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Quarkus 3.28 just shipped a feature Iโ€™ve wanted for years: Dashboards-as-Code.

You can now bundle Grafana dashboards directly in META-INF/grafana/ and Dev Services auto-provisions them on startup.
Metrics, dashboards, and even AI token tracking (LangChain4j + Ollama) โ€” all versioned with your source code.

A clean win for real #ObservabilityAsCode.

๐Ÿ”— https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/quarkus-observability-as-code-grafana-dashboards

#Java #Quarkus #Micrometer #Grafana #DevServices #LangChain4j

The goal of Arconia OpenTelemetry is to provide a single dependency you can add to your Spring Boot application to get unified Java observability with minimal configuration and maximum compatibility with both OpenTelemetry and Micrometer ecosystems.

#Java #SpringBoot #OpenTelemetry #Arconia #Micrometer

https://www.thomasvitale.com/spring-boot-observability-arconia-opentelemetry/

Spring Boot Observability with Arconia OpenTelemetry

Arconia OpenTelemetry enhances observability for Spring Boot by combining the standardization of OpenTelemetry with the robustness of Micrometer.

Thomas Vitale

Just published: Building a Real-Time RSS Integration with Quarkus + Apache Camel

- Stream and transform RSS feeds
- Persist as JSON
- Track authors & publications per month with Micrometer

Read here: https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/quarkus-camel-rss-integration-metrics

#Quarkus #Camel #Java #Micrometer #Observability

How to Unit Test Micrometer | Baeldung

Unit testing metrics is crucial for ensuring that our application correctly tracks performance data and business metrics. By using Micrometer's SimpleMeterRegistry, we can create isolated tests that verify our metrics collection without requiring a full Spring context. When it comes to integration tests, we need to reset the MeterRegistry to perform assertions on it during our @SpringBootTests.

Baeldung on Kotlin
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have made light-powered #gears on a #micrometer scale. This paves the way for the smallest on-chip motors in history, which can fit inside a strand of hair.
#Microtechnology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/09/nt09182501.html
Light-powered motor fits inside a strand of hair

We have built a gear train in which a light-driven gear sets the entire chain in motion

New release (3.4.1) of the quarkus-micrometer-registry.
It includes a new registry compatible with #Micrometer Prometheus Client V1.x.
In a future Quarkusio 4.x version, this client will become available in Quarkus core.
https://github.com/quarkiverse/quarkus-micrometer-registry/releases/tag/3.4.1
Release 3.4.1 ยท quarkiverse/quarkus-micrometer-registry

What's Changed Create CODEOWNERS by @gastaldi in #446 Bump quarkus.version from 3.19.1 to 3.19.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #476 Version Upgrades by @brunobat in #488 Bump quarkus.version from 3.21.1 ...

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โ€œ๐‘ด๐’Š๐’„๐’“๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘—๐‘’๐‘๐‘กโ€ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก, ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘€๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‚๐‘๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐ด๐‘ƒ๐ผโ€ฆ ๐ผ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐’๐’ƒ๐’”๐’†๐’“๐’—๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ.โ€ - ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ข๐ง ๐†๐ซ๐ณ๐ž๐ฃ๐ฌ๐ณ๐œ๐ณ๐š๐ค (developer, consultant, mentor at Too Much Coding, & Java Champion)

๐ŸŽง Listen to the #InfoQ #podcast for more insights: https://bit.ly/3HIwXjA

#Micrometer #Java #Observability #Monitoring #Performance

๐Ÿงช Observability of your Application
Lightning talk โ†’ Friday, July 25 @ 7PM GMT+2

Iโ€™ll show how to use Micrometer, metrics, traces, and logs to debug real latency and errorsโ€”fast.
Join here โ†’ https://maven.com/p/1dcc10/observability-of-your-application

#Observability #Java #Micrometer #SpringCloud

Observability of your Application

Fixing latency & errors is critical - observability helps you find and solve issues fast using real data, not guesswork.

Whatโ€™s Really Going On in Your Quarkus App? A Java Developerโ€™s Guide to Jolokia and Hawtio
https://myfear.substack.com/p/whats-really-going-on-in-your-quarkus
#Java #Quarkus #Observability #Micrometer
Whatโ€™s Really Going On in Your Quarkus App? A Java Developerโ€™s Guide to Jolokia and Hawtio

Learn how to peek inside the JVM, monitor real-time behavior, and explore live metrics with Jolokia, Hawtio, and Micrometer: All from your Quarkus application.

Enterprise Java and Quarkus