Chapter 6. Monitoring Microservices
In this chapter, we will learn how to setup a monitoring system for our microservice. We will cover the following recipes:
Configuring Spring Boot Actuator metrics
Understanding Spring Boot Actuator metrics
Creating custom metrics using Dropwizard
Setting up Graphite using Docker
Using the Graphite interface
Exporting Dropwizard metrics over to Graphite
Exporting Spring Boot Actuator metrics over to Graphite
Setting up Grafana using Docker
Configuring Grafana to use Graphite
Configuring Grafana dashboards to view metrics