Spring Boot 2 - Actuator Metrics Endpoint not working

Question

In my Spring Boot App (2.0.0.M7) application.properties I set

management.endpoint.metrics.enabled=true

However, when i hit

Answer 1

Had the same issue upgrading from Spring Boot 1.5.15 to 2.1.4

Needed to modify the original dependency for the Spring Boot actuator in my pom.xml from:

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-actuator

to:

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-starter-actuator

notice the addition of the word starter in the artifactId.