SpringBoot includes a number of additional features to help you monitor and manage your application when it’s pushed to production, with a component name SpringBoot Actuator that enables production-ready features for Spring Boot applications. You can find more information about it in the official documentation: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.0.0.M7/reference/htmlsingle/#production-ready.
The Actuator includes a number of additional features to help you monitor and manage your application when it's pushed to production. You can choose to manage and monitor your application using HTTP endpoints and with JMX. Additionally, auditing, health, and metrics gathering can be automatically applied to your application. In this section, we will learn how to use and configure it in our microservices monitoring.