Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How to do it...

If you look carefully at the URL of our shiny new dashboard, you will see that it actually says http://localhost:3030/sample and displays a sample dashboard that was automatically generated. We will use this sample dashboard to make some changes in order to display some metrics from our application directly as well as get some raw metrics from the Graphite data API endpoint.

To demonstrate how to connect the data from the application /actuator/metrics endpoint so as to display it in the Dashing dashboard, we will change the Buzzwords widget to display the counts of our data repositories, as follows:

1. Before we start, we will need to add the 'httparty', '>= 0.13.3' gem to the Gemfile file located in the bookpub_dashboard directory, ...