Go AI-Native with Spring Boot: The Secret to Skyrocketing Engineering Velocity

Axelix is the AI-Native, OSS solution for debugging, observing and operating mission-critical Spring Boot microservices. Every capability is exposed twice — to human engineers through the web, and to AI agents through an embedded MCP server.

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Built for

Production

not only sandbox envs

Exposed to

Humans & agents

same RBAC, same audit

Install

Fast setup

docker · helm · Jar

Transactions · SQL timelines · Connection pools · Beans · Conditions · Configuration properties · Environment · Loggers · Thread dumps · Garbage collector · Caches · Scheduled tasks · MCP server

Transactions · SQL timelines · Connection pools · Beans · Conditions · Configuration properties · Environment · Loggers · Thread dumps · Garbage collector · Caches · Scheduled tasks · MCP server

An ordinary Tuesday

At 03:14 AM your dashboard sees the fire.
You're the only one with a hose.

incident orders-apiP1 customer-facingtue 02:14 03:38

02:14

Grafana fires: p99 on `/checkout` jumps 8.

02:21

On-call opens six tabs. None of them show why.

blocked by: dashboards watch, they don't ask

02:34

Needs `org.hibernate.SQL` at `TRACE` to see the slow query.

blocked by: redeploy required

02:47

Wants a thread dump while the lock is still held.

blocked by: actuator port not exposed

03:02

SSH into the pod. Flips a logger by hand. Nothing audits it.

blocked by: no surface, no trail

03:24

Logs finally land. A connection pool is exhausted by a retry storm.

03:38

Incident closed. Customers already saw it.

root cause found 84 minutes after the alert

Every other tool was built to watch production. Axelix was built to operate it from a browser, or from an AI agent, with the same auth, the same audit trail.

Capabilities

Verbs for the JVM — same surface for people and agents.

Every capability is exposed twice. Engineers reach it through a web console; AI agents reach the same actions through an embedded MCP server. A single role model gates both — each identity, human or agent, sees only the data and actions its role permits.

Transactional inspection

Live transactions, durations, the SQL timeline of each one — the verbs your APM forgot.

Configuration properties

Effective values for every @Value and bound prefix — and where they actually came from.

datasource.urlvault

Loggers

Flip log levels per package, live — no redeploy, no SSH, fully audited.

org.hibernate.SQLtrace

com.acme.svcdebug

Beans & conditions

The live bean graph plus the @Conditionalverdicts — why each bean is here, or isn't.

Environment

Every env source the JVM sees, ranked by precedence — with selective masking.

Caches

Cache managers, hit/miss rates, evict and clear — from a button or a tool call.

Thread dump

Threads, states, locks and contention — on demand, no kill-switch required.

Garbage collector

Live GC events, pause times and tuning signals — not just a chart, a feed.

Scheduled tasks

Inspect cron and fixed-delay tasks; toggle, force-run, or rewrite expressions live.

Conditions

Auto-configuration matched and not-matched, with the reason for every verdict.

Instance details

Service metadata, build info, runtime version — the boring stuff you need at 3 AM.

Diagnostic export

One-click bundle of dumps, beans, configs and conditions — for incidents and audits.

More verbs → capability matrix

Install

Three commands. No agent, no JVM flags, no redeploys.

Pick how you run things — Docker, Compose, or Kubernetes. Spin up the master, drop the starter into your app, point it at the master. The service shows up in the console and on the MCP server within seconds.

Shell

# Run the docker image (optionally pulls an image)docker run \    --publish 8080:8080 \    -e AXELIX_MASTER_AUTH_JWT_ALGORITHM=HMAC256 \    -e AXELIX_MASTER_AUTH_JWT_SIGNING_KEY=8DrZJSOJ8vkbxdjUB3sSsyeiG4Xidf1sDNmJq1Slkkn \    --name axelix \    --detach \    ghcr.io/axelixlabs/axelix:v1.0.0-m1

Step 1 of 3

Spring Boot 2 · 3 · 4JVM 11 — 25Docker · Helm

Enterprise · early access

Open core stays open. Enterprise lives on top.

Axelix Enterprise extends the open core with the controls, integrations and support platform, security and compliance teams ask for — without forking the surface engineers already learned. The OSS keeps shipping, in the open. Enterprise is what you reach for when one cluster becomes ten and audit asks who changed what at 3 AM.

Tier 3 · Support

Dedicated support & SLA

24/7 · named engineer · priority CVE

contract

Tier 2 · Extensions

Enterprise extensions

SSO · RBAC · audit · multi-cluster · on-prem

licensed

Tier 1 · Foundation

Axelix OSS

LGPL-3.0 · forever free · the same console

always open

Same surface · same MCP · one product

SSO & identity

SAML / OIDC, SCIM provisioning, group → role mapping. Plug into your existing IdP.

Granular RBAC

Per-action policies, per-service scopes, per-environment guards. One model for humans and agents.

Compliance & audit

Immutable audit log, SOC 2 / ISO 27001 evidence pack, BYO-S3 export, retention policies.

Multi-cluster fleet

Federated masters across regions, single pane of glass, region-aware routing.

On-prem & air-gapped

Offline install bundle, no telemetry, BYO container registry. For everything that can't leave the network.

Dedicated support

Named engineer, SLA, priority CVE patches, roadmap input. A vendor at the end of an email.

Early access · Q3 2026

Want a seat in the first pilots?

We're picking a handful of teams to shape what ships first. Tell us about your fleet — we'll be in touch within a working day.

enterprise@axelix.io →

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Everything you'd ask before pointing answer console at your fleet — license, safety, platform support, and what's next.

The open-source console for debugging, observing and operating Spring Boot microservices in production. Every capability is exposed twice — to engineers through a web console, and to AI agents through an embedded MCP server. A single role model gates both.
Spring Boot 2, 3 and 4 — through dedicated starter artifacts (axelix-spring-boot-2-starter, -3-starter, -4-starter). The master runs on JVM 11–25. No JVM agent, no flags, no custom boot order.
Yes. Axelix OSS is licensed under LGPL-3.0— link it into your production apps, fork it, ship your own changes. We're building Axelix Enterprise on top (extensions and paid support for teams that want them), but the open core stays open.
It's designed for production. The master speaks to your services over an authenticated channel; a single role model gates both human engineers and AI agents — each identity sees only the data and actions its role permits. Destructive operations are explicit and confirmable.
Actuator exposes the data; Axelix exposes the verbs.We build on the actuator endpoints your apps already have, then add what actuator doesn't: a unified fleet console, an MCP server, runtime mutation under a role model, transactional inspection with SQL timelines, and a clear story for AI agents.
We're building something bigger. Stay tuned.

Still curious?

Reach the team — we reply within answer working day.

Architectural questions, production-readiness checks, enterprise pilots. Anything not answered above is the kind of thing we like answering directly.

hello@axelix.io →