Getting your application production-ready with Actuator

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Actuator is shown working end-to-end: add spring-boot-starter-actuator and spring-boot-starter-web, endpoints appear via JMX or HTTP, and by default only health is exposed; Spring Boot 3.5 hides shutdown and heap dump unless explicitly enabled. Best practices demonstrated: put the management interface on a management port on separate port, protect it with a dedicated security filter chain using EndpointRequest matchers, add custom HealthIndicator beans (demo toggles via AtomicBoolean), and use readiness/liveness mapping for Kubernetes probes.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Actuator
2. 3:21Setting up endpoints
3. 7:24Endpoint exposure and security
4. 11:17Securing the management interface
5. 18:04Customizing the health endpoint
6. 27:41Kubernetes and system probes
7. 32:30Info, environment, and data
8. 39:26Debugging beans and conditions
9. 41:10Custom endpoints and conclusion

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