Metrics Stack - Dockerized

Add metrics to your own application easily, using this dockerized stack.

This stack has:

Getting Started

Get this repo first.

Start the monitoring stack as follows

$   cd  metrics-in-docker

$   ./start.sh

Go to Grafana URL : localhost:3000

Skip the prompt to change the default password.

There is a sample project under sample-app-java directory.

Import this project in Eclipse.

Inspect file : src/main/java/com/elephantscale/metrics_demo/MyMetricsRegistry.java

Make sure the graphite hosts is 'localhost'

public final static String GRAPHITE_HOST = "localhost";

And run the class : com.elephantscale.MyMetricsDemo

You will see metrics being printed on console.

In Grafana,

You will something like this!

Enjoy 👏 !

Don't have a Java Dev environment? Don't worry, use our java-dev docker.

Start the java-dev container

$   cd  metrics-docker
$   ./start-java-dev.sh

A few things to note:

We run the container as CURRENT_USER. This makes sure that all artifacts created have proper permissions by current user.
Also we mount $HOME/.m2 directory into /var/maven/.m2 directory in container. This allows maven to reuse downloaded artifacts. This will hugely speed up compiles

This will drop you into the container.

Before running, inspect file : src/main/java/com/elephantscale/metrics_demo/MyMetricsRegistry.java

Make sure the graphite hosts is 'graphite'. This should match the conainer name for Graphite in docker-compose.yml

public final static String GRAPHITE_HOST = "graphite";

# in container, you will be in /workspace directory

$   cd sample-java-app
$   mvn clean  package

$   ./run-metrics-demo.sh

You will see metrics being printed on console.

In Grafana,

You will something like this!

Enjoy 👏 !