The Actuator with Spring Boot 2.X

The new version of Spring Boot Actuator—2.x Actuator, has been introduced with a simplified model, extended capabilities, and better incorporated defaults. In this version, the security model is integrated with the application for simplification. Some more HTTP requests and responses, and Java APIs, have also been added. The newest version also supports CRUD against the model of read-write it had before.

Actuator 2.x defines the extensible model, which is also pluggable and does not depend on MVC. Hence, you can utilize MVC and Web Flux. In the new version, endpoints also come disabled by default. Should you want to turn them all on, you can use the following:

management.endpoints.web.expose = *. 

Or if you ...

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