How To Secure Custom Spring Boot Actuator Endpoints and Add Prometheus Metrics

A guide to better security

Kirshi Yin
Better Programming
Published in
5 min readOct 11, 2022

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The Spring Boot Actuator endpoints expose sensitive information about our app, such as Beans, measurements, etc. Therefore, it’s crucial to add security to restrict access.

Although the Actuator provides numerous endpoints out of the box, sometimes it can be…

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