can anyone recommend an analytics solution for my ...

# ktor

[adeln]

can anyone recommend an analytics solution for my ktor backend? E.g. which endpoints get called the most, from which countries, which browsers etc?

[dave08]

You could use Micrometer.io, or just simply the Dropwizard metrics plugin and instrument your code with one of them. For Dropwizard there's an existing Feature, for micrometer, I made a pull request (the current code is usable), then you gain Prometheus support (which is standard in Kubernetes and Docker worlds..)

[adeln]

thank you so much man

[dave08]

Also see best practices section in https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/.. nice pointers for instrumenting.

[adeln]

@dave08 can’t find an existing ktor.Feature for Dropwizard. Is it public?

[dave08]

https://ktor.io/servers/features/metrics.html

[dave08]

And the micrometer pull request https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/pull/718

[Saša Šijak]

@dave08 how does micrometer comapre to dropwizard metrics

[dave08]

It's a wrapper around dropwizard and other libs like prometheus, so you just instrument your code once, then you can switch the backend metrics db according to your needs. I think Prometheus is one of the more popular metrics dbs out there and I don't think dropwizard by itself supports it, which is why I made the pull request. @Saša Šijak