Spring Boot Actuator Health Returning DOWN

Question

When I access the /health endpoint from my Spring Boot application (1.2.4.RELEASE) it is returning a status of DOWN:

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Answer 1

In your Spring properties, set endpoints.health.sensitive = false. The /health endpoint will then return the list of various health indicators and you can debug from there.

For a production environment you should enable security around the /health endpoint.

Edit

As Vincent pointed out below, you'll also need management.security.enabled = false if the health endpoint is secured, which seems to be the default in more recent versions of Spring Boot.

A common issue that I've seen with Spring Boot out of the box is that it auto-configures Solr, and without additional configuration the /health endpoint indicates that Solr is DOWN. An easy way to fix this is to disable the Solr auto configuration in your Application.java with this annotation: @SpringBootApplication(exclude={SolrAutoConfiguration.class})