Appendix A: Common application properties

Various properties can be specified inside your application.properties file, inside your application.yml file, or as command line switches. This appendix provides a list of common Spring Cloud Commons properties and references to the underlying classes that consume them.

Property contributions can come from additional jar files on your classpath, so you should not consider this an exhaustive list. Also, you can define your own properties.
Name Default Description

spring.cloud.compatibility-verifier.compatible-boot-versions

2.1.x

Default accepted versions for the Spring Boot dependency. You can set {@code x} for the patch version if you don’t want to specify a concrete value. Example: {@code 3.4.x}

spring.cloud.compatibility-verifier.enabled

false

Enables creation of Spring Cloud compatibility verification.

spring.cloud.config.allow-override

true

Flag to indicate that {@link #isOverrideSystemProperties() systemPropertiesOverride} can be used. Set to false to prevent users from changing the default accidentally. Default true.

spring.cloud.config.override-none

false

Flag to indicate that when {@link #setAllowOverride(boolean) allowOverride} is true, external properties should take lowest priority and should not override any existing property sources (including local config files). Default false.

spring.cloud.config.override-system-properties

true

Flag to indicate that the external properties should override system properties. Default true.

spring.cloud.discovery.client.composite-indicator.enabled

true

Enables discovery client composite health indicator.

spring.cloud.discovery.client.health-indicator.enabled

true

spring.cloud.discovery.client.health-indicator.include-description

false

spring.cloud.discovery.client.simple.instances

spring.cloud.discovery.client.simple.local.instance-id

The unique identifier or name for the service instance.

spring.cloud.discovery.client.simple.local.metadata

Metadata for the service instance. Can be used by discovery clients to modify their behaviour per instance, e.g. when load balancing.

spring.cloud.discovery.client.simple.local.service-id

The identifier or name for the service. Multiple instances might share the same service ID.

spring.cloud.discovery.client.simple.local.uri

The URI of the service instance. Will be parsed to extract the scheme, host, and port.

spring.cloud.discovery.client.simple.order

spring.cloud.discovery.enabled

true

Enables discovery client health indicators.

spring.cloud.features.enabled

true

Enables the features endpoint.

spring.cloud.httpclientfactories.apache.enabled

true

Enables creation of Apache Http Client factory beans.

spring.cloud.httpclientfactories.ok.enabled

true

Enables creation of OK Http Client factory beans.

spring.cloud.hypermedia.refresh.fixed-delay

5000

spring.cloud.hypermedia.refresh.initial-delay

10000

spring.cloud.inetutils.default-hostname

localhost

The default hostname. Used in case of errors.

spring.cloud.inetutils.default-ip-address

127.0.0.1

The default IP address. Used in case of errors.

spring.cloud.inetutils.ignored-interfaces

List of Java regular expressions for network interfaces that will be ignored.

spring.cloud.inetutils.preferred-networks

List of Java regular expressions for network addresses that will be preferred.

spring.cloud.inetutils.timeout-seconds

1

Timeout, in seconds, for calculating hostname.

spring.cloud.inetutils.use-only-site-local-interfaces

false

Whether to use only interfaces with site local addresses. See {@link InetAddress#isSiteLocalAddress()} for more details.

spring.cloud.loadbalancer.cache.caffeine.spec

The spec to use to create caches. See CaffeineSpec for more details on the spec format.

spring.cloud.loadbalancer.cache.capacity

256

Initial cache capacity expressed as int.

spring.cloud.loadbalancer.cache.ttl

30s

Time To Live - time counted from writing of the record, after which cache entries are expired, expressed as a {@link Duration}. The property {@link String} has to be in keeping with the appropriate syntax as specified in Spring Boot <code>StringToDurationConverter</code>. @see <a href= "https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/master/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/convert/StringToDurationConverter.java">StringToDurationConverter.java</a>

spring.cloud.loadbalancer.health-check.initial-delay

0

Initial delay value for the HealthCheck scheduler.

spring.cloud.loadbalancer.health-check.interval

30s

Interval for rerunning the HealthCheck scheduler.

spring.cloud.loadbalancer.health-check.path

spring.cloud.loadbalancer.retry.enabled

true

spring.cloud.loadbalancer.ribbon.enabled

true

Causes RibbonLoadBalancerClient to be used by default.

spring.cloud.refresh.enabled

true

Enables autoconfiguration for the refresh scope and associated features.

spring.cloud.refresh.extra-refreshable

true

Additional class names for beans to post process into refresh scope.

spring.cloud.service-registry.auto-registration.enabled

true

Whether service auto-registration is enabled. Defaults to true.

spring.cloud.service-registry.auto-registration.fail-fast

false

Whether startup fails if there is no AutoServiceRegistration. Defaults to false.

spring.cloud.service-registry.auto-registration.register-management

true

Whether to register the management as a service. Defaults to true.

spring.cloud.util.enabled

true

Enables creation of Spring Cloud utility beans.