Observability 101 with Spring and Micrometer

Explore the fundamentals of observability in Spring applications with Micrometer in this 38-minute conference talk from Devoxx. Discover why observability is essential for application engineers, providing crucial insights into application performance, debugging, and overall software health. Learn about telemetry data, including logs, metrics, and traces, and understand the importance of instrumenting applications during development. Dive into Micrometer, a vendor-neutral method for instrumenting Spring applications, and its compatibility with OpenTelemetry in Spring 6 and SpringBoot 3. Examine the Observation API and its practical applications. Investigate end tools like Loki, Jaeger, and Prometheus for representing telemetry data, and gain insights into extracting meaningful information for various stakeholders, including SREs.

Observability 101 with Spring and Micrometer by Nele Uhlemann