Add blog spot for Spring native images (#3612)

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+---
+title: Observe your Spring Native Image application with OpenTelemetry
+linkTitle: Observe Spring Native
+date: 2023-12-08
+author: >-
+  [Jean Bisutti](https://github.com/jeanbisutti) (Microsoft)
+cSpell:ignore: bisutti datasource logback
+---
+
+The [OpenTelemetry Java agent](/docs/instrumentation/java/automatic) is a
+convenient and well-established way to instrument Java applications. However, as
+of today
+[it is not possible to use it with GraalVM Native Images](https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/1065).
+
+To provide you with an easy and seamless way for Spring Boot Native Image
+application nevertheless, the OpenTelemetry Java contributors have improved the
+existing OpenTelemetry Spring Boot Starter to work well with Spring Boot Native
+Image applications. Read on to learn more!
+
+## A history of the last months
+
+The OpenTelemetry Spring Boot Starter allows to add OpenTelemetry to your
+application without byte code instrumentation. The OpenTelemetry Java
+contributors have used this to instrument Spring Boot Native Images. By adding
+the starter dependency to your project, you will benefit from an OTLP exports of
+logs (added the last months), spans and metrics, with an auto-instrumentation
+for Spring HTTP frameworks (updated the last months to make it work with Spring
+Boot 3) out of the box:
+
+```xml
+<dependencies>
+  <dependency>
+    <groupId>io.opentelemetry.instrumentation</groupId>
+    <artifactId>opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
+    <version>1.32.0-alpha</version>
+  </dependency>
+</dependencies>
+```
+
+To get even more visibility, the Starter can be combined with
+[instrumentation libraries](/docs/instrumentation/java/libraries/). For this
+purpose, the OpenTelemetry Java contributors have improved the JDBC (database)
+libraries and logging instrumentation libraries. For example, for the Logback
+logging library, they have added GraalVM configuration to make the library work
+in native mode[^1].
+
+Furthermore, they have worked to reduce the configuration to set up the logging
+and database instrumentation with the Starter. For example, if your application
+does not declare a DataSource bean, you can enable the database by simply adding
+two properties in the `application.properties` file:
+
+```properties
+spring.datasource.url=jdbc:otel:h2:mem:db
+spring.datasource.driver-class-name=io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.jdbc.OpenTelemetryDriver
+```
+
+Read the [documentation](/docs/instrumentation/java/automatic/spring-boot/) of
+the OpenTelemetry Spring Boot Starter to learn more. You can use
+[opentelemetry-java-examples/spring-native](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-examples/tree/main/spring-native)
+to run a Spring Boot Native Image application and look at the generated logs as
+well as HTTP and database telemetry data.
+
+Finally, the OpenTelemetry Java contributors have added GraalVM Native automatic
+tests to the OpenTelemetry Java project to detect regressions related to the
+native mode execution.
+
+## What’s next?
+
+The OpenTelemetry Java contributors expect to be able to enable automatic
+logging and database instrumentation configuration.
+
+If you try out the OpenTelemetry Spring Boot Starter, share your thoughts and
+experiences via
+[GitHub discussions](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/discussions)
+or the [#otel-java](https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C014L2KCTE3)
+[CNCF Slack](https://slack.cncf.io) channel.
+
+[^1]:
+    Spring Boot Native Image applications
+    [do not support Log4j2 logging library](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/wiki/Spring-Boot-with-GraalVM).

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