- Spring Boot Actuator provides endpoints to monitor and control Spring Boot applications. The metrics endpoint exposes application metrics.
- Micrometer is a vendor-neutral facade for instrumentation that Spring Boot Actuator is now based on. It allows collecting metrics using different registries like Prometheus.
- A demo showed collecting JVM memory metrics using Micrometer tags and exposing metrics to the Prometheus endpoint for collection. While Spring Boot dependencies simplify monitoring, they do not replace existing monitoring agents entirely.