Advanced Spring: Spring Boot Actuator

Learn about leveraging Spring Boot Actuator to manage the health of your APIs, then explore building a dashboard that leverages Spring Actuator to monitor an application.

Introduction

• Need to monitor the performance of your applications?
• What you should know

1. Intro to Spring Boot Actuator

• Introduction to Spring Boot Actuator
• Actuator endpoints and documentation
• Exposing and enabling endpoints
• Show details and create health endpoint groups
• Show application information with the info endpoint
• Overriding the Actuator base path

2. Creating and Securing Actuator Endpoints

• Implementing the Health Indicator interface
• Creating a custom Actuator endpoint
• How to secure Actuator endpoints with Spring Security

3. Metrics and Prometheus

• Spring Boot Actuator metrics and Prometheus
• Micrometer Prometheus registry
• Prometheus configuration
• Installing and running a Prometheus Docker image
• Take the Prometheus UI for a spin
• Adding custom metrics
• Viewing custom metrics from the Prometheus UI

4. Grafana Dashboards

• Installing and running a Grafana Docker image
• Import metrics data from Prometheus to Grafana
• Creating dashboards with Grafana

Conclusion

• Next steps