Prometheus, as a metrics solution, gets its data by actively reading it from designated services – a process known as scraping. This approach might not work if your workload contains short-lived tasks, as your task may not fall within the scraping time window.

Luckily, Prometheus has a solution for this: the Pushgateway.

It presents a push-based target for your metrics that itself is scraped by Prometheus. But how do you configure this in a Spring Boot application? Let me show you.

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