diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/autoconfigure/observation/web/client/ClientObservationConventionAdapter.java b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/autoconfigure/observation/web/client/ClientObservationConventionAdapter.java
index a36e4d11d229..6466202b8a0e 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/autoconfigure/observation/web/client/ClientObservationConventionAdapter.java
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/autoconfigure/observation/web/client/ClientObservationConventionAdapter.java
@@ -56,16 +56,16 @@ public boolean supportsContext(Observation.Context context) {
 	@Override
 	public KeyValues getLowCardinalityKeyValues(ClientRequestObservationContext context) {
 		mutateClientRequest(context);
-		Iterable<Tag> tags = this.tagsProvider.tags(context.getCarrier(), context.getResponse(), context.getError());
+		Iterable<Tag> tags = this.tagsProvider.tags(context.getRequest(), context.getResponse(), context.getError());
 		return KeyValues.of(tags, Tag::getKey, Tag::getValue);
 	}
 
 	private void mutateClientRequest(ClientRequestObservationContext context) {
 		// WebClientExchangeTagsProvider relies on a request attribute to get the URI
 		// template, we need to adapt to that.
-		ClientRequest clientRequest = ClientRequest.from(context.getCarrier())
+		ClientRequest clientRequest = ClientRequest.from(context.getRequest())
 				.attribute(URI_TEMPLATE_ATTRIBUTE, context.getUriTemplate()).build();
-		context.setCarrier(clientRequest);
+		context.setRequest(clientRequest);
 	}
 
 	@Override
diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/autoconfigure/observation/web/client/ClientObservationConventionAdapterTests.java b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/autoconfigure/observation/web/client/ClientObservationConventionAdapterTests.java
index 590eac537883..6740fd4154ae 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/autoconfigure/observation/web/client/ClientObservationConventionAdapterTests.java
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/autoconfigure/observation/web/client/ClientObservationConventionAdapterTests.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class ClientObservationConventionAdapterTests {
 	private ClientObservationConventionAdapter convention = new ClientObservationConventionAdapter(TEST_METRIC_NAME,
 			new DefaultWebClientExchangeTagsProvider());
 
-	private ClientRequest request = ClientRequest.create(HttpMethod.GET, URI.create("/resource/test")).build();
+	private ClientRequest.Builder requestBuilder = ClientRequest.create(HttpMethod.GET, URI.create("/resource/test"));
 
 	private ClientResponse response = ClientResponse.create(HttpStatus.OK).body("foo").build();
 
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ class ClientObservationConventionAdapterTests {
 	@BeforeEach
 	void setup() {
 		this.context = new ClientRequestObservationContext();
-		this.context.setCarrier(this.request);
+		this.context.setCarrier(this.requestBuilder);
+		this.context.setRequest(this.requestBuilder.build());
 		this.context.setResponse(this.response);
 		this.context.setUriTemplate("/resource/{name}");
 	}