Instead of using the Dropwizard URI to view the metrics of the methods that have been annotated by @Timed or @Metered on a need basis, you can also write the output to a log file.
The below changes needs to be made in the Dropwizard configuration xml file.
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:metrics="http://www.ryantenney.com/schema/metrics"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.ryantenney.com/schema/metrics
http://www.ryantenney.com/schema/metrics/metrics-3.0.xsd">
<!-- Registry should be defined in only one context XML file -->
<metrics:metric-registry id="metrics"/>
<metrics:health-check-registry id="healthCheck"/>
<!-- annotation-driven must be included in all context files -->
<metrics:annotation-driven metric-registry="metrics"
health-check-registry="healthCheck"/>
<metrics:reporter type="slf4j" metric-registry="metrics" period="15m" logger="com.abc.zyx.metrics"/> <!-- (Optional) The metrics in this example require the metrics-jvm jar-->
<metrics:register metric-registry="metrics">
<bean metrics:name="jvm.gc" class="com.codahale.metrics.jvm.GarbageCollectorMetricSet" />
<bean metrics:name="jvm.memory" class="com.codahale.metrics.jvm.MemoryUsageGaugeSet"/>
<bean metrics:name="jvm.thread-states" class="com.codahale.metrics.jvm.ThreadStatesGaugeSet"/>
<bean metrics:name="jvm.fd.usage" class="com.codahale.metrics.jvm.FileDescriptorRatioGauge"/>
</metrics:register>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.context.support.ServletContextAttributeExporter">
<property name="attributes">
<map>
<entry key="com.codahale.metrics.servlets.MetricsServlet.registry" value-ref="metrics"/>
<entry key="com.codahale.metrics.servlets.HealthCheckServlet.registry" value-ref="healthCheck"/>
</map>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
And you need to also define a logger in log4j.xml or logback.xml file
logger="com.abc.zyx.metrics"
