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

I use jq for pretty printing JSON as well as filtering it. It's basically sed for JSON. On the mac, it can be installed with homebrew. (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)

curl http://localhost:8080/metrics | jq