Monitoring Latencies - How Fast Is Your REST Service

Explore the intricacies of monitoring REST service performance in this 46-minute conference talk by Dr. Fabian Stäber at Devoxx. Gain insights into various algorithms implemented by popular Java metric libraries for measuring service response times. Examine the implications of different monitoring approaches on dashboards, SLOs, and alerts. Learn about the ongoing developments in the Prometheus and OpenTelemetry communities regarding sparse and exponential histograms. Discover how to choose the most suitable implementation for your specific use case and improve your understanding of latency data on monitoring dashboards. Benefit from the expertise of Dr. Stäber, an engineering manager at Grafana, Prometheus open source project member, and maintainer of the Prometheus Java client library and JMX exporter.