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Guided: Configuring and Monitoring a Spring Boot 4 Application in the Cloud
In this hands-on lab, you will connect to a Spring Boot 4 application running on AWS and configure Spring Boot Actuator for production-grade observability. You will enable health, metrics, readiness, and liveness endpoints, configure distributed tracing with Zipkin, generate traffic, and verify that the application produces the expected observability signals. After completing this lab, you will have gained the experience required to prepare a Spring Boot 4 application for monitoring in cloud-native deployments.
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Challenge
Enable and configure Spring Boot Actuator
Enable Spring Boot Actuator through
application.propertiesso the application can describe itself:- Expose the health, metrics, and info endpoints over HTTP
- Reveal full component-level detail on the health endpoint
- Confirm endpoints stay locked down by default until you expose them
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Challenge
Configure health probes for cloud readiness
Expose health probes at the conventional paths cloud orchestrators expect:
- Surface liveness and readiness at the root
/livezand/readyzpaths - Keep the original Actuator health paths working (the new paths are additive)
- Surface liveness and readiness at the root
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Challenge
Generate traffic and verify observability signals
Turn on distributed tracing and confirm the application is emitting signals:
- Enable tracing and ship spans to the pre-installed Zipkin backend
- Generate traffic across the application's four endpoints
- Verify the results in the metrics endpoint and as multi-span traces in Zipkin
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