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Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Fourth Edition
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In this chapter, we will learn how to use Prometheus and Grafana to collect, monitor, and alert us about performance metrics. As we mentioned in Chapter 1, Introduction to Microservices, in a production environment, it is crucial to be able to collect metrics for application performance and hardware resource usage. Monitoring these metrics is required to avoid long response times or outages for API requests and other processes.
To be able to monitor a system landscape of microservices cost-efficiently and proactively, we must also be able to define alarms that are triggered automatically if the metrics exceed the configured limits.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: