Using Spring Boot Actuator endpoint for Spring Boot application health check type on PCF

An application health check is a monitoring process that continually checks the status of a running Cloud Foundry application. When deploying an app, a developer can configure the health check type (port, process, or HTTP), a timeout for starting the application, and an endpoint (for HTTP only) for the application health check.

To use the HTTP option your manifest.yml would look like this

---
applications:
- name: pas-cf-manifest
  memory: 756M
  instances: 1
  hostname: pas-cf-manifest
  path: ./target/demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
  health-check-type: http
  health-check-http-endpoint: /health
  stack: cflinuxfs2
  timeout: 80
  env:
    JAVA_OPTS: -Djava.security.egd=file:///dev/urandom
    NAME: Apples

Using a HTTP endpoint such as "/health" is possible once you add the Spring Boot Actuator maven dependency as follows

  
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>

More Information

https://docs.run.pivotal.io/devguide/deploy-apps/healthchecks.html