The good news for us is that Spring Boot comes with a built-in mechanism for collecting the most important metrics. It is Spring Boot Admin developed by Codecentric. Meter There are 4 main types of metrics available: CounterGaugeTimerDistribution summary To keep the post readable in one piece, it will be limited to Counter and Gauge All metrics inherit from the base Meter class. Also, metrics might not have one single value but different values, like minimum, maximum, mean, etc.