In this interactive session, we take a close look at GraalVM and its impressive achievements. Example applications have been benefiting from the outstanding startup times in the native environment for some time now. With the latest versions, the build time has also been significantly shortened. The question now arises: What about monitoring? Without the conventional JVM, can we still collect meaningful metrics? And what tools are available to us?

I will deploy a traditional Spring application on native terrain as an example. Additionally, a Quarkus service will be set up. These two services will interact with each other and with databases, providing a comprehensive demonstration of a microservices architecture in a native environment running on Azure Container Apps. Using open-source tools and Azure Monitoring, we will monitor the application and try to tackle this challenge without conventional JVM metrics. Let’s find out together which metrics we can extract and whether they are sufficient to get a comprehensive picture.