Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
#VoxxedDaysCERN26
We’ve all been there: something goes wrong in production, and the logs don’t tell the whole story. In this talk, we’ll go beyond basic health checks and dive into how Spring Boot Actuator and Micrometer can help you build applications that are not just functional, but also transparent, diagnosable, and production-ready.
Through practical examples, we’ll show how to enable and customize Actuator endpoints to gain real-time insights into your application's state. We’ll also demonstrate how to collect metrics using Micrometer and export them to Prometheus. Visualizing metrics and setting up alerts in Grafana will also be covered.
Another focus of the session is integrating OpenTelemetry to enable distributed tracing across multiple services. To wrap up, we’ll share best practices for systematically and sustainably embedding observability into your development process.
Whether you're working locally or running in Kubernetes – this session will show you how to meaningfully improve the observability of your Spring Boot application without getting lost in technical complexity.
#VoxxedDaysCERN26
We’ve all been there: something goes wrong in production, and the logs don’t tell the whole story. In this talk, we’ll go beyond basic health checks and dive into how Spring Boot Actuator and Micrometer can help you build applications that are not just functional, but also transparent, diagnosable, and production-ready.
Through practical examples, we’ll show how to enable and customize Actuator endpoints to gain real-time insights into your application's state. We’ll also demonstrate how to collect metrics using Micrometer and export them to Prometheus. Visualizing metrics and setting up alerts in Grafana will also be covered.
Another focus of the session is integrating OpenTelemetry to enable distributed tracing across multiple services. To wrap up, we’ll share best practices for systematically and sustainably embedding observability into your development process.
Whether you're working locally or running in Kubernetes – this session will show you how to meaningfully improve the observability of your Spring Boot application without getting lost in technical complexity.
![[VDBUH2026] Victor Rentea - Kenote: AI Didn’t Replace You. It Promoted You!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5hVlf9_G71Q/mqdefault.jpg "[VDBUH2026] Victor Rentea - Kenote: AI Didn’t Replace You. It Promoted You!
We’ve always been rewarded for writing code, debugging systems, and mastering frameworks. But today, AI no longer just assists – it builds, analyzes, debugs, and reasons, so our role gets upgraded to shaping systems, taking decisions, and achieving outcomes. But as our attention moves away from code, how can we remain in control and keep the quality high? That’s the tension many senior engineers feel. This talk explores how AI agents can offload our chores, preserve our mental energy, and amplify our impact across the system—distilling lessons from early adopters of agentic engineering.
But this is not a talk about tools. It’s a talk about identity.
Because the real question today isn’t: “Will AI change my job?”
It’s: “Will I evolve fast enough to stay relevant?”")
