Example showing how to integrate a custom statsd-reporter into Dropwizard.io. via the SPI [ReporterFactory] (https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/blob/master/dropwizard-metrics/src/main/java/io/dropwizard/metrics/ReporterFactory.java). This is the native way of plugging in new ScheduledReporter's'

As mentioned in ReporterFactory class we're going to:

• Create a class which implements ReporterFactory.
• Annotate it with @JsonTypeName and give it a unique type name.
• Add a src/main/resources/META-INF/services/io.dropwizard.metrics.ReporterFactory file with your implementation's full class name to the class path.

• add the bintray repository
• add ready talk dependency

• StatsDReporterFactory takes care of
  • building and configuring the StatsDReporter instance we'll be using along with binding it to the MetricRegistry
  • sets the name via the @JsonTypeName annotation, we named it "statsd-reporter-example"

• added src/main/resources/META-INF/services/io.dropwizard.metrics.ReporterFactory with our StatsDReporterFactory class defined as the ReporterFactory.

That's it, this can now be built and integrated into your dropwizard.io application. Check out this example to see how.

./gradlew build

./gradlew install

add as a dependency:

dependencies {
    compile('com.netuitive.statsd-reporter-example:1.0-SNAPSHOT')
}

metrics:
  frequency: 1 minute
  reporters:
      - type: statsd-reporter-example
        host: localhost
        port: 8125

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