Spring Boot Admin

The Spring Boot Admin project is a tool that helps developers in production environments. The tool shows Spring Boot application metrics in an organized dashboard, and it makes it extremely easy to see application metrics and much more information.

The tool uses the data from the Spring Boot Actuator as an information source. The project is open source and has a lot of contributors and is an active project in the community as well.

Running Spring Boot Admin

It is a piece of cake to set up the application. We will need a new Spring Boot application, and to connect this new application with our service discovery implementation. Let's do it right now.

We can find the code on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Spring-5.0-By-Example/tree/master/Chapter08/admin. If you want to create a new application, go ahead; the process is similar to what we did in the previous chapters.

The project is a Spring Boot regular application, with two new dependencies:

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