45. Enabling production-ready features
The spring-boot-actuator
module provides all of Spring Boot’s production-ready features. The simplest way to enable the features is to add a dependency to the spring-boot-starter-actuator
‘Starter’.
Definition of Actuator
An actuator is a manufacturing term, referring to a mechanical device for moving or controlling something. Actuators can generate a large amount of motion from a small change.
To add the actuator to a Maven based project, add the following ‘Starter’ dependency:
<dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId> </dependency> </dependencies>
For Gradle, use the declaration:
dependencies { compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator") }