Health Checks and Metrics
Implement Spring Boot Actuator for exposing health endpoints and collecting application metrics.
What is Spring Boot Actuator?
When running microservices, monitoring their health and performance is super important. Spring Boot Actuator provides a set of production-ready features to help you do just that!
It exposes operational information about your running application, making it easier to observe and manage.
Add Actuator Dependency
To start using Actuator, you just need to add its dependency to your Spring Boot project. This is typically done in your pom.xml for Maven or build.gradle for Gradle.
Here's how to add it with Maven:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>All lessons in this course
- Centralized Logging with ELK Stack
- Health Checks and Metrics
- Alerting and Dashboarding