Spring Quick Reference Guide: A Pocket Handbook for Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and More

© Adam L. Davis 2020

A. L. DavisSpring Quick Reference Guidehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6144-6_16

16. Spring Boot Actuator

Adam L. Davis¹ 

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Oviedo, FL, USA

 

Spring Boot Actuator is a subproject of Spring Boot that adds several production-grade services to an application such as a health endpoint and metrics.

Default Endpoints

Spring Boot Actuator helps enable common nonfunctional requirements of web services such as health check, configuration, auditing, debugging, and metrics.

By default, Actuator provides many endpoints (mapped at /actuator/* by default). They can be accessed via HTTP or JMX protocols. For example, you can check the default health check endpoint like so:

$ curl localhost:8080/actuator/health

{"status":"UP"}

Each endpoint can ...