Beginning Spring Boot 2: Applications and Microservices with the Spring Framework

© K. Siva Prasad Reddy 2017

K. Siva Prasad Reddy, Beginning Spring Boot 2, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2931-6_14

14. Spring Boot Actuator

K. Siva Prasad Reddy¹ 

(1)Hyderabad, India

Spring Boot is an opinionated framework that autoconfigures various application components based on several criteria, like the starters you used, the properties configuration, and the active environment profile(s).

• Is there a way to know which components (which Spring beans) are automatically registered by Spring Boot?

• Is it possible to check all the configuration parameters applied for the current running application?

• Can you determine which request URL will be handled by which controller?

• Can you get metrics on the application, such as memory usage, thread allocation, ...