Analyzing the Actuator's endpoints

Spring Boot's Actuator offers you several web endpoints; these let you monitor your running Spring application and you can view the internals of your application in production. It provides you a number of predefined endpoints for your Spring application, but you can also add your own custom endpoint for monitoring your application in production.

For example, the health endpoint provides basic application health information and you can also find out how beans are wired together in the Spring application context, determine what environment properties are available to your application, get a snapshot of runtime metrics, and more.

You can easily make use of your application and optimize it by invoking HTTP ...

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