# Spring Boot

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/spring-boot/  
**Website:** https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot  
**APIs profiled:** 13

Spring Boot is an open source Java-based framework used to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based applications with minimal configuration. It provides auto-configuration, embedded server support, opinionated defaults, and production-ready features including health checks, metrics, and externalized configuration management.

## Kin Score — 37.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 55.0 |
| Governance | 69.7 |
| Contract Governance | 69.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 17.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (13)

- **Spring Boot REST API** — RESTful web services built with Spring Boot using Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux. Supports JSON, XML, and hypermedia responses with full content negotiation, validation, error han...
- **Spring Data REST API** — Exposes Spring Data repositories as hypermedia-driven RESTful resources automatically. Supports HAL, collection+json media types, sorting, pagination, projections, and custom ev...
- **Spring Boot Admin API** — Admin UI and monitoring tool for Spring Boot applications providing registration, health monitoring, log level management, JMX bean access, and notification capabilities for mul...
- **Spring Boot Application API** — The Application API from Spring Boot — 3 operation(s) for application.
- **Spring Boot Caches API** — The Caches API from Spring Boot — 2 operation(s) for caches.
- **Spring Boot Configuration API** — The Configuration API from Spring Boot — 1 operation(s) for configuration.
- **Spring Boot Environment API** — The Environment API from Spring Boot — 2 operation(s) for environment.
- **Spring Boot Health API** — The Health API from Spring Boot — 2 operation(s) for health.
- **Spring Boot Info API** — The Info API from Spring Boot — 1 operation(s) for info.
- **Spring Boot JVM API** — The JVM API from Spring Boot — 2 operation(s) for jvm.
- **Spring Boot Lifecycle API** — The Lifecycle API from Spring Boot — 1 operation(s) for lifecycle.
- **Spring Boot Loggers API** — The Loggers API from Spring Boot — 2 operation(s) for loggers.
- **Spring Boot Metrics API** — The Metrics API from Spring Boot — 3 operation(s) for metrics.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Spring Boot Agentic Access** — 21 operations · 4 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Spring Boot Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Spring Boot Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Spring Boot Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Auto-Configuration, Embedded Server, Framework, Java, Microservices, REST API, Spring, Web Development

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/spring-boot/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.