https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/author/christian-meyer/Articles written by Christian Meyer on foojay.io - Friends of OpenJDKHugoen-usWed, 30 Mar 2022 06:30:58 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/observability-for-jvm-frameworks-with-grafana-in-java-and-kotlin/Wed, 30 Mar 2022 06:30:58 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/observability-for-jvm-frameworks-with-grafana-in-java-and-kotlin/<p><img src="https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/observability-for-jvm-frameworks-with-grafana-in-java-and-kotlin/observ_img1-700x470.png" alt="" loading="lazy"> </p> <p>Grafana dashboard for all running frameworks</p> <h2 id="h2-0-introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>In times of Cloud and distributed applications, it is becoming more and more important to be able to evaluate a functionality at runtime, an aspect which is referred to as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">observability</a> .</p> <p>A Cloud-based application is usually set up as a collection of different subsystems that may be located in one or more network zones or machines. These subsystems communicate with each other by passing messages (signals) and executing desired actions to each other. The whole collection then appears to the end user as a single coherent system.</p>