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ARCHIVED. TO SEND MICROMETER METRICS TO NEW RELIC, FOLLOW THE DIRECTION IN THE README.md. Micrometer registry implementation that sends data to New Relic as dimensional metrics.
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Does this fully replace the New Relic java agent? #68

Closed 2ZZ closed 4 years ago

2ZZ commented 4 years ago

Hi, quick question, does this package fully replace the New Relic java agent or should they both be used in conjunction?

jkwatson commented 4 years ago

Hello, @2ZZ ! This definitely does not fully replace the New Relic agent. Micrometer only includes metrics, and no distributed-tracing spans, so you would only get micrometer metrics flowing into New Relic. You can use the two in conjunction, however.

What sort of application are you looking to monitor? [i.e. is it a backend batch process, or an http service, or whatever...]. Is it spring-boot, or are you using micrometer as a stand-alone metrics library?

Thanks for the question!

2ZZ commented 4 years ago

Hi @jkwatson, thanks for your answer It is a spring app. I found using this extension alone Micrometer was only reporting events into the collector and not metrics, It wasn't until I added the java agent that JVM metrics began to flow through as well. I wasn't sure if by adding both there would be any duplication, or possibly I could remove the java agent with some reconfiguration of Micrometer.

jkwatson commented 4 years ago

There might be some duplication if you use both. the agent is definitely more full-featured and comprehensive, however. I recommend running both together and seeing if you find value in the dimensional metrics coming out of micrometer.

jkwatson commented 4 years ago

Closing this, as the question has been answered.