Spring Boot Observability Uncovered: Enabling & Using the Observation API

Observability was a major theme with Spring Boot 3 and beyond. In this tutorial you will learn how to enable observability in your applications by including the Spring Boot Actuator. From there you will learn how view traces using a tool like Zipkin. Finally you will learn how to hook into the Observation API and write your own observations.

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[nicolasfelipe]

very nice, my hair stopped becoming white once I completely migrated from laravel to spring boot, so friendly and complete framework.

[JonathanStein]

Been using the metrics actuator for a long while and love how easy it has become to wire in custom observability. Great tutorial!

[llemieszewski]

Very helpful and concise video. Thanks a lot!

[amiyas]

Great content! Practical live coding, latest. Thanks for your efforts

[mdk]

Guess the co-pilot kept the video shorter than it should have been! Excellent video Dan

[konstantingromov]

Hi, Dan, thanks for the video.
Is there simplified way in new Spring observability to add and propagate both traceId and spanId across microservices?

[emmanuelgaillardon]

Hello Dan. First of all, I want to tell you that I really like your videos. Always interesting.
Regarding this topic, is it possible to enable an observation using an aspect instead of annotated the code ? Thank you.

[suikast]

Awesome. The Reslient is only observed if I create it over a Bean method. Is there another way to instrument the rest client ?

[Nick-ydrc]

Dan thanks for that, I got used to the Netflix stack, transitioned to Micrometer and otel recently, nice it’s autoconfigurable now. But did you notice your AOP-annotated bean only measured 8.7ms as opposed to over 300ms before that, when you explicitly defined the span? Any idea what the auto-configured span measures?

[fandusmercius]

cant we track the trace between same class @observed calling another method which is in the same class also annotated with @observed

[medmoufahim]

Hello, what is the intellij plugin that help you generate code please ? thanks

[JohnWindberg]

Anyone know how to get Spring Observability to export logs and not just traces to the otel-collecteor?

[adityaparikh]

What is the difference between name and contextual name?

[aladeli]

The video looks a little bit cropped, but great content as always

[amith]

how come nobody is talking about open telemetry ?

[USONOFAV]

Whoever chooses to rename javax to jakarta deliberately wanted developers to suffer in their migration

[thevagabondyt]

his playlist management esp Spring Boot is a big reason not subscribed yet.

[FilipCodes]

How are @GetExchange and @GetMapping compared?