Spring Boot Admin

What is Spring Boot Admin?

Spring Boot Admin is a Angular based application, developed on top of the Spring Actuator Endpoints. It allow us to monitor and manage the Spring Boot applications.

How to setup Spring Boot Admin

1.  Create the simple spring boot project with https://start.spring.io/
2.  Add Spring Boot Admin Server and UI depedencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>de.codecentric</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-admin-server</artifactId>
    <version>1.5.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>de.codecentric</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-admin-server-ui</artifactId>
    <version>1.5.7</version>
</dependency>

3.  Add @EnableAdminServer in the Spring Boot Configuration

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@EnableAdminServer
public class SpringBootAdminApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

4. Add Spring Boot Admin client dependency in the client application (the application which we need to monitor)

<dependency>
    <groupId>de.codecentric</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-admin-starter-client</artifactId>
    <version>1.5.7</version>
</dependency>

5. Tell the client where to find the Spring Boot Admin Server , It can be done in two ways
1. Static Configuration (add the below entry in application.properties)

spring.boot.admin.url=http://localhost:1111

2. Discovery Client (Eureka) (not covered in this post)

Sample Spring Boot Admin Project

The simple spring boot admin project can be available in github

Note: As of now the Spring Boot Admin is not compatible with Spring Boot 2