16.4 Summary

• The Spring Boot Admin server consumes the Actuator endpoints from one or more Spring Boot applications and presents the data in a user-friendly web application.
• Spring Boot applications can either register themselves as clients to the Admin server or the Admin server can discover them through Eureka.
• Unlike the Actuator endpoints that capture a snapshot of an application’s state, the Admin server is able to display a live view into the inner workings of an application.
• AThe Admin server makes it easy to filter Actuator results and, in some cases, display data visually in a graph.
• Because it’s a Spring Boot application, the Admin server can be secured by any means available through Spring Security.