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Chill+, a video streaming platform, is becoming increasingly popular. To support its success, the company, which uses Java to develop its microservice architecture, is scaling out its Kubernetes cluster. As a software engineer, your task is to take control of the company’s skyrocketing infrastructure costs, and your solution is to reduce resource consumption by increasing observability. You’ll configure Chill+’s Catalog API log using Quarkus’ built-in logging capabilities, add default Quarkus healthiness and readiness probes, and use Micrometer, a JVM-based metrics instrumentation library, to expose the API’s performance and export those metrics to Prometheus and Grafana. When you’re done, you’ll have provided a level of observability that will help Chill+ monitor and reduce resource consumption, significantly decreasing infrastructure costs.
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- Basic understanding of Docker containers
- Run curl commands and use Linux environment variables on the command line
- Configure a logging framework in a Java ecosystem
- Develop Java tests using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and test containers
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll learn how to add probes, metrics, logs, and tracing to an API to fulfill the observability principles.
- Install Quarkus Health and Metrics extension
- Define custom health and readiness probes
- Configure Quarkus logger
- Expose default application metrics
- Define custom metrics
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