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Sprinkle Some ELK on Your Spring Boot Logs

 

One day, I heard about the ELK stack and about its advantages, so I decided to get my hands on it. Unfortunately, I struggled to find solid documentation and supplemental content on getting started. So, I decided to write my own.

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Monitor Your App’s Health With Spring Boot Actuator

Vegetables won't keep your app healthy.


Ever wanted to see the precise HTTP traffic going through your Spring Boot API? With the Spring Boot Actuator and some code, you can! Spring Boot Actuator manages and monitors the health of your app using HTTP endpoints. It also allows you to see everything that’s happening in the background of an OpenID Connect (OIDC) flow.

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Magic With the Spring Boot Actuator

Spring Boot provides the Spring Boot actuator module for monitoring and managing your application when it is moved into production. Some of the production-ready features it provides are health monitoring of the application, auditing of the events, and gathering of metrics from the production environments.

For enabling the Spring Boot actuator, we need to add the following Spring Boot starter Maven dependency in pom.xml.