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Curious how people are integrating sending of metrics to graphite. It appears most are using a client (many available on statsd github) that sends to statsd which sends on to carbon. My question is do you think it is ok to include this "cross cutting concern" as such directly into your code. What I am seeing is my application code has went from been nice and clean to now not so nice and clean with code to gather metrics intertwined with my business code. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I do think that it's fine to include code to send business metrics in your application code. As @tomer-peled says in his comment, there is a close analogy with logging.

However I understand your reluctance to scatter this stuff around and possibly obfuscate the code. My approach in situations like this is to accept a certain amount of mess to begin with, then as more examples emerge I try to identify emergent structures which point to abstractions that would clean things up a bit.