When you are building an application with Java (or any other language, for that matter), there are certain aspects that you need to monitor constantly. This monitoring helps a long way in retaining your product's marketability and improving customer satisfaction.

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open source, vendor-neutral observability framework that supplies APIs, SDKs, and tools for the instrumentation of cloud-native applications and services. OTel enables you to collect metrics, logs, and traces from a variety of sources and route them to various backends. By itself, however, it can’t help you analyze this data or correlate telemetry from different parts of your stack.

It can be challenging to understand the specific factors that can cause traffic to surge on your website. Sometimes there are temporary spikes, usually related to sales or special events, and other times this increase in traffic can be permanent. Website owners should be ready to handle large volumes of visitors as any breakdown, no matter how short-lived, can cause you to lose potential business.