12.1. Introducing monitoring

In the scope of computer science, the word monitoring is used in different contexts: network, system, and website monitoring, for example. In all cases, monitoring aims to detect problems automatically and notify administrators through dedicated consoles and applications. This is a best practice used to detect errors that may occur in an application. For Spring Batch applications, this means detecting errors in jobs and notifying administrators.

In this section, we show what monitoring looks like at a high level and see its function in the context of batch job executions.