Akka Insights

Akka Insights (Cinnamon) is a suite of insight tools that provides a view into the workings of our distributed platforms. This view allows developers and operations to respond quickly to problems, track down unexpected behavior and even tune your system. As a result, you can deploy your applications to production with confidence.

What is Akka Insights? A picture says more than 1000 words, so let’s begin with an architecture overview of its components:

Akka Insights makes it possible to gather metric, event and trace information from Akka based applications. The information is transferred to various backends. The rest of this documentation provides an overview of Akka Insights (Cinnamon) and explains how to get started, configure and run Akka Insights in production.

Akka Insights requires a subscription from Lightbend.