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Microservices Deployment Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469434
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vikram Murugesan Vikram Murugesan
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

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

Creating custom metrics using Dropwizard


So far in this chapter, we've learned how to use the Spring Boot Actuator metrics. But what if your application is not Spring Boot and you still want to create metrics of your own? That is what this recipe will help you with. Not every microservice needs to be Spring Boot based. There are some microservices that could be written with other microservice frameworks. In those cases, if you would like to create your own metrics, you could use Dropwizard's Codahale library. Codahale is one of the most popular metrics libraries available for Java-based applications. In fact, Spring Boot internally uses Codahale to create some of its metrics. In this recipe, we will be using the Codahale library to create a metric for the geolocation application.

Getting ready

If you are wondering what the association between Dropwizard and Codahale is, the answer is that Codahale falls under the Dropwizard umbrella. Dropwizard is an ecosystem of libraries that can be used...

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