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Ankur Mhatre 4b6cefa60a Spring Boot 4 Actuator in production: endpoints, security, custom health indicators
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### profile: details upstream deliberately sleeping 30s per request
### demo.upstream.timeout-ms = 750, so the indicator gives up long before the stub replies
$ time curl -s http://localhost:8080/actuator/health/externalApi
{
"details": {
"error": "org.springframework.web.client.ResourceAccessException: I/O error on GET request for \"http://localhost:8080/stub/upstream/ping\": Read timed out",
"url": "http://localhost:8080/stub/upstream/ping",
"latencyMs": 753,
"timeoutMs": 750
},
"status": "DOWN"
}
wall clock: 0.84 s
The read timeout is what bounds this, not the endpoint. Remove setReadTimeout from
ExternalApiHealthIndicator and this call blocks for the full 30 seconds, holding a
Tomcat worker the whole time.