Spring Boot Actuator Endpoints allow us to monitor and manage our Spring Boot application. In this article, we'll take a look at what these endpoints are and how we can use them.
An Actuator Endpoint is a URL that is exposed by a Spring Boot application that can be used to monitor and manage the application. These endpoints provide information about the application, such as the health of the application, the version of the application, etc.
There are several Actuator Endpoints that are available in Spring Boot. Some of these endpoints are:
This endpoint provides information about the application. This information is configured in the application.properties
file.
This endpoint provides information about the health of the application. This information is gathered by the HealthIndicator beans that are registered in the application.
This endpoint provides information about the metrics of the application. This information is gathered by the Metrics beans that are registered in the application.
This endpoint provides information about the traces of the application. This information is gathered by the TraceRepository beans that are registered in the application.
Actuator Endpoints are not enabled by default in Spring Boot. We can enable them by adding the spring-boot-actuator
dependency to our project.
We can secure our Actuator Endpoints by adding Spring Security to our project. We can do this by adding the spring-boot-starter-security
dependency to our project.
In this article, we've looked at what Spring Boot Actuator Endpoints are and how we can use them. We've also seen how we can enable and secure these endpoints.