Tritium

Tritium is a library for instrumenting applications to provide better observability at runtime. Tritium allows for instrumentation of service interfaces through a Java proxy, providing call backs to extensible invocation event handlers. Two main invocation handlers currently provided are:

Metrics - records aggregate service time and call rates using Dropwizard metrics
Logging - logs individual service times

Why Tritium?

Tritium gives us aggregate metrics for the various services exposed and consumed by a server.

invocation response times (including min, average, max, percentile distribution, request count and 1, 5, and 15 rates)
cache effectiveness (eviction count, hit count, hit ratio, load average millis, load failure count, load success count, miss count, miss ratio, request count)

These metrics can be exposed at the Dropwizard MetricsServlet and can be exported via any of the Dropwizard provided reporters.

Basic Usage

Instrumenting a service using the Tritium annotation processor

The tritium-processor annotation processor must be applied to the annotation processor scope, and tritium-annotations must be available at both build and runtime.

Example using gradle, however all modern build systems are capable of registering annotation processors:

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.palantir.tritium:tritium-annotations'
    annotationProcessor 'com.palantir.tritium:tritium-processor'
}

Apply the @Instrument annotation to an interface. If the interface is defined externally, a new interface may be defined which extends the target interface, and that interface may be annotated.

@Instrument
interface Service {
    String getGreeting();
}

This generates the InstrumentedService wrapper implementation equivalent to the legacy dynamic proxy, with less overhead.

Service interestingService = ...
Service instrumentedService =
        InstrumentedService.instrument(interestingService, environment.metrics());

Instrumenting a service interface of a dropwizard application with default metrics timers and optional trace logging.

Prefer using the annotation processor whenever possible

import com.palantir.tritium.Tritium;

Service interestingService = ...
Service instrumentedService = Tritium.instrument(Service.class,
        interestingService, environment.metrics());

Creating a metric registry with reservoirs backed by HDR Histograms.

HDR histograms are more useful if the service is long running, so the stats represents the lifetime of the server rather than using default exponential decay which can lead to some mis-interpretations of timings (especially higher percentiles and things like max dropping over time) if the consumer isn't aware of these assumptions.

Note that the Histogram collects metrics throughout the lifetime of the service.

Dropwizard 0.9+ Integration

    @Override
    public void initialize(Bootstrap<ApplicationConfiguration> bootstrap) {
        super.initialize(bootstrap);
        bootstrap.setMetricRegistry(MetricRegistries.createWithHdrHistogramReservoirs());
        ...
    }

License

This project is made available under the Apache 2.0 License.

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