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  -For Gradle, use the declaration:
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  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:
  
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negative.code: == 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 `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.