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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-based details, and this is where Actuator comes into the picture. We need to start with understanding what Actuator is and what its uses are. Actuator itself provides insights into your running applications. It provides configuration settings, usually exposed through JMX, but 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 the microservices-based architecture styles. The Health endpoint is probably the most common. It's used in all instances, including Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry, ECS. The list goes on and on. It provides very simple up/down status of your application, but there's more because it also allows you to have up and down status of the…

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