How can we secure the Spring Boot Actuator endpoints?

Securing Spring Boot Actuator endpoints is crucial to protect sensitive information and operations exposed by these endpoints from unauthorized access. Here's how we can achieve that:

1. Using Spring Security: Spring Security is a powerful authentication and authorization framework that can be integrated with Spring Boot to secure Actuator endpoints.


2. Authentication: Implement authentication mechanisms such as HTTP Basic Authentication, OAuth2, JWT, or form-based authentication to verify the identity of users accessing the endpoints.


3. Authorization: Define access control rules to restrict access …

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