Adding Actuator to your application

So, you plan to develop a new RESTful API to complete your football-related suite of services. You are concerned about the responsiveness of your application and our aim to provide a resilient service. For that reason, you are very interested in monitoring your application health properly.

Before you start to monitor your application, your application should be monitorable. For that, you have decided to start using Spring Boot Actuator.

Spring Boot Actuator comprises a set of production-ready functionalities packaged with the Spring Framework. It incorporates various built-in tools and endpoints that are designed to allow you to monitor, manage, and interact with Spring Boot applications within a production setting. Actuator simplifies the process of comprehending and resolving runtime behaviors in Spring Boot applications.

The Actuator module exposes multiple endpoints, including health, metrics, info, dump, and env, among others, offering...