Most straightforward way to collect dropwizard metrics and send them to Stackdriver within app running on GKE

[Fábio Uechi]

I have a Dropwizard based application running on GKE. I'm already collecting lots of application specific metrics using dropwizard metrics support.

I know it can report metrics via HTTP], JMX], CSV, collectd, etc.

I want to send these metrics to Stackdriver. 

Three alternatives came to mind:

1. build a new metric reporter using Stackdriver Monitoring API

2. create a new Stackdriver monitoring agent

3. create a sidecar container that collects metrics (shared file or http polling) and send them to StackDriver (API ? collectd ?)

What would be the most efficient and straighforward way to achieve that ?

Any help is appreciated.

[Brandon Philips]

Sidecar would probably be the best choice for separation of concerns of monitoring vs exporting of metrics for a single process.

Disclaimer: I don't know the Stackdriver product well; but it seems to have a set list of third-party monitors: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/agent/plugins/

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