---
title: Technologies supported by the EDOT Java Agent
description: Overview of technologies supported by the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) Java Agent, including JVM versions, application servers, frameworks, and LLM instrumentations.
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/opentelemetry/edot-sdks/java/supported-technologies
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
  - Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Java
  - Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry SDK
  - Elastic Observability
applies_to:
  - Serverless Observability projects: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
  - Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Java: Generally available
---

# Technologies supported by the EDOT Java Agent
The EDOT Java agent is a [distribution](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/distributions/) of [OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation) agent. It inherits all the [supported](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/opentelemetry/compatibility/nomenclature) technologies of the OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation.
<note>
  **Understanding auto-instrumentation scope**Auto-instrumentation automatically captures telemetry for the frameworks and libraries listed on this page. However, it cannot instrument:
  - Custom or proprietary frameworks and libraries
  - Closed-source components without instrumentation support
  - Application-specific business logic
  If your application uses technologies not covered by auto-instrumentation, you have two options:
  1. **Native OpenTelemetry support** — Some frameworks and libraries include built-in OpenTelemetry instrumentation provided by the vendor.
  2. **Manual instrumentation** — Use the [OpenTelemetry API](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/java/instrumentation/) to add custom spans, metrics, and logs for unsupported components.
  3. **Configuration-based instrumentation** — Use the [`otel.instrumentation.methods.include`](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/zero-code/java/agent/annotations/#creating-spans-around-methods-with-otelinstrumentationmethodsinclude) option to create spans around specific methods without modifying application code or dependencies.
</note>


## EDOT Collector and Elastic Stack versions

The EDOT Java agent sends data through the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP). While OTLP ingest works with later 8.16+ versions of the EDOT Collector, for full support use either [EDOT Collector](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/edot-collector) versions 9.x or [Elastic Cloud Serverless](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/serverless) for OTLP ingest.
Refer to [EDOT SDKs compatibility](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/opentelemetry/compatibility/sdks) for support details.
<note>
  Ingesting data from EDOT SDKs through EDOT Collector 9.x into Elastic Stack versions 8.18+ is supported.
</note>


## JVM versions

The EDOT Java agent supports Java Virtual Machine (OpenJDK, OpenJ9) versions 8+. This follows from the [OpenTelemetry supported JVMs](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/blob/main/docs/supported-libraries.md#jvms-and-operating-systems).

## JVM languages

The EDOT Java agent is compatible with all JVM languages supported by the JVM version 8 and higher.

## Application servers

The EDOT Java agent supports [all the application servers documented by the OpenTelemetry Java agent](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/blob/main/docs/supported-libraries.md#application-servers).

## Libraries and Frameworks instrumentations

The EDOT Java agent supports [all the libraries and frameworks documented by the OpenTelemetry Java agent](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/blob/main/docs/supported-libraries.md#libraries--frameworks).
Note that [some supported technologies are deactivated by default](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/blob/main/docs/supported-libraries.md#disabled-instrumentations) and need explicit configuration to be activated.
The EDOT Java agent also supports technologies listed here that are not available in the [OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation).
Refer to the [EDOT Java agent configuration](/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/opentelemetry/edot-sdks/java/configuration#configuration-options) for defaults that might differ from the OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation.