Monitoring a Spring Boot app using Prometheus and Grafana

Eric Anicet
5 min readJul 29, 2024

Hello everyone! In this story, we’ll show how to use Prometheus and Grafana to monitor a Spring Boot app.

· Prerequisites
· Overview
What is Prometheus?
What is Grafana Open Source?
· Getting Started
Spring Boot Application
Set Up Prometheus and Grafana using Docker
Visualizing
· Conclusion
· References

Prerequisites

This is the list of all the prerequisites:

  • Spring Boot 3+
  • Maven 3.8.+
  • Java 17
  • Docker / Docker compose installed

Overview

What is Prometheus?

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community. It is now a standalone open-source project and maintained independently of any company. To emphasize this, and to clarify the project’s governance…

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