Spring Boot actuators for microservices instrumentation
The previous sections explored most of the Spring Boot features required for developing a microservices. In this section, we will explore some of the production-ready operational aspects of Spring Boot.
Spring Boot actuators provide an excellent out-of-the-box mechanism for monitoring and managing Spring Boot microservices in production.
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The full source code of this example is available as the chapter3.bootactuator project in the code files of this book under the following Git repository:https://github.com/rajeshrv/Spring5Microservice
Create another Spring starter project, and name it as chapter3.bootactuator.application; this time, select the Web, HAL browser, hateoas, and Actuator dependencies. Similar to chapter3.bootrest , add a GreeterController endpoint with the greet method. Add management.security.enabled=falseto the application.properties file to grant access to all endpoints.
Do the following to execute the application:
- Start...
