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title: "Observing Apache NetBeans with OpenTelemetry and Dash0"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/observing-apache-netbeans-with-opentelemetry-and-dash0-u449wcic9
source_url: https://foojay.io/today/observing-apache-netbeans-with-opentelemetry-and-dash0
type: article
source: "Foojay.io"
published: 2026-06-14T22:03:28.190Z
updated: 2026-06-14T22:03:52.438Z
tags: ["observability", "opentelemetry", "jvm"]
reading_time: 10
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Observing Apache NetBeans with OpenTelemetry and Dash0

**[Foojay.io](https://daily.dev/sources/foojayio)** · 10 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A hands-on experiment attaching the OpenTelemetry Java agent to Apache NetBeans IDE instead of a production service. By patching netbeans.conf with three JVM flags and one config file change, the author routes JVM metrics, outbound HTTP spans, and bridged log records to Dash0. The result: real heap usage breakdowns by GC pool, thread counts, startup HTTP calls to update servers, deprecation warnings, and exit codes — all without writing a single line of plugin code. The post argues this approach can be applied fleet-wide to track IDE startup regressions, detect plugin-induced thread leaks, and correlate developer-side events with application-side telemetry in the same observability backend.

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Tags: [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#opentelemetry](https://daily.dev/tags/opentelemetry), [#jvm](https://daily.dev/tags/jvm)

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