Spring Boot Actuator – taking Application's Insights

Have you ever thought to look at what's going on with your Spring application in production? How many objects have been created? How much free or used memory is left? Let's consider, if any framework can allow you to watch all these insights, you can manage your application very well during production by using HTTP endpoints or with JMX. You can find out how your application is behaving and check on its health.

Here, I am going to explain a key component of Spring Boot, Actuator. The Spring Boot Actuator allows you to monitor production-ready features, such as metrics and the health of the Spring application.

Spring Boot Actuator is a sub-project of Spring Boot, with a lot more functionalities ...

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