This guide explains how to enable Spring Boot's default metrics via Actuator, view them through the /actuator/metrics endpoint, and enrich them with Micrometer MeterBinders for JVM, cache, Hibernate, and Tomcat, including code samples and logging output.
This article presents the ten most frequently asked Spring Boot interview questions, covering annotations, package exclusion, auto‑configuration control, Actuator features, initializer usage, embedded Tomcat customization, and how to disable the default web server, providing concise answers and code examples for each.
Learn how to implement a smooth, graceful shutdown for Spring Boot applications that use an embedded Tomcat server by customizing the Tomcat connector, enabling the Actuator shutdown endpoint, and automating the process with scripts, ensuring in‑flight requests complete before the service stops.
This article introduces Spring Boot, explains its advantages over traditional Spring projects, describes JavaConfig, shows how to use DevTools for automatic reloads, outlines Actuator monitoring, and provides practical guidance on security, YAML configuration, ActiveMQ integration, and pagination with Spring Data JPA.
This article explains how to configure Spring Boot Actuator to export metrics to InfluxDB and Prometheus, covering Docker setup, Micrometer dependencies, application properties, sample controller code, test data generation, and visualisation with Grafana.
This guide walks you through upgrading a Java application to Spring Boot 2.0, covering prerequisites, adding the properties‑migrator module, Maven and Gradle build changes, key configuration updates, actuator and security adjustments, and other important migration details.
This guide explains how to integrate Spring Boot Actuator into a traditional Spring application by manually adding required Maven dependencies, importing core Actuator configuration classes, and defining beans that expose the /health and /metrics monitoring endpoints.
