Monitoring my Minecraft server with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

The Minecraft Server repository on GitHub provides step-by-step setup instructions you can follow along. I want a Minecraft server for multiplayer, where I can do mischief with the kids. And hopefully do not embarrass myself too much by being repeatedly killed by angry chickens or whatever. Kids these days think Java is not a cool programming language. Little do they know that it powers one of the games they love most: Minecraft. (Well, technically the “original” Minecraft server is written in Java. Microsoft made things confusing by adding the Bedrock server, which reportedly uses a combination of C, C# and Java, and is different in terms of gameplay from vanilla in subtle ways. Opinions on Reddit differ on why Bedrock needed to exist in the first place.) There are so many ways to host a Minecraft server when one considers the multiple launchers (ATLauncher, CurseForge, Bukkit, Fabric, Fork and the fifty more you are likely already typing in the comments). But I am a man of simple ... Read full article.