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Admin Service

The Admin Service is a microservice built with Kotlin and Spring Boot that provides administrative functionality for managing and monitoring the entire microservices ecosystem. It offers a centralized interface for administrators to configure, monitor, and maintain the system.

Key Features

  • Service Monitoring: Tracks the health, performance, and status of all microservices.

  • Configuration Management: Provides interfaces for updating service configurations.

  • User Administration: Manages administrative users and their permissions.

  • System Metrics: Collects and displays metrics about system performance and usage.

  • Logging and Auditing: Centralizes logs and audit trails from all services.

  • Alerting: Sends notifications when issues are detected.

  • Deployment Management: Facilitates deployment and updates of services.

Administrative Dashboard

The Admin Service provides a web-based dashboard that offers:

  • Visual representation of system health and metrics

  • User-friendly interfaces for common administrative tasks

  • Access to logs and audit trails

  • Configuration management tools

  • User and permission management

Integration with Other Services

  • Communicates with all microservices for monitoring and management

  • Integrates with the Registry Service for service discovery

  • Works with the Authentication Service for admin authentication and authorization

Security

  • Strict access controls for administrative functions

  • Role-based permissions for different administrative tasks

  • Secure communication with other services

  • Audit logging of all administrative actions

Technologies

  • Kotlin

  • Spring Boot

  • Spring Boot Admin or similar monitoring tools

  • RESTful APIs

  • Docker for containerization

Last modified: 26 April 2025