It used to be possible to use Wavefront observability without signing up:
from https://docs.wavefront.com/wavefront_springboot.html:
Freemium All users can run the Spring Boot Starter with the default settings to view their data in the Wavefront Freemium instance. Certain limitations apply, for example, alerts are not available, but you don’t have to sign up.
After upgrading to Spring Boot 3.0 (from 2.5 so not sure when exactly was the change introduced) I am getting the error message:
Property management.wavefront.api-token with value 'null' is invalid: This property is mandatory whenever publishing directly to the Wavefront API
Not sure if this has been overlooked or it is a planned change but it effectively makes the official docs (https://docs.wavefront.com/wavefront_springboot.html) misleading.
Comment From: mhalbritter
Hey,
the starter which is mentioned in the documentation is this one: https://github.com/wavefrontHQ/wavefront-spring-boot
Unfortunately it has no support for Spring Boot 3. The freemium automatic provision is a feature of this starter which we decided not to replicate in Spring Boot. I'll take a look if there's a workaround.
Comment From: mhalbritter
Maybe more people will walk into this problem, so I've created a small application which does the provisioning part for you. Feel free to use it to provision a freemium account. The properties which are printed by the application are usable with a Spring Boot 3 application.
https://github.com/mhalbritter/wavefront-account-provisioner