Monitoring A Spring Boot Application, Part 3: Rules & Alerting

When your application is exposing useful metrics about how it’s behaving, there’s no fun in constantly monitoring it for problems. Instead, you need to configure rules and alerts for when those rules are broken. In this article you’ll discover how to set up such a simple email alerting system for your Spring Boot application. This is part 3 in the series about monitoring a Spring Boot application. If you’re not yet familiar with Prometheus, be sure to check out part 2 where we discuss it in detail....

November 1, 2019 · Tom Gregory