Pretty print JSON output of Spring Boot Actuator endpoints

Question

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

/metrics
/b         


        

Answer 1

Instead of using curl I like to use httpie as a http command line client:

http http://localhost:8080/metrics

This would already format and syntax highlight the json response without having to pipe the output into another command. Also the command syntax is a bit more human friendly.