Demystifying Observability for Spring Applications
Timo Salm - Broadcom / Tiffany Jernigan - Grafana Labs
Observability is essential for any production application to ensure optimal performance, stability, and a seamless user experience.
Spring Boot offers powerful tools to make your application observable out of the box. However, effectively configuring and using them can sometimes be challenging. In this session, we will explore Spring Boot’s observability features - from logging, metrics, and tracing to health checks - explaining how they work and how to leverage them to gain real-time insights into your application’s behavior.
We’ll explore how to integrate these Spring Boot observability features with a monitoring stack, using Grafana LGTM and OpenTelemetry, to set up effective monitoring. By the end of the session, you will have the practical knowledge needed to configure your Spring Boot applications for full observability, helping you track performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure smoother operations in production.