Spring Boot API Documentation with Swagger (OpenAPI) & Monitoring with Actuators (Full Tutorial)

🚀 Take your Spring Boot applications to the next level with essential tools for API documentation and monitoring! This in-depth tutorial will guide you through integrating Swagger (OpenAPI) for beautiful, interactive API documentation and configuring Spring Boot Actuators for powerful, real-time insights into your application's health and performance.

Whether you're a developer needing to document your REST APIs effectively or an operations team looking for robust monitoring solutions, this video has you covered. We'll go step-by-step from dependency setup to exploring the full capabilities of both Swagger UI and various Actuator endpoints.

Timestamps are included for easy navigation through the video!

👇 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN 👇

The importance of API documentation and application monitoring.
How to add the necessary dependencies for Swagger/OpenAPI to your pom.xml.
Setting up and configuring Swagger UI for your Spring Boot REST API.
Customizing API information, descriptions, and adding annotations for clearer documentation.
Understanding and adding Spring Boot Actuator dependencies.
Exploring core Actuator endpoints: /health, /info, /metrics, /env, /beans, /loggers.
Configuring and exposing specific Actuator endpoints via application.properties/application.yml.
Basic security considerations for Actuator endpoints.
How to use Swagger UI to test your documented API endpoints.