Spring Boot Admin is a web-based dashboard for monitoring and managing Spring Boot applications. It provides operational visibility into application health, metrics, logs, thread information, and configuration through an intuitive interface.
Spring Boot Actuator exposes rich runtime data through REST endpoints and JMX, but consuming this information directly is cumbersome. Spring Boot Admin bridges this gap by presenting actuator data through a production-ready web dashboard. The tool requires only adding a dependency to begin monitoring; applications that expose actuator endpoints are immediately visible in the dashboard without custom configuration or additional monitoring infrastructure.
Development teams can use the tool to diagnose issues during development, while operations teams monitor production deployments. It scales from single applications to hundreds of microservices. The dashboard displays real-time application health and metrics, includes a log viewer for streaming and searching logs, provides an environment inspector for browsing application properties, offers thread inspection capabilities, monitors HTTP requests and responses, and allows management of JMX beans. Multi-application support lets a single admin server monitor multiple Spring Boot applications. The tool is fully extensible, allowing customization of the UI and addition of custom views. Built-in authentication and authorization support is available for securing access.
The project maintains version alignment with Spring Boot's major and minor versions, though the admin server can monitor applications running on different Spring Boot versions independently. This allows, for example, monitoring a Spring Boot 2.7 application using a 4.1.x admin server. The project maintains a contribution guide and labels issues as ideal for contribution to encourage community involvement. Development follows the Spring Framework code style conventions and uses the Spring Java Format Plugin for consistency.
