Mastering Spring Boot 2.0

Enabling or disabling endpoints

By default in Spring Boot, all endpoints are enabled except /shutdown, but you can disable some of them. You can also enable the /shutdown endpoint.

In the application.properties file, it would look like this:

endpoints.shutdown.enabled=true 

In the application.yml file, it would look like this:

endpoints:
   shutdown:
         enabled: true 

Similarly, you can also disable any of the other endpoints as follows:

endpoints._endpoint-id.enabled = false

In the application.yml file, it would look like this:

endpoints:
   _endpoint-id:
         enabled: false 

Let's suppose you want to disable the /health endpoint. Then in the application.properties file, you have to set the following property:

endpoints.health.enabled=true 

In application.yml ...