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Integrating with Actuator

Spring Boot Actuator displays build-related information if a META-INF/build-info.properties file is present. The build-info goal generates such file with the coordinates of the project and the build time. It also allows you to add an arbitrary number of additional properties, as shown in the following example:

<project>
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<artifactId>build-info</artifactId>
	<build>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
				<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
				<executions>
					<execution>
						<goals>
							<goal>build-info</goal>
						</goals>
						<configuration>
							<additionalProperties>
								<encoding.source>UTF-8</encoding.source>
								<encoding.reporting>UTF-8</encoding.reporting>
								<java.version>${java.version}</java.version>
							</additionalProperties>
						</configuration>
					</execution>
				</executions>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>
</project>

This configuration will generate a build-info.properties at the expected location with three additional keys.

java.version is expected to be a regular property available in the project. It will be interpolated as you would expect.

spring-boot:build-info

org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:4.0.0-SNAPSHOT

Generate a build-info.properties file based on the content of the current MavenProject.

Optional parameters

Name Type Default

additionalProperties

Map

excludeInfoProperties

List

outputFile

File

${project.build.outputDirectory}/META-INF/build-info.properties

skip

boolean

false

time

String

${project.build.outputTimestamp}

Parameter details

additionalProperties

Additional properties to store in the build-info.properties file. Each entry is prefixed by build. in the generated build-info.properties.

Name

additionalProperties

Type

java.util.Map

Default value

User property

Since

excludeInfoProperties

Properties that should be excluded build-info.properties file. Can be used to exclude the standard group, artifact, name, version or time properties as well as items from additionalProperties.

Name

excludeInfoProperties

Type

java.util.List

Default value

User property

Since

outputFile

The location of the generated build-info.properties file.

Name

outputFile

Type

java.io.File

Default value

${project.build.outputDirectory}/META-INF/build-info.properties

User property

Since

skip

Skip the execution.

Name

skip

Type

boolean

Default value

false

User property

spring-boot.build-info.skip

Since

3.1.0

time

The value used for the build.time property in a form suitable for Instant#parse(CharSequence). Defaults to project.build.outputTimestamp or session.request.startTime if the former is not set. To disable the build.time property entirely, use 'off' or add it to excludeInfoProperties.

Name

time

Type

java.lang.String

Default value

${project.build.outputTimestamp}

User property

Since

2.2.0