anchor.diff:  == 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.
  +  your own. For example the `status` endpoint provides basic application health
  +  information. Run up a basic application and look at `/status`.
  +* **Metrics** Spring Boot Actuator provides dimensional metrics by integrating with
  +  https://micrometer.io[Micrometer].
   * **Audit** Spring Boot Actuator has a flexible audit framework that will publish events
     to an `AuditEventRepository`. 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`).
  +  implement a lock-out policy based on authentication failures.
positive.code: 
  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`'. To add the actuator to a Maven based
  project, add the following '`Starter`' dependency:
  
  [source,xml,indent=0]
  ----
  
negative.code: 	</dependencies>
  ----
  
  For Gradle, use the following declaration:
  
  [indent=0]
  ----
  