Spring autoconfiguration LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt) --- Instead of using the OpenTelemetry Spring starter, you can use the OpenTelemetry Zipkin starter. ## Zipkin starter 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 autoconfiguration. If an exporter is present in the classpath during runtime and a spring bean of the exporter is missing from the spring application context, an exporter bean is initialized and added to a simple span processor in the active tracer provider. For more details, see the [implementation (OpenTelemetryAutoConfiguration.java)](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/blob/main/instrumentation/spring/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/spring/autoconfigure/OpenTelemetryAutoConfiguration.java).

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>io.opentelemetry</groupId>
    <artifactId>opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin</artifactId>
    <version>1.60.1</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

dependencies {
  implementation("io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin:1.60.1")
}

### Configurations | Property | Default Value | ConditionalOnClass | | ------------------------------ | ------------- | -------------------- | | `otel.exporter.zipkin.enabled` | true | `ZipkinSpanExporter` |