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+# Spring Boot Actuator: Health Check, Auditing, Metrics Gathering and Monitoring 
+
+## Tutorials 
+
+1. [Spring Boot Actuator: Health check, Auditing, Metrics gathering and Monitoring](https://www.callicoder.com/spring-boot-actuator/)
+2. [Spring Boot Actuator metrics monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana](https://www.callicoder.com/spring-boot-actuator-metrics-monitoring-dashboard-prometheus-grafana/)
+
+## Steps to Setup
+
+**1. Clone the application**
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/callicoder/spring-boot-actuator-demo.git
+```
+
+**2. Build and run the app using maven**
+
+```bash
+mvn package
+java -jar target/actuator-demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
+```
+
+Alternatively, you can run the app directly without packaging like this -
+
+```bash
+mvn spring-boot:run
+```
+
+The app will start running at <http://localhost:8080>.
+
+## Explore Actuator Endpoints
+
+All the actuator endpoints will be available at <http://localhost:8080/actuator>.
+
+Some of the actuator endpoints are protected with Spring Security's HTTP Basic Authentication. You can use the username `actuator` and password `actuator` for http basic authentication.