As a Java developer, there’s nothing more frustrating than dealing with sluggish application performance in production. Diagnosing issues within complex microservice architectures can quickly become a time-consuming and daunting task. Fortunately, the Spring Boot framework offers a powerful observability stack that streamlines real-time monitoring and performance analysis. By leveraging tools like Spring Boot Actuator, Micrometer with InfluxDB, and Grafana, you can gather meaningful insights easily and quickly.
In this article, we’ll walk through setting up this stack using a simple “Card-Playing” app/game as our use case. For your reference, the complete working example is available on GitHub.