Spring Boot

Spring Boot is an open source Java-based framework used to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based applications with minimal configuration. It provides auto-configuration, embedded server support, opinionated defaults, and production-ready features including health checks, metrics, and externalized configuration management.

URL: https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot

Tags

Auto Configuration, Embedded Server, Framework, Java, Microservices, REST API, Spring, Web Development

APIs

Spring Boot Actuator API

Production-ready management and monitoring endpoints for Spring Boot applications. Provides health checks, metrics, environment info, configuration properties, thread dumps, heap dumps, logger configuration, cache management, and graceful shutdown.

Human URL: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/actuator.html Base URL: http://localhost:8080/actuator

Tags: Actuator, Health Check, Management, Metrics, Monitoring

Properties:

• Documentation
• OpenAPI
• JSON Schema - Health
• JSON Schema - Metric
• JSON Structure
• JSON-LD Context
• Spectral Rules
• Naftiko Capability

Spring Boot REST API

RESTful web services built with Spring Boot using Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux. Supports JSON, XML, and hypermedia responses with full content negotiation, validation, error handling, and CORS configuration.

Human URL: https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/

Tags: HTTP, JSON, REST, Web Services

Properties:

• Documentation
• Getting Started Guide
• Tutorial

Spring Data REST API

Exposes Spring Data repositories as hypermedia-driven RESTful resources automatically. Supports HAL, collection+json media types, sorting, pagination, projections, and custom event handlers.

Human URL: https://spring.io/projects/spring-data-rest

Tags: Database, HATEOAS, Repository, REST

Properties:

• Documentation
• API Guide
• Getting Started

Spring Boot Admin API

Admin UI and monitoring tool for Spring Boot applications providing registration, health monitoring, log level management, JMX bean access, and notification capabilities for multiple application instances.

Human URL: https://github.com/codecentric/spring-boot-admin

Tags: Administration, Dashboard, Management, Monitoring

Properties:

• Documentation
• GitHub Repository
• Getting Started

Artifacts

OpenAPI Specifications

Spec	Description
spring-boot-actuator-openapi.yml	Spring Boot Actuator management and monitoring endpoints

JSON Schemas

Schema	Description
spring-boot-actuator-health-schema.json	Actuator health response schema
spring-boot-actuator-metric-schema.json	Actuator metric response schema
spring-boot-application-properties.json	Application configuration properties schema

JSON Structures

Structure	Description
spring-boot-actuator-structure.json	Actuator API response structure documentation

JSON-LD Contexts

Context	Description
spring-boot-context.jsonld	Spring Boot linked data context

Examples

Example	Description
spring-boot-actuator-get-health-example.json	Get application health status
spring-boot-actuator-get-metrics-example.json	Get JVM memory usage metric
spring-boot-actuator-set-logger-example.json	Set logger level at runtime

Spectral Rules

Ruleset	Description
spring-boot-actuator-rules.yml	API design rules for Spring Boot Actuator conventions

Naftiko Capabilities

Capability	Description
capabilities/application-monitoring.yaml	Application monitoring workflow (health, metrics, logs, caches)
capabilities/shared/spring-boot-actuator.yaml	Shared Actuator API consumer definition

Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Description
spring-boot-vocabulary.yml	Spring Boot domain vocabulary and terminology

Common Properties

• Documentation
• Website
• GitHub
• GitHub Organization
• Issues
• Releases
• Stack Overflow
• Blog
• Guides
• Maven Repository
• Spring Initializr

Maintainers

Name: VMware Tanzu (Spring Team)
Email: spring-boot@vmware.com
URL: https://spring.io/team