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Mastering Spring Boot Actuator: All Parameters, Use Cases & How to Build Custom Actuators & Interview Questions
Overview: Spring Boot Actuator is a powerful tool that provides a set of built-in features to help monitor and manage Spring Boot applications in production. With minimal configuration, it exposes key operational information about your application, such as health status, metrics, environment details, and more.
What is Spring Boot Actuator, and why is it used?
- Spring Boot Actuator is a tool that provides built-in endpoints to monitor and manage Spring Boot applications. It helps track health, metrics, and operational information in production environments.
How do you enable Actuator in a Spring Boot application?
- Add the
spring-boot-starter-actuator
dependency to your project’spom.xml
file and expose the desired endpoints in theapplication.properties
file using themanagement.endpoints.web.exposure.include
property.
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