Spring Boot provides a library called actuator with features to help you monitor and manage the application when deployed to production. This out-of-the-box functionality doesn't require any setup from the developers' side. So you get auditing, health checks, and metrics-gathering all without any work.
As mentioned before, actuator uses Micrometer to instrument and capture different metrics from the code, such as:
- JVM memory usage
- Connection-pooling information
- Response time of different HTTP endpoints in the app
- Frequency of invocation of different HTTP endpoints
To enable your application to have these production-ready features, you need to add the following dependency to your pom.xml if you are using Maven (there is ...
