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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[@nicolasfelipe1]

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!

[@mdk1983]

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

[@llemieszewski]

Very helpful and concise video. Thanks a lot!

[@amiyas29]

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

[@shahabetminan]

Thank you for the useful content!👍

[@kaly7dev4873]

Thank you for you sharing !

[@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.

[@prithvirajan105]

Thank you so much☺

[@huutinphu4868]

keep up the good work sir

[@aladeli]

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

[@DanVega]

I'm trying to zoom into code snippets at certain points of the video. Can you tell me is it just that or are you seeing other issues?

[@aladeli]

@@DanVega yes it was just that

[@srivatsascs]

@@DanVega perhaps add word-wrap when punching in so that you get what you want, without losing any of the text overflowing off camera / capture area

[@Nick-yd3rc]

@@DanVega that was also the case in one of your recent YT shorts btw

[@fandusmercius723]

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

[@deverse]

thanks

[@ayed-al-nator]

Thx 💚

[@konstantingromov6485]

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

[@suikast420]

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

[@MrDomiko]

Two words ... Java Melody

[@Nick-yd3rc]

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?

[@marcingrzejszczak1716]

Maybe the JVM was warmed up? The first request is always slower

[@Nick-yd3rc]

@@marcingrzejszczak1716 sure, but that endpoint is supposed to fetch from a remote endpoint if I got it right. Unless the request was cached, it would take some 200ms for a roundtrip even after loading up all relevant execution paths, wouldn’t it?

[@marcingrzejszczak1716]

@@Nick-yd3rc I would have to debug this but I would be surprised if there was such a gigantic difference between AOP and code versions

[@jopadjr]

180th...Thanks Dan

[@JohnWindberg]

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

[@adityaparikh9544]

What is the difference between name and contextual name?

[@AndriusLau]

Why Maven and not Gradle? :)

[@medmoufahim]

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

[@adityatripathi2800]

He is using Intelli j Ultimate

[@USONOFAV]

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

[@MarkNuttall]

Blame oracle

[@tientcheu]

😂😂😂

[@amith5504]

how come nobody is talking about open telemetry ?

[@ashharr]

what ide is that?

[@thevagabond85yt]

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

[@DanVega]

What does that even mean? I have playlists on Spring Boot, Spring Data, GraphQL, etc...

[@FilipCodes]

How are @GetExchange and @GetMapping compared?

[@Nick-yd3rc]

Former for your web client which consumes a remote API, the latter for your controller which produces on your get endpoint.