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Accessing Additional Actuator Endpoints

Explore how to enable additional Spring Boot actuator endpoints beyond the default health and info endpoints. Understand the security implications of exposing actuator endpoints on the web and learn the best practice of explicitly listing endpoints to minimize risks while monitoring and managing applications.

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Enabling other endpoints

Until now, we’ve only seen the default actuator endpoints, health and info, exposed to the web. Spring Boot actually has many other endpoints, but they’re disabled from web access by default.

Actuator endpoints offered by Java Management Extensions (JMX) are enabled ...