Practical Spring Boot Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana

Is your Spring Boot application a black box once it's deployed? Gain confidence and visibility by learning how to build a robust monitoring system to understand its performance and health in real time. This course provides a practical, step-by-step guide to instrumenting your applications with Spring Boot Actuator, collecting time-series data with Prometheus, and creating insightful dashboards in Grafana. You'll move from theory to practice, setting up a complete monitoring stack to track application health, performance, and custom business metrics. What you'll learn: - Understand the core principles of application monitoring and observability. - Instrument Spring Boot applications using Actuator and Micrometer to expose vital metrics. - Configure Prometheus to automatically discover and scrape metrics from your services. - Write basic PromQL queries to explore and analyze your application data. - Build dynamic, informative dashboards in Grafana to visualize performance. - Create and track custom business-specific metrics to gain deeper insights. - Set up and manage your complete monitoring stack using Docker and Docker Compose. The course begins with foundational concepts of metrics and monitoring before guiding you through the practical steps of instrumenting an application, configuring your tools, and building useful dashboards and alerts. This course is designed for beginners. No prior experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or application monitoring is required, though a basic understanding of Spring Boot will be helpful. Start building more reliable and observable applications today.