Spring boot actuator provides some endpoints like health, metrics, info. It also allows us to write our own custom endpoints.
I have a requirement where I need to expose some Dropwizard metrics stats as an endpoint. Latest Spring-boot does support dropwizard metrics but it does not fit into my requirement, so I am planning to have my own web endpoint /stats
But now I am not able to decide whether it should be a normal Controller or a custom actuator Endpoint. What's the difference between these two terms?
PS: question does seem opinion base, but the answer should be simple enough.