Pretty print JSON output of Spring Boot Actuator endpoints

Question

Spring Boot Actuator provides several endpoints to monitor an application as:

/metrics
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Answer 1

As per http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/howto-spring-mvc.html#howto-customize-the-jackson-objectmapper, the official way to enable pretty print with Jackson in Spring Boot (1.2.2 at least) is to set the following property:

 # Pretty-print JSON responses
 spring.jackson.serialization.indent_output=true