Include support for using Micrometer and Spring Boot Actuator to provide runtime metrics for Apache Geode and VMware Tanzu GemFire.

[jxblum]

Spring Boot for Apache Geode (SBDG) already includes Spring Boot Actuator support with extensive metrics and runtime configuration metadata for the Apache Geode cache instance, whether a client or a peer node in the cluster.

However, the Spring Boot Actuator integration needs to be refactored from the old model to the new HealthIndicators.

Additionally, now that Observability is a major theme for the Spring Framework 6 generation, Micrometer 2.0 integration should be evaluated.

[louisthomas]

Any update about adding geode metrics with Spring Boot actuator? Do you know when this feature will be available?

Thanks

[jxblum]

@louisthomas - There is already a preliminary implementation of metrics provided in and by SBDG now. See here.

However, extensive servers-side metrics accessible and visible from a Spring Boot, Apache Geode/Pivotal GemFire cache client application (which would allow a client to monitor and even respond to and/or act on server perf at runtime, dynamically), requires that Apache Geode/Pivotal GemFire formally support a Metrics gathering solution like Micrometer under-the-hood, see here.

Please let me know what you think about the current offering/interim solution, and what other metrics you feel would be important that are currently missing.

Thank you.

[jxblum]

@louisthomas - Also see GitHub Issue #5 for more details.