Handling NaN Values in Java Micrometer Gauges with Prometheus

Micrometer is the de facto metrics instrumentation library for JVM-based applications, and Prometheus is a common backend for collecting and…

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Micrometer’s Observation API: Unified Observability for the JVM

For too long, the gap between writing code and understanding its production behavior has been frustratingly wide. We’ve deployed applications,…

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Metric Tagging in Micrometer

Micrometer is the instrumentation facade in Spring Boot’s observability ecosystem, providing a unified API to collect, tag, and publish metrics…

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Testing Micrometer Metrics in Spring Boot Applications

Micrometer is a metrics collection library that provides a vendor-neutral API for instrumenting applications. In a Spring Boot environment, it…

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Spring Kafka Metrics with Micrometer

Apache Kafka is a popular distributed event streaming platform. In modern Spring Boot applications, integrating Kafka with observability tools like…

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Using OpenTelemetry with Spring Boot for Distributed Tracing

Integrating Jaeger, Zipkin, or Tempo via Micrometer and OpenTelemetry Modern microservices are powerful—but they introduce complexity. When dozens of services…

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Spring Boot and Micrometer with Prometheus Part 6: Securing metrics

Previously we successfully spun up our Spring Boot application With Prometheus. An endpoint in our Spring application is exposing our…

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Spring Boot and Micrometer with Prometheus Part 5: Spinning up prometheus

Previously we got our Spring Boot Application adapter in order to expose the endpoints for prometheus.This blog will focus on…

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Spring Boot and Micrometer with Prometheus Part 4: The base project

In previous posts we had a look on Spring Micrometer and InfluxDB. So you are gonna ask me why prometheus.The…

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