Endpoints can be customized using Spring properties. You can change if an endpoint is enabled, if it is considered sensitive and even its id.

For example, here is an application.properties that changes the sensitivity and id of the beans endpoint and also enables shutdown.

endpoints.beans.id=springbeans
endpoints.beans.sensitive=false
endpoints.shutdown.enabled=true

	Note
	The prefix "endpoints + . + name" is used to uniquely identify the endpoint that is being configured.

The default information exposed by the health endpoint is a simple “OK” message. It is often useful to perform some additional health checks, for example you might check that a database connection works, or that a remote REST endpoint is functioning.

To provide custom health information you can register a Spring bean that implements the HealthIndicator interface.

import org.springframework.boot.actuate.health.HealthIndicator;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
public class MyHealth implements HealthIndicator {

    @Override
    public Health health() {
        // perform some specific health check
        return ...
    }

}

Spring Boot provides a DataSourceHealthIndicator implementation that attempts a simple database test (reusing the validation query set on the data source, if any) as well as implementations for Redis, MongoDB and RabbitMQ.

Spring Boot adds the HealthIndicator instances automatically if beans of type DataSource, MongoTemplate, RedisConnectionFactory, RabbitTemplate are present in the ApplicationContext.

Besides implementing custom a HealthIndicator type and using out-of-box Status types, it is also possible to introduce custom Status types for different or more complex system states. In that case a custom implementation of the HealthAggregator interface needs to be provided or the default implementation has to be configured using the health.status.order configuration property.

Assuming a new Status with code FATAL is being used in one of your HealthIndicator implementations. To configure the severity or order add the following to your application properties: health.status.order: FATAL, DOWN, UNKNOWN, UP.

You can customize the data exposed by the info endpoint by setting info.* Spring properties. All Environment properties under the info key will be automatically exposed. For example, you could add the following to your application.properties:

info.app.name=MyService
info.app.description=My awesome service
info.app.version=1.0.0

If you are using Maven, you can automatically expand info properties from the Maven project using resource filtering. In your pom.xml you have (inside the <build/> element):

<resources>
    <resource>
        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
        <filtering>true</filtering>
    </resource>
</resources>

You can then refer to your Maven “project properties” via placeholders, e.g.

project.artifactId=myproject
project.name=Demo
project.version=X.X.X.X
project.description=Demo project for info endpoint
info.build.artifact=${project.artifactId}
info.build.name=${project.name}
info.build.description=${project.description}
info.build.version=${project.version}

	Note
	In the above example we used project.* to set some values to be used as fallbacks if the Maven resource filtering has not been switched on for some reason.

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>pl.project13.maven</groupId>
            <artifactId>git-commit-id-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>