Structured Logging Has Been”Best Practice” for Five Years. Why Most Java Teams Are Still Doing It Wrong

A diagnostic-focused look at the four failure modes nobody writes about: context lost across async boundaries, MDC leaks, log volume…

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Spring AI Explainable Agents: Capture LLM Tool Call Reasoning

Explainable AI agents aim to make the decision-making process of large language models (LLMs) transparent, especially when tools are invoked…

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Understanding Kubernetes Self Healing and How It Works

Kubernetes has become the backbone of modern cloud native applications largely because of its powerful self-healing capabilities. In distributed systems…

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eBPF: Kernel-LevelObservability.Superpowers for Linux

A technology running sandboxed programs inside the Linux kernel. No agents. No code changes. Zero instrumentation. Used in production at…

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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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OpenTelemetry Deep Dive: Building Observable Systems from the Ground Up

Modern software systems are increasingly complex, with applications spanning multiple services, containers, and cloud platforms. When issues arise—and they inevitably…

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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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