The purpose of this project is to provide a model of Dropwizard Metrics
as a family of Scala case classes a facility for decoding JSON representation
of those, generated by metrics-json module
and another facility for encoding their contents into InfluxDB line protocol
Many thanks to Alec Zorab and Miles Sabin for answering my questions on gitter!
In Dropwizard Metrics, the most general metric type, Gauge is parametric in
the type of it's value. This means that JSON representation of it provided by
metrics-json may contain arbitrary JSON data. Since the intended target of
the data is InfluxDB, only a limited set of gauge data types is sensible. At
this point, JSON parser supports only numeric (arbitrary precision) gauges,
and gauges that contain (possibly empty) list of strings. This second type
is used by metrics-jvm module to report thread deadlocks.