Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Step 23 – Monitoring APIs with Spring Boot Actuator

The video tutorial discusses the importance of monitoring services, especially in microservices architectures, and introduces Spring Boot Actuator as a tool to facilitate this. It covers the configuration of Actuator, exploring its endpoints, and advanced features like metrics and HTTP Trace. The tutorial emphasizes the need for careful configuration to avoid performance impacts and provides a comprehensive overview of Actuator's capabilities.

Why is monitoring crucial in microservices architecture?

• To quickly identify and resolve service failures.

• To ensure all services are documented.

• To reduce the number of microservices.

• To increase the number of APIs.

What is the primary function of the Spring Boot Actuator?

• To provide a user interface for applications.

• To offer monitoring facilities for services.

• To manage database connections.

• To enhance application security.

What does HAL stand for in the context of Spring Boot?

• Hypertext Application Language

• High-level Application Logic

• Hyperlink Access Language

• Hardware Abstraction Layer

Which URL is used to access the Spring Boot Actuator after version 2.0.0?

• localhost:8080/actuator

• localhost:8080/application

• localhost:8080/service

• localhost:8080/api

What is the purpose of the 'management.endpoint.web.exposure.include' property?

• To disable all management endpoints.

• To expose all management endpoints over HTTP.

• To log all management endpoints.

• To secure all management endpoints.

Which feature of the Spring Boot Actuator provides information about security audit events?

• Beans

• Conditions

• Mappings

• Audit Events

Why should HTTP Trace not be enabled in production?

• It can cause performance issues.

• It provides insufficient data.

• It requires additional hardware.

• It is not supported in production.