Hypermedia

The purpose of this endpoint is to list the available management endpoints configured in your application. It returns their IDs and the links to them in JSON format.

Configure Settings

The following table describes the configuration settings that you can apply to the endpoint. Each key must be prefixed with Management:Endpoints:Actuator:. Note this key differs from the convention used by other actuators.

Key	Description	Default
Enabled	Whether the endpoint is enabled	true
ID	The unique ID of the endpoint	""
Path	The relative path at which the endpoint is exposed	same as ID
RequiredPermissions	Permissions required to access the endpoint when running on Cloud Foundry	Restricted
AllowedVerbs	An array of HTTP verbs at which the endpoint is exposed	GET

Note

This endpoint is exposed automatically because its ID is empty. To reference this actuator in exposure settings, start by configuring a non-empty ID. Because the Path is the same as ID unless otherwise specified, set it to empty explicitly:

{
  "Management": {
    "Endpoints": {
      "Actuator": {
        "Id": "hypermedia",
        "Path": "",
        "Exposure": {
          "Exclude": [ "hypermedia" ]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Enable HTTP Access

The URL path to the endpoint is computed by combining the global Management:Endpoints:Path setting with the Path setting described in the preceding section. The default path is /actuator.

Important

When running on Cloud Foundry, the Cloud Foundry Actuator should be used instead. Its default path is /cloudfoundryapplication.

See the Exposing Endpoints and HTTP Access sections for the steps required to enable HTTP access to endpoints in an ASP.NET Core application.

To add the actuator to the service container and map its route, use the AddHypermediaActuator extension method.

Add the following code to Program.cs to use the actuator endpoint:

using Steeltoe.Management.Endpoint.Actuators.Hypermedia;

var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
builder.Services.AddHypermediaActuator();

Tip

It is recommended that you use AddAllActuators() instead of adding individual actuators; this enables individually turning them on/off at runtime via configuration.

Sample Output

This endpoint returns a list of management endpoints, including itself.

The response is always returned as JSON:

{
  "type": "steeltoe",
  "_links": {
    "info": {
      "href": "https://localhost:7105/actuator/info",
      "templated": false
    },
    "health": {
      "href": "https://localhost:7105/actuator/health",
      "templated": false
    },
    "self": {
      "href": "https://localhost:7105/actuator",
      "templated": false
    }
  }
}