In essence, Actuator brings production-ready features to our application.
Monitoring our app, gathering metrics, understanding traffic, or the state of our database become trivial with this dependency.
The main benefit of this library is that we can get production-grade tools without having to actually implement these features ourselves.
Actuator is mainly used to expose operational information about the running application — health, metrics, info, dump, env, etc. It uses HTTP endpoints or JMX beans to enable us to interact with it.
jabrena
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1 year ago
What Is an Actuator?
In essence, Actuator brings production-ready features to our application.
Monitoring our app, gathering metrics, understanding traffic, or the state of our database become trivial with this dependency.
The main benefit of this library is that we can get production-grade tools without having to actually implement these features ourselves.
Actuator is mainly used to expose operational information about the running application — health, metrics, info, dump, env, etc. It uses HTTP endpoints or JMX beans to enable us to interact with it.