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M. DeinumSpring Boot 3 Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0113-6_9

9. Spring Boot Actuator

Marten Deinum1  
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Meppel, Drenthe, The Netherlands
 

When developing an application, you want to be able to monitor the behavior of the application once it’s launched. Spring Boot makes it easy to enable this by introducing Spring Boot Actuator. Spring Boot Actuator exposes the health status and metrics from the application to interested parties. This can be over JMX or HTTP, or data can be exported to an external system.

The health endpoints tell something about the health of your application and/or the system it is running on. They will detect if the database ...

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