Spring Boot Actuator

Definition:-

Provides built-in production ready features to monitor and manage your application.

Why is it important?

Gives you the ability to monitor and manage your application.

Features:-

• Built in endpoints

• Ability to view real time metrics

• customizable

Dependencies :-

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Endpoints & Purpose

1. /health :- Shows application health information, useful for checking the status of the application, such as database connectivity, disk space and custom health checks.

2. /info :- Displays arbitrary application information, commonly used to display application version, git commit information etc.

3. /metrics :- shows 'metrics' information that allows you to understand the performance and behaviour of your running application.

4. /loggers :- Allows you to query and modify the logging level of your application loggers.

5. /beans :- Provides a complete list of all the spring beans in your application.

6. /shutdown :- Allows your application to be gracefully shutdown.

There are much more endpoints available in SpringBoot actuator , you can explore but these are some common endpoints which you should keep in your mind while working with spring boot actuator.

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