Spring Boot Integration

Spring Boot Integration

Spring Boot lets you set up, configure, and run both simple and web-based applications. Wavefront supports Spring Boot in two ways:

• This integration has setup steps for configuring a Spring Boot application to send data to Wavefront. A dashboard for examining metrics is included with this integration.
• The Spring Boot tutorial shows how to send data using the Spring Petclinic application.

In addition to setting up the metrics flow, this integration also installs a dashboard that allows you to monitor the performance of your Spring Boot application. Here’s a preview of the dashboard:

Spring Boot Setup

Wavefront for Spring Boot allows you to quickly configure your environment, so Spring Boot 3 components send metrics, histograms, and traces or spans to the Wavefront service. For more information, see Wavefront for Spring Boot 3 documentation.

Note: If you are using Spring Boot 2, see Wavefront for Spring Boot 2 documentation.

Configure Your Application

Follow the steps given below to add the required dependencies to the pom.xml file of an existing Spring project that uses Maven.

Note: If you are using Gradle, see Initialize and Configure Your Project and click the Initialize an Existing Project tab for more details.

• Import the wavefront-spring-boot-bom Bill Of Materials (BOM).

    <dependencyManagement>
      <dependencies>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>com.wavefront</groupId>
          <artifactId>wavefront-spring-boot-bom</artifactId>
          <version>3.0.1</version>
          <type>pom</type>
          <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
      </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>
  

  Replace $releaseVersion with the latest version mentioned in the documentation.

• Add the wavefront-spring-boot-starter to your project.

    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.wavefront</groupId>
      <artifactId>wavefront-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
    </dependency>
  

• If you want to send trace data using Micrometer Tracing, add the following dependencies.

    <dependency>
      <groupId>io.micrometer</groupId>
      <artifactId>micrometer-tracing-bridge-brave</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>io.micrometer</groupId>
      <artifactId>micrometer-tracing-reporter-wavefront</artifactId>
      <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
  

Custom Configurations

Optionally, you can:

• Invite users and let them send data to the same cluster.
• Configure your application to send data via the Wavefront proxy because Wavefront for Spring Boot sends data via direct ingestion by default.

For details, see Custom Configurations.