diff --git a/instrumentation/spring/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/spring/autoconfigure/internal/instrumentation/jdbc/DataSourcePostProcessor.java b/instrumentation/spring/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/spring/autoconfigure/internal/instrumentation/jdbc/DataSourcePostProcessor.java
index ad11fa09c991..8de7619af5c9 100644
--- a/instrumentation/spring/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/spring/autoconfigure/internal/instrumentation/jdbc/DataSourcePostProcessor.java
+++ b/instrumentation/spring/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/spring/autoconfigure/internal/instrumentation/jdbc/DataSourcePostProcessor.java
@@ -74,7 +74,11 @@ public Object postProcessAfterInitialization(Object bean, String beanName) {
                   configPropertiesProvider
                       .getObject()
                       .getBoolean(
-                          "otel.instrumentation.jdbc.experimental.transaction.enabled", false));
+                          "otel.instrumentation.jdbc.experimental.transaction.enabled", false))
+              .setDataSourceInstrumenterEnabled(configPropertiesProvider
+                  .getObject()
+                  .getBoolean(
+                      "otel.instrumentation.jdbc.experimental.datasource.connections.enabled", true));
       Experimental.setEnableSqlCommenter(
           builder,
           configPropertiesProvider