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fieldju/armory-observability-plugin — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-07-17 · repo last pushed 2020-06-23

Audience · ops devopsComplexity · 3/5DormantSetup · moderate

TL;DR

A Spinnaker plugin that exports deployment metrics to monitoring tools like Prometheus and New Relic, with custom tags for filtering dashboards.

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    What it does
      Exports Spinnaker metrics
      Custom tags
      No extra daemon
    Tech stack
      Java
      Spinnaker
      Prometheus
      New Relic
    Use cases
      Monitor deployment health
      Filter by customer or env
      Debug failures faster
    Audience
      DevOps engineers
      Platform teams

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Export Spinnaker's internal metrics to Prometheus or New Relic dashboards.

REASON 2

Tag metrics with customer name or environment to filter production issues quickly.

REASON 3

Get observability into a Spinnaker deployment without running a separate monitoring daemon.

What's in the stack?

JavaSpinnakerPrometheusNew Relic

How it stacks up

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Stars——0
Language—CSSPython
Last pushed2020-06-232022-10-03—
MaintenanceDormantDormant—
Setup difficultymoderateeasymoderate
Complexity3/52/54/5
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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 1h+

Requires building with Gradle and configuring it into an existing Spinnaker installation via YAML.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to build and install this plugin into my Spinnaker plugin folder.
Prompt 2
Help me configure this plugin in YAML to export metrics to Prometheus.
Prompt 3
Explain how to add custom tags like environment or customer name to my Spinnaker metrics.
Prompt 4
Walk me through connecting this plugin's output to a New Relic dashboard.

Frequently asked questions

wtf is armory-observability-plugin?

A Spinnaker plugin that exports deployment metrics to monitoring tools like Prometheus and New Relic, with custom tags for filtering dashboards.

Is armory-observability-plugin actively maintained?

Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2020-06-23).

How hard is armory-observability-plugin to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 1h+ to a first successful run.

Who is armory-observability-plugin for?

Mainly ops devops.

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