What is Spring Actuator...?
Spring Actuator
An actuator is an additional feature of Spring that helps you to monitor and manage your application when you push it to production.
Advantages
These actuators include auditing, health, CPU usage, HTTP hits, and metric gathering, and many more that are automatically applied to your application.
To enable Actuator in Spring boot application
To enable the spring actuator feature, we need to add the dependency of “spring-boot-starter-actuator” in pom.xml.
<dependency>
<groupId> org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId> spring-boot-starter-actuator </artifactId>
</dependency>
What are the actuator-provided endpoints used for monitoring the Spring boot application?
Actuators provide below pre-defined endpoints to monitor our application -
- Health
- Info
- Beans
- Mappings
- Configprops
- Httptrace
- Heapdump
- Threaddump
- Shutdown
