a appl running (main @SpringBootApplication) 2) Endpoint @RestContoller @GetMapping/@PostMapping I have 4 Microservices before I start adding Edge Servers/Config Servers/etc how do I monitor them? Spring Boot gives me simple monitoring if I add a pom.xml dependency Spring Boot include a tool to measure metrics, the Actuator you add this dependency to the project pom.xml: org.springframework.boot spring-boot-starter-actuator By default there are a couple endpoints exposed by the actuator you can see the list of endpoints via this URL: http://localhost:9091/actuator the health endpoint is enabled by default http://localhost:9091/actuator/health you can request more details via the application.properties file management.endpoint.health.show-details=always there are a number of other endpoints that can be enabled, see: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/reference/actuator/endpoints.html you can manage the actuator endpoints in the application.properties file like this: management.endpoint.beans.enabled=true <- turn on the endpoint management.endpoints.web.exposure.include=health,beans <- add it to the exposed endpoints