Production Best Practices & Observability — Java + Spring Boot Roadmap

Keeping a running Spring Boot service healthy and debuggable

Steps in Production Best Practices & Observability

Spring Boot Actuator — advanced · Built-in production-ready endpoints for health, metrics and application info
Logging with SLF4J & Logback — advanced · Structured, leveled logging that's actually useful when debugging production issues
Metrics with Micrometer & Prometheus — advanced · Exposing application metrics in a format monitoring tools can scrape and graph
Health Checks & Readiness/Liveness Probes — advanced · Telling an orchestrator when a service is ready for traffic vs needs to be restarted
Error Tracking (Sentry) — advanced · Capturing and triaging production errors automatically
The Twelve-Factor App Principles — advanced · A widely used checklist for building cloud-native, horizontally scalable services