codahale-metrics – Tarik Billa

Codahale Metrics: using @Timed metrics annotation in plain Java

June 9, 2023 by Tarik

Long story short, you cannot use @Timed without some kind of AOP (be it Spring AOP or AspectJ). A week or two ago, I also decided to add metrics to our project and chose AspectJ for this task (mostly because I used it in the past for similar purpose and because it allows for compile-time … Read more

DropWizard Metrics Meters vs Timers

February 15, 2023 by Tarik

You’re confused in part because a DW Metrics Timer IS, among other things, a DW Metrics Meter. A Meter is exclusively concerned with rates, measured in Hz (events per second). Each Meter results in 4(?) distinct metrics being published: a mean (average) rate since Metrics was started 1, 5 and 15-minute rolling mean rates You … Read more