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Collecting and graphing metrics via Apache Camel, Statsd, and Graphite

If you're curious about Apache Camel's metrics reporting via Dropwizard , this guide will help you get Graphite running in a Docker container. Then you will run an instrumented Camel application and view its metrics via Graphite's browser UI. (1) Install Docker There are many ways to do this depending on your platform. Google it. (2) Install and run the Docker container for Statsd and Graphite Refer to  https://github.com/hopsoft/docker-graphite-statsd The instructions infer that you can run the container without specifying port mappings. This is plain wrong. So use the following command to start the container: docker run -d --name graphite --restart=always -p 80:80 -p 8125:8125/udp hopsoft/graphite-statsd It is not necessary to enable Graphite's UDP listener. Statsd receives metrics via UDP and forwards them to Graphite over TCP. (3) On Windows and OSX, determine the IP address of the graphite Docker container On Linux, you can use localhost. On Win