Application Behaviour: Exposed
Channel: Java User Group Switzerland
Date: 29/08/2021

Speaker: Etienne Dysli Metref
Recorded: 2021-08-24

00:00 Intro
01:51 Talk
29:33 Q&A

What's your application doing when you're not looking? It produces usage data that's just there, waiting to be brought to light! In this talk, we'll explore multi-dimensional monitoring tools and how they help us make sense of application metrics from an operational view as well as from a business perspective. We'll see how simple integrations like metrics from a Spring Boot application collected by Prometheus and visualised with Grafana can net you quick insights into what happens in production. Adding your own metrics is now easier with Micrometer, this allows us to measure what the business cares about and help inform their decisions. Instrument your code and run that dashboard you've been dreaming of!

Etienne is a passionate software engineer, driving code with tests and automating everything that comes near. He works for SWITCH and puts his experience into improving and running SWITCH edu-ID, the life-long identity for accessing academic services. He also contributes to various open-source projects.

Besides the digital world, Etienne enjoys playing games, woodworking, painting miniatures (for said games, of course), and embarking on the next crazy idea.

Links from the presentation:
- Micrometer: https://micrometer.io/
- Prometheus: https://prometheus.io/
- Grafana: https://grafana.com/
- Community dashboards for Spring Boot applications:
   https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/9568
   https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/4701
- SWITCH edu-ID: https://www.switch.ch/edu-id/

Organized by: Java User Group Switzerland
https://www.jug.ch/