Commit e232e7c8 authored by Dave Syer's avatar Dave Syer

Add warning about export of metrics being switched off

E.g. just adding Dropwizard to the classpath switches it off which
might be surprising. We need a @ExportMetricReader to do the export.
parent 57d9b58f
......@@ -1061,7 +1061,6 @@ hooked up to an `Exporter` and fed metric updates every 5 seconds (configured vi
`spring.metrics.export.delay-millis`). In addition, any `MetricReader` that you define and
mark as `@ExportMetricReader` will have its values exported by the default exporter.
The default exporter is a `MetricCopyExporter` which tries to optimize itself by not
copying values that haven't changed since it was last called (the optimization can be
switched off using a flag `spring.metrics.export.send-latest`). Note also that the
......@@ -1074,6 +1073,10 @@ values for specific `MetricWriters` can be set as
`spring.metrics.export.triggers.<name>.*` where `<name>` is a bean name (or pattern for
matching bean names).
WARNING: The automatic export of metrics is disabled if you switch off the
default `MetricRepository` (e.g. by using Dropwizard metrics). You can get back the
same functionality be declaring a bean of your own of type `MetricReader` and
declaring it to be `@ExportMetricReader`.
[[production-ready-metric-writers-export-to-redis]]
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