# Spring Cloud Sleuth Documentation

This section provides a brief overview of Spring Cloud Sleuth reference documentation. It serves as a map for the rest of the document.

## 1. About the Documentation

The Spring Cloud Sleuth reference guide is available as

- Multi-page HTML

- Single-page HTML

- PDF

Copies of this document may be made for your own use and for distribution to others, provided that you do not charge any fee for such copies and further provided that each copy contains this Copyright Notice, whether distributed in print or electronically.

## 2. Getting Help

If you have trouble with Spring Cloud Sleuth, we would like to help.

- Try the How-to documents. They provide solutions to the most common questions.

- Learn the Spring Cloud Sleuth basics. If you are starting out with Spring Cloud Sleuth, try one of the guides.

- Ask a question. We monitor stackoverflow.com for questions tagged with `spring-cloud-sleuth`.

- Report bugs with Spring Cloud Sleuth at github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-sleuth/issues.

- Chat with us at Spring Cloud Sleuth Gitter

| All of Spring Cloud Sleuth is open source, including the documentation. If you find problems with the docs or if you want to improve them, please get involved.

## 3. First Steps

If you are getting started with Spring Cloud Sleuth or 'Spring' in general, start with the following topics:

- From scratch: Overview

- Tutorial: Part 1 | Part 2

- Running your example: Part 1

## 4. Working with Spring Cloud Sleuth

Ready to actually start using Spring Cloud Sleuth? We have you covered:

- Span Lifecycle with Spring Cloud Sleuth’s API

- Naming Spans

- Managins Spans with Annotations

## 5. Learning about Spring Cloud Sleuth Features

Need more details about Spring Cloud Sleuth’s core features? The following content is for you:

- Core Features: Context Propagation | Sampling Baggage

- Tracer Features: OpenZipkin Brave

- Reporting Features: Zipkin | Logs

## 6. Integrations Topics

Finally, we have topics related to instrumentation integrations:

- Integrations: Apache Kafka | Asynchronous Communication | HTTP Client Integration | HTTP Server Integration | Messaging | OpenFeign | OpenTracing | Reactor | Redis | RPC | gRPC | Dubbo | Runnable and Callable | RxJava | Spring Cloud CircuitBreaker | Quartz