Monitoring Spring Applications

Abstract

So far in this book, a wide range of applications have been built using Spring with or without a user interface. Application monitoring is a process that ensures that a software application processes and performs in an expected manner and scope. To check that an application works as intended, the only techniques used so far in the book are logging and test executions. Logging is the most basic way of monitoring and helps developers identify problems in the application during development and after deploying it into production. After an application is deployed into production, it’s the job of an operations team to monitor logs, identify problems, and forward them to the development team doing the maintenance on the application. To monitor a running application, operation engineers use a myriad of tools to perform the following tasks.