Spring Boot Actuator Health Returning DOWN

Question

When I access the /health endpoint from my Spring Boot application (1.2.4.RELEASE) it is returning a status of DOWN:

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Answer 1

If the health url shows "DOWN" or HTTP 503 - Service Unavailable error, then try adding the below property in application.properties

URL - http://localhost:8080/actuator/health

management.endpoint.health.show-details=always

Now the url should show more than just DOWN. If Solr host is not reachable, then ignore the Solr check using the below exclusion -

@SpringBootApplication(exclude = { SolrAutoConfiguration.class })

Now the health should come up. The health check basically validates predefined health check internally (Example - DataSourceHealthIndicator, DiskSpaceHealthIndicator, CassandraHealthIndicator, etc).

If one of the health indicator is down, the health will be down and you can see the error as a response after adding the property mentioned above to application.properties.