Instrumenting metrics on your cloud-native application using MicroProfile Metrics

This is the second part of our MicroProfile observability trilogy, where we find ourselves in the thick of things with MicroProfile Metrics. The previous technology we discussed – MicroProfile Health – strived to report on the overall health of your cloud-native application by allowing you, the developer, to strategically place health checks throughout your application. MicroProfile Metrics, on the other hand, strives to report on the performance and inner workings of the application and its environment using metrics instrumented in the application by you, as well as metrics provided by the MicroProfile Metrics runtime. This provides real-time statistics that can be recorded and/or aggregated to be analyzed with specialized monitoring tools. To accomplish this, the MicroProfile Metrics technology comes well-equipped with seven types of metrics that range in complexity and functionality....