Introduction

The Spring framework utilizes the Micrometer instrumentation for variois observaility use cases. It enables applications to provide runtime Metrics and Traces which are then collected by monitoring systems. The Spring Boot with the Spring Actuator automatically instruments various part of application.

Details of Spring Observation can be found here.

Following Observations are produced by Spring Framework:

Observation name	Description
http.client.requests	Time spent for HTTP client exchanges
http.server.requests	Processing time for HTTP server exchanges at the Framework level
jms.message.publish	Time spent sending a JMS message to a destination by a message producer.
jms.message.process	Processing time for a JMS message that was previously received by a message consumer.
tasks.scheduled.execution	Processing time for an execution of a @Scheduled task