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Instrumenting Keycloak SPI to catch silent JDBC bugs without code review

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer found a Keycloak SPI provider making duplicate JDBC calls per user lookup, doubling database load silently. To catch such issues automatically, they added Sentry tracing to log each query as a child span and capture SQL exceptions. The fix prevents future performance bugs from going unnoticed until a code review.

Meridian48 take
This is a practical example of observability in custom enterprise software, but the approach is niche and unlikely to impact most developers.
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