This document discusses using Micrometer to monitor applications. It begins with an introduction to Micrometer and examples of using it with Spring Boot to define metrics like timers, histograms and counters. It then covers integrating Micrometer with Prometheus to store metrics and Grafana for visualization. The document provides examples of visualizing different metric types in Grafana and recommends securing exposed metrics endpoints. It suggests Prometheus, Graphite or other databases to store metrics and discusses best practices like disabling unneeded endpoints and implementing security.

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You’re part of a racing team

4. Sounds silly right?
But what if we don’t have this kind of information?

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But why don’t we (developers) think about proper monitoring?

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Title Text
https://formulaf1results.blogspot.com/2020/01/f1-crash-wallpaper.html
Application X Application Y
Backend
(still driving but slow)

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If that’s happening…..

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Of course you can log it but…..

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A log is an event that happened
A metric is a measurement of the health of a system.
https://www.sumologic.com/blog/logs-metrics-overview/

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That’s where
Micrometer comes in

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Introduction

12. Speaking
about IDEs and Micrometer

13. Likes to drive
the trial bike

14. Working
for Blue4IT
@Rabobank

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https://www.signifytechnology.com/blog/2019/09/whats-your-tech-stack

17. Java 14
Spring Boot
Typescript
Angular
Cloud Foundry
Pipeline as code Micrometer

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Goals
Define the metrics
Create them in Micrometer
Save it to Prometheus
Visualize with Grafana
(Create the teams strategy)
(Preparing the car/race)
(The teams Pitwall)

20. https://www.redbull.com/nl-nl/red-bull-racing-zet-de-fabrieksdeuren-open
Create the teams strategy

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What do we want to monitor?

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How to be good in DevOps?

24. https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/toc/index.html

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It’s about
• Searching for race factors —> Service Level Indicators
• Creating tactics —> Service Level Objectives
• Creating a strategy —> Service Level Agreement

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Racing Factors —> Defining an indicator (SLI)
• pitstop
request latency
How long does it take to do a pitstop
How long does it take to return a response

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Tactics —> Defining an objective (SLO)
Shouldn’t take more than 8 seconds
Shouldn’t be taking more than 0.1 seconds
• pitstop
request latency

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Strategy —> Defining an agreement (SLA)
• 2 pitstops less then 8 seconds
99,9 % of all requests less than 0.1 seconds

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Goals
Define the metrics
Create them in Micrometer
Save it to Prometheus
Visualize with Grafana
(Create the teams strategy)
(Preparing the car/race)
(The teams Pitwall)

31. Micrometer for the win!
But what is it?

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SLF4J only for metrics

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Reasons to use Micrometer
• No vendor lock-in
• It’s Pivotal VMWare Tanzu
• Easy integration in Spring Boot
• So also support in Cloud Foundry
• Simple to use
• You can choose your own database / monitoring system
• You can define your own set of metrics
• But you get a lot for free

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Micrometer is included in Spring Boot 2 actuator
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>

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Extra dependency for Spring Boot 1.5.x
I<dependency>
<groupId>io.micrometer</groupId>
<artifactId>micrometer-spring-legacy</artifactId>
</dependency>

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And also for Micronaut

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Pre-configured Bindings
• Instrumentions of:
• caches
• class loader
• garbage collection
• processor utilisation
• thread pools
• and more

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Demo time

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Long Task Timer

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Timer

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https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/gallery/red-bull-racing-beats-record-to-set-new-fastest-pit-stop-in-the-history-of-f1_2.jpg

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Histograms

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Counter

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Gauge

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About security
• Please implement spring security
• Otherwise you will expose your endpoint to others
• And don’t forget to add it in your database config!
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-security-basic-authentication
https://egkatzioura.com/2020/05/07/spring-boot-and-micrometer-with-prometheus-part-6-securing-metrics/

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Sensitive data (!)
• Disable endpoints you don’t need

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Goals
Define the metrics
Create them in Micrometer
Save it to Prometheus
Visualize with Grafana
(Create the teams strategy)
(Preparing the car/race)
(The teams Pitwall)

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Where to store the metrics?
Which database should I use?

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Databases
• Prometheus
• Graphite
• Atlas
• KairosDB
Persistent or not persistent?

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If you want to expose to prometheus
<dependency>
<groupId>io.micrometer</groupId>
<artifactId>micrometer-registry-prometheus</artifactId>
</dependency>

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Or Graphite
<dependency>
<groupId>io.micrometer</groupId>
<artifactId>micrometer-registry-graphite</artifactId>
</dependency>

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How to configure your application
with prometheus

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Goals
Define the metrics
Create them in Micrometer
Save it to Prometheus
Visualize with Grafana
(Create the teams strategy)
(Preparing the car/race)
(The teams Pitwall)

61. https://blog.purestorage.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Pure-MBF1-Pitwall-v6.jpg

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How to visualise the application metrics?
Which monitoring system to use?

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Systems
• Grafana
• Datadog
• Dynatrace
• Instant
• WaveFront
• and many more

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Let’s deep dive into Grafana

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Long Task Timer (duration)

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Timer (count)

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Timer (max)

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Gauge

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Bindings

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73. All examples you can find at:
https://github.com/KoTurk/Javaland-Micrometer
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