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.

How can you view the health status of a Spring Boot application using Actuator?

What are the potential performance impacts of enabling extensive monitoring in production?

What information can be obtained from the HTTP Trace feature in Spring Boot Actuator?