Monitoring Cats

This project shows how monitoring of a Spring Boot Application and the system around it can be done. For the easy installation docker containers are used to run the needed software.

To get the steps take a look at the commits of this project. They guide you through the process step-by-step. Take note that on some commits there is more text in the commit message, make sure you expand the message to see the whole text.

Project Overview

The Project is small Spring Boot application which serves a cat image on http://localhost:8080/cat.jpg. There is also a test to demonstrate the testing scenario. A Dockerfile is also included to package the application in a docker environment for easier demonstration.

Project execution

To execute the application for testing, execute ./gradlew bootRun on the commandline.

Build the Dockerfile

1. Run ./gradlew bootJar
2. Run docker-compose build

Documentation

• Spring Boot Actuators
• Prometues Scrape config docs
• Grafana config docs
• Glances Repository
• Loki Getting Started
• Promtail Docs (log file reader)
• Loki Docker Logging driver docs