Spring Boot – How to log all requests and responses with exceptions in single place?

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Don’t write any Interceptors, Filters, Components, Aspects, etc., this is a very common problem and has been solved many times over.

Spring Boot has a modules called Actuator, which provides HTTP request logging out of the box. There’s an endpoint mapped to /trace (SB1.x) or /actuator/httptrace (SB2.0+) which will show you last 100 HTTP requests. You can customize it to log each request, or write to a DB.

To get the endpoints you want, you’ll need the spring-boot-starter-actuator dependency, and also to “whitelist” the endpoints you’re looking for, and possibly setup or disable security for it.

Also, where will this application run? Will you be using a PaaS? Hosting providers, Heroku for example, provide request logging as part of their service and you don’t need to do any coding whatsoever then.

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