Imagine it's Friday afternoon. You're looking forward to enjoying your weekend when an Ops engineer forwards you a blocking issue with an HTTP 500 error.

He couldn't pinpoint the root cause due to a lack of contextual information. After a few hours, you finally manage to identify it by reproducing and debugging it on your computer.

If you often encounter such issues, it likely means that you may have overlooked developing one of the most important features of your application: Observability!

In this workshop, we will implement logging best practices and cover the entire observability stack from libraries to storage backend and visualization tools based on the Grafana Suite (Tempo, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Alloy). We will gain an understanding of how Java Developers can make Ops their best friends by making our Java application more reliable and production-ready!