Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

Service info endpoint

By default, a Spring Boot actuator provides the most valuable information for system monitoring, scaling, and evolving over time. Depending on the application configuration, it exposes information about the application executable artifact (service group, artifact ID, artifact name, artifact version, build time) and Git coordinates (branch name, commit ID, commit time). Of course, we may extend this list with additional information, if required.

To expose the information collected during the build of the application, we may add the following configuration to the Gradle build file in the springBoot section: buildInfo(). Of course, the same functionality is available for Maven builds. The following article provides more ...