Utilities for collecting metrics in a Rails Application

This gem provides utilities for collecting and reporting metrics in a Rails Application. This gem uses metriks.

The first category of utilities is Reporters.

Reporters

Reporters are available for OpenTSDB, SignalFX and AWS Cloudwatch. The design is heavily inspired by Librato Reporter

OpenTSDBReporter

  reporter = Metriks::OpenTSDBReporter.new(host, tags, options)
  reporter.start

1. host: hostname of OpenTSDB
2. tags: A hash of tags that should be associated with every metric.
3. options: A hash to control behavior of the reporter. Valid options are:

SignalFXReporter

  reporter = Metriks::SignalFXReporter.new(token, tags, options = {})
  reporter.start

1. token: Token provided by SignalFX
2. tags: A hash of tags that should be associated with every metric.

CloudWatchReporter

  reporter = Metriks::CloudWatchReporter.new((access_key, secret_key, namespace, tags, options = {}))
  reporter.start

1. access_key: Access Key provided by AWS
2. secret_key: Secret Key provided by AWS
3. namespace: AWS CloudWatch namespace of the metric
4. tags: A hash of tags that should be associated with every metric.

Options

All reporters accept a hash of options. Options are used to control the behavior of the reporter.

Option	Description (Default)
prefix	Add a prefix to the metric name ()
batch_size	Number of metrics to report in a API call (50)
logger	Logger for debug and info messages (nil)
registry	Metriks::Registry to use. (Metriks::Registry.default)
interval	Interval between two runs (60 secs)