codecentric/spring-boot-admin

Spring Boot Admin is a web-based dashboard that lets you monitor and manage Spring Boot applications from a single interface. Spring Boot is a popular Java framework that companies use to build backend services and APIs. When those services are running in production, developers need a way to check on their health, memory usage, log output, and configuration without digging through raw server data. This project provides that visibility through a graphical admin panel. The tool works by connecting to special diagnostic endpoints that Spring Boot applications can expose. These endpoints report things like whether the app is healthy, how much memory it is using, what its current configuration looks like, and what log messages it has recently produced. Spring Boot Admin reads from those endpoints and displays the information in a dashboard that any team member can open in a browser. The version numbering tracks Spring Boot itself: if you are running Spring Boot 3.0, you use Spring Boot Admin 3.0. The readme notes that you can also monitor older Spring Boot services with a newer admin server, so upgrading the dashboard does not require upgrading every monitored service at the same time. Monitoring Python applications is also possible through a separate companion project called Pyctuator. The project is open source under the Apache 2.0 license and is maintained by a German software consultancy called codecentric. Documentation lives at a dedicated docs site, and support is available through Stack Overflow and a Gitter chat channel. The codebase is written in Java and the project is distributed through Maven Central, the standard package repository for Java libraries.