Recording HTTP Exchanges

You can enable recording of HTTP exchanges by providing a bean of type HttpExchangeRepository in your application’s configuration. For convenience, Spring Boot offers InMemoryHttpExchangeRepository, which, by default, stores the last 100 request-response exchanges. InMemoryHttpExchangeRepository is limited compared to tracing solutions, and we recommend using it only for development environments. For production environments, we recommend using a production-ready tracing or observability solution, such as Zipkin or OpenTelemetry. Alternatively, you can create your own HttpExchangeRepository.

You can use the httpexchanges endpoint to obtain information about the request-response exchanges that are stored in the HttpExchangeRepository.

Custom HTTP Exchange Recording

To customize the items that are included in each recorded exchange, use the management.httpexchanges.recording.include configuration property.

To disable recording entirely, set management.httpexchanges.recording.enabled to false.