# Will spring-boot-starter-actuator provide more information for Elatsic APM Agent?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-spring-boot-starter-actuator-provide-more-information-for-elatsic-apm-agent/302540>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** java\
**Created:** [April 16, 2022, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-spring-boot-starter-actuator-provide-more-information-for-elatsic-apm-agent/302540 "2022-04-16T08:03:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![linghengqian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/linghengqian/32/103651_2.png) [@linghengqian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/linghengqian)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-spring-boot-starter-actuator-provide-more-information-for-elatsic-apm-agent/302540/1 "2022-04-16T08:03:12Z")

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- I am a newbie to Elastic APM, so I have some doubts about javaagent, I hope some friends could answer it.
- In a traditional SpringBoot project, there is usually a dependency such as `org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator` to expose web and jmx endpoints, and at the same time, indicators can be sent to Elastic through programmatic methods.
- I want to know , if I delete the `org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator` component from the project, will Elastic Agent get the same order of magnitude data or less? And  
will the project's JVM metrics information be hidden as this dependency `org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator` is removed?

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**Author:** ![felixbarny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/felixbarny/32/27341_2.png) [@felixbarny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/felixbarny)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-spring-boot-starter-actuator-provide-more-information-for-elatsic-apm-agent/302540/2 "2022-04-20T07:10:31Z")

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Hi and thanks for your question. You won't lose any information that you see in the curated APM UI in Kibana, such as JVM metrics. However, if I remember correctly, actuator also adds some micrometer metrics. The Java agent will auto-detect micrometer and ship all metrics to Elasticsearch so that you can build custom dashboards with them. See [Metrics | APM Java Agent Reference [1.x] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/java/current/metrics.html#metrics-micrometer) for more details.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 3:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-spring-boot-starter-actuator-provide-more-information-for-elatsic-apm-agent/302540/3 "2022-05-11T03:11:26Z")

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