Enabling Spring Boot's Actuator in your application

To enable Spring Boot Actuator in your application, you will have to add Spring Boot Actuator dependency in your package manager. This is the simplest way to enable the production-ready features in your Spring application, by adding a Starter dependency, spring-boot-starter-actuator.

Let's add the Actuator to a Maven-based project as follows in your Spring Boot project:

<dependencies>
   <dependency>
         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
   </dependency>
</dependencies> 

The preceding Maven script will enable the production-ready features that are Spring Boot's Actuator. Now let's see how to enable the Actuator with a Gradle-based project.

Let's use the following declaration:

dependencies {
   compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator")
} 

The preceding "Gradle script will enable the production-ready features in your Spring application.

After enabling the production-ready features, let's see what all the endpoints are that Spring Boot's Actuator provides.