Spring Boot and Micrometer with InlfuxDB Part 2: Adding InfluxDB

Emmanouil GkatziourasFebruary 27th, 2020Last Updated: February 25th, 2020

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Since we added our base application it is time for us to spin up an InfluxDB instance.

We shall follow a previous tutorial and add a docker instance.

docker run –rm -p 8086:8086 –name influxdb-local influxdb

Time to add the micrometer InfluxDB dependency on our pom

<dependencies>
...
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.micrometer</groupId>
            <artifactId>micrometer-core</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.micrometer</groupId>
            <artifactId>micrometer-registry-influx</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.2</version>
        </dependency>
...
</dependencies>

Time to add the configuration through the application.yaml

management:
  metrics:
    export:
      influx:
        enabled: true
        db: devjobsapi
        uri: http://127.0.0.1:8086
  endpoints:
    web:
      expose: "*"

Let’s spin up our application and do some requests.
After some time we can check the database and the data contained.

docker exec -it influxdb-local influx
> SHOW DATABASES;
name: databases
name
----
_internal
devjobsapi
> use devjobsapi
Using database devjobsapi
> SHOW MEASUREMENTS
name: measurements
name
----
http_server_requests
jvm_buffer_count
jvm_buffer_memory_used
jvm_buffer_total_capacity
jvm_classes_loaded
jvm_classes_unloaded
jvm_gc_live_data_size
jvm_gc_max_data_size
jvm_gc_memory_allocated
jvm_gc_memory_promoted
jvm_gc_pause
jvm_memory_committed
jvm_memory_max
jvm_memory_used
jvm_threads_daemon
jvm_threads_live
jvm_threads_peak
jvm_threads_states
logback_events
process_cpu_usage
process_files_max
process_files_open
process_start_time
process_uptime
system_cpu_count
system_cpu_usage
system_load_average_1m

That’s pretty awesome. Let’s check the endpoints accessed.

> SELECT*FROM http_server_requests;
name: http_server_requests
time                count exception mean        method metric_type outcome status sum         upper       uri
----                ----- --------- ----        ------ ----------- ------- ------ ---         -----       ---
1582586157093000000 1     None      252.309331  GET    histogram   SUCCESS 200    252.309331  252.309331  /actuator
1582586157096000000 0     None      0           GET    histogram   SUCCESS 200    0           2866.531375 /jobs/github/{page}

Pretty great! The next step would be to visualise those metrics.

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