Lightweight Spring Boot Monitoring Without Prometheus and Grafana
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- StatLite provides a focused dashboard for monitoring Spring Boot applications using existing Actuator endpoints, without requiring a full monitoring stack.
- It addresses key operational questions such as application health, error rates, request latency, memory usage, restarts, and database reachability.
- StatLite is a single Go binary with SQLite storage, avoiding the need for monitoring agents or custom instrumentation beyond Actuator.
- Setup involves exposing Actuator endpoints, installing StatLite, adding a target configuration, and opening the dashboard locally.
- The tool is best for a few Spring Boot services on a VPS, and can coexist with larger solutions like Prometheus and Grafana for future scaling.
- StatLite is not suitable for large-scale deployments requiring long retention, advanced queries, alerting, tracing, or centralized logging.