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Aug 4, 2024 OpenTelemetry tracing Spring Boot Java Agent micrometer

OpenTelemetry Tracing on Spring Boot, Java Agent vs. Micrometer Tracing

My demo of OpenTelemetry Tracing features two Spring Boot components. One uses the Java agent, and I noticed a different behavior when I recently upgraded it from v1.x to v2.x. In the other one, I’m using Micrometer Tracing because I compile to GraalVM native, and it can’t process Java agents. I want to compare these three different ways in this post: Java agent v1, Java agent v2, and Micrometer Tracing. The base application and its infrastructure I’ll use the same base ap

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Aug 28, 2022 Devops OpenTelemetry Jaeger observability tracing

End-to-end tracing with OpenTelemetry

Whether you implement or not microservices (and you probably shouldn’t), your system is most probably composed of multiple components. The most straightforward system is probably made of a reverse proxy, an app, and a database. In this case, monitoring is not only a good idea; it’s a requirement. The higher the number of components through which a request may flow, the strongest the requirement. However, monitoring is only the beginning of the journey. When requests start to fail en

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