Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How to do it...

1. The first thing that we need to do is add a dependency to the Spring Boot Actuator starter in our build.gradle file with the following content:

dependencies { 
    ... 
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-    data-rest") 
    // compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-    jetty") //       Need to use Jetty instead of Tomcat 
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-     actuator") 
    compile project(':db-count-starter') 
    ... 
} 

2. Adding this dependency alone already gives us the ability to access the Spring management /actuator/* endpoints, such as /env, /info, /metrics, and /health, (though they are disabled by default, unless a management.endpoints.web.exposure.include=* property is configured in the application.properties ...