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Kubernetes: liveness probe for Spring Boot with custom Actuator health check


Categories: Java, Kubernetes

A Kubernetes liveness and readiness probe is how the kubelet determines health of a pod.  This is often times as simple as checking the ability to reach the main service port over TCP or HTTP. But if you are using Spring Boot and have enabled the Actuator dependency, you have the ability to create even … Kubernetes: liveness probe for Spring Boot with custom Actuator health check

Java: adding custom health indicator to Spring Boot Actuator


Categories: Development, Java

If you have enabled Actuator in your Spring Boot application, you can add custom status metrics to the standard health check at ‘/actuator/health’. Additionally, your custom health indicator can signal an UP/DOWN status that propagates to the main level status and can then be used by an external monitoring/alerting solutions or as an indicator to … Java: adding custom health indicator to Spring Boot Actuator