{"id":3804,"date":"2024-03-13T07:31:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T07:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-springboot-achieve-monitoring-and-managing-endpoints-with-actuator\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:25:32","slug":"how-can-springboot-achieve-monitoring-and-managing-endpoints-with-actuator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-springboot-achieve-monitoring-and-managing-endpoints-with-actuator\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Boot Actuator Monitoring Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Boot Actuator is a module provided by Spring Boot for monitoring and managing applications. With Actuator, you can view information such as the health, performance, and memory usage of the application.<\/p>\n<p>To enable monitoring and managing endpoints for Actuator, the first step is to add Actuator dependency in the Spring Boot project.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;<span class=\"hljs-name\">dependency<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;<span class=\"hljs-name\">groupId<\/span>&gt;<\/span>org.springframework.boot<span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;\/<span class=\"hljs-name\">groupId<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;<span class=\"hljs-name\">artifactId<\/span>&gt;<\/span>spring-boot-starter-actuator<span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;\/<span class=\"hljs-name\">artifactId<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;\/<span class=\"hljs-name\">dependency<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Next, enable the Actuator endpoints in the application&#8217;s configuration file.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-attr\">management.endpoints.web.exposure.include<\/span>=<span class=\"hljs-string\">*<\/span>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This will activate all Actuator endpoints. If you only need to activate specific endpoints, you can specify them, for example:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-attr\">management.endpoints.web.exposure.include<\/span>=<span class=\"hljs-string\">health,info<\/span>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>After configuration is complete, you can access Actuator endpoints by visiting the \/actuator path, such as \/actuator\/health, \/actuator\/info, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from accessing Actuator endpoints via HTTP requests, applications can also be managed and monitored through JMX, SSH, and other methods.<\/p>\n<p>With Actuator, it is easy to monitor and manage the performance of applications, helping developers to quickly identify and address issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Boot Actuator is a module provided by Spring Boot for monitoring and managing applications. With Actuator, you can view information such as the health, performance, and memory usage of the application. 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