Monitoring and metrics

Since version 4.2, Spring Batch provides support for batch monitoring and metrics based on Micrometer. This section describes which metrics are provided out-of-the-box and how to contribute custom metrics.

Built-in metrics

Metrics collection does not require any specific configuration. All metrics provided by the framework are registered in Micrometer’s global registry under the spring.batch prefix. The following table explains all the metrics in details:

Metric Name

Type

Description

Tags

spring.batch.job

TIMER

Duration of job execution

name, status

spring.batch.job.active

LONG_TASK_TIMER

Currently active jobs

name

spring.batch.step

TIMER

Duration of step execution

name, job.name, status

spring.batch.step.active

LONG_TASK_TIMER

Currently active step

name

spring.batch.item.read

TIMER

Duration of item reading

job.name, step.name, status

spring.batch.item.process

TIMER

Duration of item processing

job.name, step.name, status

spring.batch.chunk.write

TIMER

Duration of chunk writing

job.name, step.name, status
The status tag can be either SUCCESS or FAILURE.

Custom metrics

If you want to use your own metrics in your custom components, we recommend using Micrometer APIs directly. The following is an example of how to time a Tasklet:

import io.micrometer.core.instrument.Metrics;
import io.micrometer.core.instrument.Timer;

import org.springframework.batch.core.StepContribution;
import org.springframework.batch.core.scope.context.ChunkContext;
import org.springframework.batch.core.step.tasklet.Tasklet;
import org.springframework.batch.repeat.RepeatStatus;

public class MyTimedTasklet implements Tasklet {

	@Override
	public RepeatStatus execute(StepContribution contribution, ChunkContext chunkContext) {
		Timer.Sample sample = Timer.start(Metrics.globalRegistry);
		String status = "success";
		try {
			// do some work
		} catch (Exception e) {
			// handle exception
			status = "failure";
		} finally {
			sample.stop(Timer.builder("my.tasklet.timer")
					.description("Duration of MyTimedTasklet")
					.tag("status", status)
					.register(Metrics.globalRegistry));
		}
		return RepeatStatus.FINISHED;
	}
}

Disabling Metrics

Metrics collection is a concern similar to logging. Disabling logs is typically done by configuring the logging library, and this is no different for metrics. There is no feature in Spring Batch to disable Micrometer’s metrics. This should be done on Micrometer’s side. Since Spring Batch stores metrics in the global registry of Micrometer with the spring.batch prefix, you can configure micrometer to ignore or deny batch metrics with the following snippet:

Metrics.globalRegistry.config().meterFilter(MeterFilter.denyNameStartsWith("spring.batch"))

See Micrometer’s reference documentation for more details.

Tracing

As of version 5, Spring Batch provides tracing through Micrometer’s Observation API. By default, tracing is enabled when using @EnableBatchProcessing. Spring Batch will create a trace for each job execution and a span for each step execution.

If you do not use EnableBatchProcessing, you need to register a BatchObservabilityBeanPostProcessor in your application context, which will automatically setup Micrometer’s observability in your jobs and steps beans.