All of this data is merged together into the property for the running .

    If you need to access the metadata for your application instance you can use the interface EmbeddedServerInstance, and call getMetadata() which will get a map of all of the metadata.

    The Netflix Ribbon client side load balancer can be configured to use the metadata to do zone aware client side load balancing. See

    To obtain metadata for a service via Service Discovery use the interface to resolve a LoadBalancer and obtain a reference to a service by identifier:

    Obtaining Metadata for a Service instance

    To obtain metadata for the locally running server use an for the ServiceReadyEvent:

    Obtaining Metadata for a Local Server