HAL Browser

A number of these endpoints expose a lot of data. To be able to visualize the information better, we will add an HAL Browser to our application:

    <dependency>      <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>      <artifactId>spring-data-rest-hal-browser</artifactId>    </dependency>

Spring Boot Actuator exposes REST APIs around all the data captured from the Spring Boot application and environment. The HAL Browser enables visual representation around the Spring Boot Actuator API:

When we launch ;http://localhost:8080/application ;in the browser, we can see all the URLs exposed by actuator.

Let's browse all the information exposed by actuator ...

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