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You're reading from Microservices Deployment Cookbook Deploy and manage scalable microservices

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786469434

Length 378 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Spring

Concepts

Microservices

Author (1):

Vikram Murugesan

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Building Microservices with Java FREE CHAPTER

2. Containerizing Microservices with Docker

3. Deploying Microservices on Mesos

4. Deploying Microservices on Kubernetes

5. Service Discovery and Load Balancing Microservices

6. Monitoring Microservices

7. Building Asynchronous Streaming Systems with Kafka and Spark

8. More Clustering Frameworks - DC/OS, Docker Swarm, and YARN

Exporting Dropwizard metrics over to Graphite

In the early recipes of this chapter, we learned how to create metrics using Dropwizard's Codahale library. Later, we learned how to start Graphite using Docker and understood the basics of using the Graphite interface. In this recipe, we will be exporting the metrics we created in the geolocation application over to this Graphite instance, which will then be used by Grafana for graphing.

Getting ready

As we will be working on the geolocation application, follow these steps:

Open the STS IDE.
Navigate to the geolocation project, and get ready for the next step.
Start Graphite if you haven't done so. You can use the docker-compose-graphite.yml file that we created earlier to start Graphite.

How to do it...

The geolocation application currently exposes two metrics using the Codahale MetricRegistry: geolocationWriteRequestCount and geolocationLastWriteTime. There were two methods we used to view these metrics: using Spring's /metrics endpoint and using...