Spring Boot Admin - How to show app version (build-info) in wallboard? - spring-boot

Question

I see on the web some images refferred to Spring Boot Admin showing the app version in the wallboard page.
I'm using latest version of SBA, currently 2.1.6 and i can't see the versions in the wallboard.
I see something like this.
Reading the documentation it seems that a maven plugin is needed:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>build-info</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
I added it in the pom.xml of a micro-service and I restarted all docker swarms stacks (including SBA) but no changes.
I did some search but I can't find any reference.

Answer 1

The 'spring-boot-maven-plugin' is required to generate the build-info in
/target/classes/META-INF/build-info.properties
Spring Boot Admin picks up the build info including the application version from this file. Please check if this file is generated.
You need to execute the maven plugin first or just run
mvn clean install

Answer 2

For Spring Boot applications
The easiest way 😄 to show the version, is to use the build-info goal from the spring-boot-maven-plugin, which generates the META-INF/build-info.properties.
1) Change/add the plugin in the pom.xml as below👇
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>build-info</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
2) Delete 🚮 your target folder and do a mvn clean install🧹
3) Restart your app and check the version is there 👏
I did so and it worked.
Src.➡Show Version in Application List
Dirty fix
If the previous solution does not work...
You can read the properties from the META-INF (in the jar) and concatenate it to the app name (here: myApp-service).
1) Do the previous step 👆 (add goal in maven plugin)
2) Add in the properties:
spring.config.import=classpath:META-INF/build-info.properties
spring.application.name=myApp-service ${build.version}
3) Check the result (image below 📸 )
Src.➡spring-boot-maven-plugin build-info.properties