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Understanding
Spring Boot Actuator 🚀
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Unlock the Power of
Spring Boot Actuator 🚀
Spring Boot Actuator offers production-
ready features to monitor and manage your
applications, helping you gain real-time
📊✨
insights.
Simplify application diagnostics:
Actuator helps you quickly identify issues by
exposing essential runtime information
🔧🚀
through its built-in endpoints.
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Key Features of
Spring Boot Actuator 🔍
Health Monitoring: /health
🩺 Get real-time insights into your application's
health status.
Metrics Collection: /metrics
📊 Monitor critical system and application-level
metrics.
Custom Endpoints:
🔧 Extend Actuator with your own endpoints to
expose relevant information.
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Must-Know
Spring Boot Actuator Endpoints 🛠️
/health
🩺 Shows the health of the application.
/metrics
📊 Provides metrics like memory, CPU, and
requests.
/env
🌐 Lists the environment properties.
/info
ℹ️ Displays custom application info.
/loggers
🛠️ Configures log levels dynamically.
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Customizing
Spring Boot Actuator 💡
Customize endpoints by enabling or disabling them
in application.properties
Expose Specific Endpoints:
To specify which Actuator endpoints should be accessible over HTTP.
management.endpoints.web.exposure.include=health, metrics, info
Exclude Specific Endpoints:
To exclude certain endpoints from being exposed, even if they are enabled.
management.endpoints.web.exposure.exclude=env, loggers
Enable the /loggers Endpoint:
To allows dynamic configuration and viewing of log levels.
management.endpoint.loggers.enabled=true
Disable the /shutdown Endpoint:
To disables the /shutdown endpoint, which can be a security risk if left enabled in production.
management.endpoint.shutdown.enabled=false
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Advanced Monitoring with
Spring Boot Actuator 🚀
Integrate Actuator with monitoring tools like
Prometheus 📈 📊
or Micrometer for real-
time metrics visualization.
Set up dashboards with Grafana 📊📉 to
keep an eye on app performance.
⏱️
Example metrics: HTTP request timings,
⚙️ system resource usage, and more!
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Applications of
Spring Boot Actuator 🔧
Microservices Monitoring: 🔗 Track health
and metrics across distributed systems.
Performance Tuning: ⚡ Monitor memory
usage and optimize resources.
Alerting Systems: 🚨 Set up automated
alerts for performance issues or app failures.
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Thank You! 🙌
I hope this post helped you learn more about Spring
Boot Actuator and how it can improve your
application monitoring.
💡 Feel free to share your suggestions and discuss
in the comments below!
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