README.md

maven-java-monitoring-example

Repository to show monitoring of Spring Boot Actuator Health Check, Metrics Gathering

Pre-Reqs:

• Maven (Tested on 3.8.5 using openjdk-17)
• Java 17

Steps To Run:

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/kahootali/maven-java-monitoring-example.git
cd maven-java-monitoring-example/

2. Build and run the app using maven

mvn package  # it will create a target folder with the packaged jar
java -jar target/actuator-demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

Alternatively, you can run the app directly without packaging using maven directly.

mvn spring-boot:run

The app will start running at http://localhost:8080.

Explore Actuator Endpoints

All the actuator endpoints will be available at

• Can see all endpoints: http://localhost:8080/actuator
• Health: http://localhost:8080/actuator/health
• Prometheus: http://localhost:8080/actuator/prometheus
• Authenticated endpoint

Some of the endpoints like http://localhost:8080/slowApi/ are protected with Spring Security's HTTP Basic Authentication. You can use the username actuator and password actuator for http basic authentication.