Monitoring Application Health with Java and Vonage Messages API

The Actuator provides a comprehensive set of features to help monitor and manage your Spring Boot application, including health check, metrics, logging, configuration, thread dump, auditing, and HTTP trace. The Vonage Messages API allows developers to send and receive messages such as SMS and MMS, as well as rich messages services like WhatsApp, Viber, and Facebook Messenger. By using the Actuator and Vonage Messages API, you can generate and send application health reports via texts when critical issues arise, providing an additional layer of alerting and notification capabilities for your Spring Boot application. The implementation involves creating a RemoteRepository class that implements the HttpTraceRepository interface, autowiring services such as MessagingService and VoiceService to handle sending messages via the Vonage API, and configuring the Actuator to expose its endpoints.