Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Step 9 – Spring Boot Actuator

The video tutorial explains how to use Spring Boot Actuator, highlighting its simplicity and the steps to add it as a dependency. It covers the various endpoints provided by the actuator, such as application info, metrics, and health, and discusses how to disable authentication for testing purposes. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of securing these endpoints in production environments and concludes with a summary of the benefits of using Spring Boot Actuator for application monitoring.

What information can you obtain from the 'metrics' endpoint of the actuator?

What steps would you take to disable authentication for actuator endpoints during development?

What does the 'health' endpoint of the actuator provide information about?