Using Micrometer to trace your Spring Boot app

If there’s one thing that eventually sneaks up on you after building and releasing an application, it’s that something breaks. Yup, applications break and not long after, our manager is asking, “What happened?”

That’s not the only thing we encounter in the Land of Production. We also sometimes see performance degrade. Certain parts of our system seem bogged down. And once again, the question arises, “What’s going on?”

This is what tracing affords us. A means to trace an operation through our application combined with metrics…