This topic describes how to configure a Spring Boot app to be observed by Application Live View within Tanzu Application Platform.
For Application Live View to interact with a Spring Boot app within Tanzu Application Platform, add the spring-boot-starter-actuator module dependency.
Add the maven dependency in pom.xml as follows:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>
The Application Live View Convention then sets the runtime environment properties management.endpoints.web.exposure.include="*" and management.endpoint.health.show-details=true onto the PodSpec to expose all the actuator endpoints and detailed health information. You do not need to add these properties manually in application.properties or application.yml.
For more information, see Convention server.
The Application Live View Convention automatically exposes all the actuators of an app so that Application Live View can access all those actuator endpoints and visualize all the details about the UI. This overrides configuration settings that your app itself might contain, for example, if you configured your app to expose only specific actuators.
Read about the Application Live View Convention and the Spring Boot Convention to understand the potential impact of this, and manually configure this to suit your security needs.
