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Matt Benson 2a9e6c40ed Fix logic for disabling plugins in CrshAutoConfiguration
Plugin disabling logic was broken by e009d3e4. Prior to this change,
a plugin would be disabled if it or any of the implemented interfaces
in its inheritance hierarchy were configured as being disabled. The
offending commit inverted the logic so that the plugin would be
enabled if any part of it was NOT configured as being disabled.

This commit restores the logic such that the early return happens only
in the negative case.

Previously, the tests were written as though
PluginContext#getPlugin(Class) would consider the specified class
against the runtime type of the plugin (not an unreasonable
assumption); rather this method considers the broader 'plugin type'.
This commit rewrites the test to seek by plugin type and assert the
absence of the disabled plugins.

Closes gh-5032
2016-02-24 11:56:15 +00:00
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2016-01-21 18:41:30 -08:00
2015-12-10 15:49:34 +01:00

= Spring Boot - Actuator

Spring Boot Actuator includes a number of additional features to help you monitor and
manage your application when it's pushed to production. You can choose to manage and
monitor your application using HTTP endpoints, with JMX or even by remote shell (SSH or
Telnet).  Auditing, health and metrics gathering can be automatically applied to your
application. The
http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#production-ready[user guide]
covers the features in more detail.

== Enabling the Actuator
The simplest way to enable the features is to add a dependency to the
`spring-boot-starter-actuator` "`Starter POM`". To add the actuator to a Maven based
project, add the following "`starter`" dependency:

[source,xml,indent=0]
----
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
----

For Gradle, use the declaration:

[indent=0]
----
	dependencies {
		compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator")
	}
----

== Features
* **Endpoints** Actuator endpoints allow you to monitor and interact with your
  application. Spring Boot includes a number of built-in endpoints and you can also add
  your own. For example the `health` endpoint provides basic application health
  information. Run up a basic application and look at `/health` (and see `/mappings` for
  a list of other HTTP endpoints).
* **Metrics** Spring Boot Actuator includes a metrics service with "`gauge`" and
  "`counter`" support.  A "`gauge`" records a single value; and a "`counter`" records a
  delta (an increment or decrement). Metrics for all HTTP requests are automatically
  recorded, so if you hit the `metrics` endpoint should see a sensible response.
* **Audit** Spring Boot Actuator has a flexible audit framework that will publish events
  to an `AuditService`. Once Spring Security is in play it automatically publishes
  authentication events by default. This can be very useful for reporting, and also to
  implement a lock-out policy based on authentication failures.
* **Process Monitoring** In Spring Boot Actuator you can find `ApplicationPidFileWriter`
  which creates a file containing the application PID (by default in the application
  directory with a file name of `application.pid`).