When an application is deployed into production:
- We want to know immediately if some service goes down or is very slow
- We want to know immediately if any of the servers does not have sufficient free space or memory
This is called application monitoring.
Spring Boot Actuator provides a number of production-ready monitoring features.
We will add Spring Boot Actuator by adding a simple dependency:
<dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId> </dependency> </dependencies>
As soon as the actuator is added to an application, it enables a number of endpoints. When we start the application, we see a number of added new mappings. The following ...
