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Using Spring Actuator

Using Spring Actuator

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Using Spring Actuator

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- [Instructor] Operational needs are critical to maintaining system health as well as responding to incidents when they occur. Each application needs to provide details of its up status as well as other metrics details, and this is where Actuator comes into the picture. We need to start with understanding what Actuator is and what uses of it are. Actuator itself provides insights into your running applications. It provides configuration settings usually exposed through JMX for Java applications. But they can also be exposed through the web. Actuator allows you to monitor your running application which in production is extremely important, especially in dealing with a microservices architecture where you have multiple components that could be running at once. Now, one of the main endpoints that you get with Actuator is the health endpoint. It's a simple up/down status of the application itself. It also could have an up/down…

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