How can SpringBoot achieve monitoring and managing endpoints with Actuator?

12 months ago

Benjamin Taylor

1 minute

Spring Boot Actuator is a module provided by Spring Boot for monitoring and managing applications. With Actuator, you can view information such as the health, performance, and memory usage of the application.

To enable monitoring and managing endpoints for Actuator, the first step is to add Actuator dependency in the Spring Boot project.

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

Next, enable the Actuator endpoints in the application’s configuration file.

management.endpoints.web.exposure.include=*

This will activate all Actuator endpoints. If you only need to activate specific endpoints, you can specify them, for example:

management.endpoints.web.exposure.include=health,info

After configuration is complete, you can access Actuator endpoints by visiting the /actuator path, such as /actuator/health, /actuator/info, and others.

Apart from accessing Actuator endpoints via HTTP requests, applications can also be managed and monitored through JMX, SSH, and other methods.

With Actuator, it is easy to monitor and manage the performance of applications, helping developers to quickly identify and address issues.