diff --git a/.github/scripts/markdown-link-check-config.json b/.github/scripts/markdown-link-check-config.json
deleted file mode 100644
index e132f40b6183..000000000000
--- a/.github/scripts/markdown-link-check-config.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "retryOn429": true,
-  "aliveStatusCodes": [
-    200,
-    403
-  ],
-  "ignorePatterns": [
-    {
-      "pattern": "^https://developer\\.mend\\.io/github/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation$"
-    },
-    {
-      "pattern": "^https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pulls/app%2Frenovate"
-    },
-    {
-      "pattern": "^https://kotlinlang\\.org/docs/coroutines-overview\\.html$"
-    },
-    {
-      "pattern": "^http(s)?://logback\\.qos\\.ch"
-    },
-    {
-      "pattern": "^https://micrometer\\.io"
-    },
-    {
-      "pattern": "^https://central\\.sonatype\\.com"
-    }
-  ]
-}
diff --git a/.github/scripts/markdown-link-check-with-retry.sh b/.github/scripts/markdown-link-check-with-retry.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 109146abfec8..000000000000
--- a/.github/scripts/markdown-link-check-with-retry.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash -e
-
-# this script helps to reduce sporadic link check failures by retrying at a file-by-file level
-
-retry_count=3
-
-for file in "$@"; do
-  for i in $(seq 1 $retry_count); do
-    if markdown-link-check --config "$(dirname "$0")/markdown-link-check-config.json" \
-                           "$file"; then
-      break
-    elif [[ $i -eq $retry_count ]]; then
-      exit 1
-    fi
-    sleep 5
-  done
-done
diff --git a/.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml b/.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml
index edc997bf55e6..353075eb7693 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml
@@ -12,15 +12,14 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
 
-      - name: Install markdown-link-check
-        # https://github.com/tcort/markdown-link-check/issues/297
-        run: npm install -g markdown-link-check@3.11.2
-
-      - name: Run markdown-link-check
-        run: |
-          find . -type f \
-                 -name '*.md' \
-                 -not -path './CHANGELOG.md' \
-                 -not -path './licenses/*' \
-                 -not -path '*/build/*' \
-               | xargs .github/scripts/markdown-link-check-with-retry.sh
+      - uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2
+        with:
+          # remove version after next release of lychee-action
+          lycheeVersion: latest
+          # excluding links to pull requests and issues is done for performance
+          args: >
+            --include-fragments
+            --exclude "^https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/(issue|pull)/\\d+$"
+            --exclude "^http://code.google.com/p/concurrentlinkedhashmap$"
+            --max-retries 6
+            .
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8ab04afa2249..ab5d037aeb92 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ too disruptive to adopt right away.
   or `-Dotel.instrumentation.common.experimental.view-telemetry.enabled=true`.
 - ⚠️⚠️ Stable HTTP semantic conventions are now emitted ⚠️⚠️
   - TOO MANY CHANGES TO LIST HERE, be sure to review the full
-    [list of changes](https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/blob/main/docs/http/migration-guide.md#summary-of-changes).
+    [list of changes](https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/blob/main/docs/non-normative/http-migration.md#summary-of-changes).
 - Stable JVM semantic conventions are now emitted.
   - Memory metrics
     - `process.runtime.jvm.memory.usage` renamed to `jvm.memory.used`
diff --git a/instrumentation/micrometer/micrometer-1.5/library/README.md b/instrumentation/micrometer/micrometer-1.5/library/README.md
index 938c0047345c..e12bee1aebcb 100644
--- a/instrumentation/micrometer/micrometer-1.5/library/README.md
+++ b/instrumentation/micrometer/micrometer-1.5/library/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Micrometer Instrumentation for Micrometer version 1.5 and higher
 
-This module provides a [Micrometer registry](https://micrometer.io/docs/concepts#_registry) which
+This module provides a [Micrometer registry](https://docs.micrometer.io/micrometer/reference/concepts/registry.html) which
 sends Micrometer metrics to the
 [OpenTelemetry Metrics SDK](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/tree/main/sdk/metrics).
 
diff --git a/instrumentation/spring/starters/zipkin-spring-boot-starter/README.md b/instrumentation/spring/starters/zipkin-spring-boot-starter/README.md
index 3302d231331a..44c1ad838ff9 100644
--- a/instrumentation/spring/starters/zipkin-spring-boot-starter/README.md
+++ b/instrumentation/spring/starters/zipkin-spring-boot-starter/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # OpenTelemetry Zipkin Exporter Starter
 
-The OpenTelemetry Exporter Starter for Java is a starter package that includes packages required to enable tracing using OpenTelemetry. It also provides the dependency and corresponding auto-configuration. Check out [opentelemetry-spring-boot-autoconfigure](../../spring-boot-autoconfigure/README.md#features) for the list of supported libraries and features.
+The OpenTelemetry Exporter Starter for Java is a starter package that includes packages required to enable tracing using OpenTelemetry. It also provides the dependency and corresponding auto-configuration.
 
-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 auto-configuration. Check out [opentelemetry-spring-boot-autoconfigure](../../spring-boot-autoconfigure/README.md#features) for the list of supported libraries and features.
+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 auto-configuration.
 
 Documentation for the OpenTelemetry Zipkin Exporter Starter can be found [here](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/zero-code/java/spring-boot/#zipkin-starter).