New Relic Dropwizard reporter

A Dropwizard metrics reporter for sending dimensional metrics to New Relic using the New Relic Java Telemetry SDK. For the juicy details on how Dropwizard metrics are mapped to New Relic dimensional metrics, please visit the exporter specs documentation repo.

How To Use

gradle

build.gradle:

compile("com.newrelic.telemetry:dropwizard-metrics-newrelic:0.3.0")
compile("com.newrelic.telemetry:telemetry-http-okhttp:0.3.3")

or if you're using kotlin build gradle...

build.gradle.kts:

implementation("com.newrelic.telemetry:dropwizard-metrics-newrelic:0.3.0")
implementation("com.newrelic.telemetry:telemetry-http-okhttp:0.3.3")

If you do not want to depend on okhttp, you can remove the dependency on telemetry-http-okhttp, but you will need to construct a MetricBatchSender instance using its builder and provide your own implementation of the com.newrelic.telemetry.http.HttpPoster interface.

MetricBatchSender sender = MetricBatchSender.builder().httpPoster(<your implementation>);

Note: to use the sample code below, you will need the telemetry-http-okhttp library mentioned above. It provides implementations communicating via HTTP using the okhttp libraries, respectively.

Start the reporter

Early in the lifecycle of your application, you will want to create and start a NewRelicReporter.

The YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY is referring to your New Relic Event API insert key. For more information and how to obtain a key, visit our docs.

MetricRegistry metricRegistry = new MetricRegistry(); // If you're already using dropwizard-metrics you may already have one of these.
...
String apiKey = "<YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY>";
MetricBatchSender metricBatchSender = SimpleMetricBatchSender.builder(apiKey).build();

Attributes commonAttributes = new Attributes()
            .put("host", InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName())
            .put("appName", "Your Application Name Here")
            .put("other", "any other common attributes you wish");
            
NewRelicReporter reporter = NewRelicReporter.build(metricRegistry, metricBatchSender)
        .commonAttributes(commonAttributes)
        .build();
        
reporter.start(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Dropwizard integration

If you are using the actual Dropwizard REST framework, you can get a reference to the MetricRegistry from the Dropwizard Environment in order to register your reporter.
It might look something like this:

public class MyApplication extends Application<MyConfig> {

...
    @Override
    public void run(MyConfig configuration, Environment environment) {
        MetricRegistry registry = environment.metrics();
        MetricBatchSender metricBatchSender = buildMetricBatchSender(); // see above for more complete example
        NewRelicReporter reporter = NewRelicReporter.build(registry, metricBatchSender)
                .commonAttributes(commonAttributes)
                .build();
        reporter.start(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        ...
    }
...
}

Building

CI builds are run on Azure Pipelines: The project uses gradle 5 for building, and the gradle wrapper is provided.

To compile, run the tests and build the jars:

$ ./gradlew build

Find and use your data

For tips on how to find and query your data, see Find metric data.

For general querying information, see:

• Query New Relic data
• Intro to NRQL