Lightweight Spring Boot Monitoring Without Prometheus and Grafana
← Back to Articles Lightweight Spring Boot Monitoring Without Prometheus and Grafana by Ted Kupolov · July 19, 2026 Running one Spring Boot application or a handful of them on a VPS still calls for basic operational visibility. You need to know whether an application is reachable, whether errors are rising, and whether it restarted. You may not need a complete monitoring platform to answer those questions.
- ▪← Back to Articles Lightweight Spring Boot Monitoring Without Prometheus and Grafana by Ted Kupolov · July 19, 2026 Running one Spring Boot application or a handful of them on a VPS still calls for basic operational visibility.
- ▪You need to know whether an application is reachable, whether errors are rising, and whether it restarted.
- ▪You may not need a complete monitoring platform to answer those questions.
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← Back to Articles Lightweight Spring Boot Monitoring Without Prometheus and Grafana by Ted Kupolov · July 19, 2026 Running one Spring Boot application or a handful of them on a VPS still calls for basic operational visibility. You need to know whether an application is reachable, whether errors are rising, and whether it restarted. You may not need a complete monitoring platform to answer those questions. Spring Boot Actuator already exposes much of that information. StatLite turns it into a focused dashboard for health, requests, errors, latency, memory, uptime, and restarts. It runs as one Go binary and stores its history in SQLite.
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