Support Monitoring of HttpClient with HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactoryBuilder
Author: danielroheCreated Mar 7, 2025Updated Sep 17, 2026
Labelstype: enhancementstatus: pending-design-worktheme: observability
In Spring Boot 3.4 the HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactoryBuilder used by RestClient does not provide the capability to add monitoring to the HttpClient's connection pool using micrometers PoolingHttpClientConnectionManagerMetricsBinder. This leads to blindness for utilization of the underlying connection pool.
Source: spring-projects/spring-boot