Stop Relying Only on Logs: 8 Observability Tools to Supercharge Spring Boot Monitoring
The article explains why traditional log‑only debugging no longer works for modern Spring Boot microservices and systematically introduces eight observability solutions—OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Zipkin, Elastic Stack, Datadog, and eBPF—showing how each addresses the three core questions of what is happening, why it happens, and what will happen next.
