README.md

# TelemetryMetricsLogger

A [`telemetry_metrics`](https://github.com/beam-telemetry/telemetry_metrics) reporter that prints to the `Logger`.

This is different from the built-in console reporter for two reasons:

1. This reporter prints to the logger, instead of standard output
2. This reporter calculates metrics and prints a periodic report, instead of printing every configured event immediately

## Installation

This package can be installed by adding `telemetry_metrics_logger` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:

```elixir
def deps do
  [
    {:telemetry_metrics_logger, "~> 0.1"}
  ]
end
```

The docs can be found at [https://hexdocs.pm/telemetry_metrics_logger](https://hexdocs.pm/telemetry_metrics_logger).

## Usage

For example, imagine the given metrics:

```elixir
metrics = [
  last_value("vm.memory.binary", unit: :byte),
  counter("vm.memory.total"),
  summary("phoenix.endpoint.stop.duration", unit: {:native, :millisecond})
]
```

A this reporter can be started as a child of your supervision tree like this:

```elixir
{TelemetryMetricsLogger, metrics: metrics, interval: 60}
```

Then, every sixty seconds, you will see a report like this:

```
12:31:54.492 [info]  Telemetry report 2020-11-09T17:48:00Z
  Event [:vm, :memory]
    Measurement "binary"
      Last value: 100 B
    Measurement "total"
      Counter: 1
  Event [:phoenix, :endpoint, :stop]
    Measurement "duration"
      Summary:
        Average: 101 ms
        Min: 52 ms
        Max: 127 ms
```

## Maintainer

This project was developed by [Rosa Richter](https://github.com/Cantido).
You can get in touch with her on [Keybase.io](https://keybase.io/cantido).

## Contributing

Questions and pull requests are more than welcome.
I follow Elixir's tenet of bad documentation being a bug,
so if anything is unclear, please [file an issue](https://github.com/Cantido/telemetry_metrics_logger/issues/new)!
Ideally, my answer to your question will be in an update to the docs.

Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for all the details you could ever want about helping me with this project.

Note that this project is released with a Contributor [Code of Conduct](code_of_conduct.md).
By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

## License

MIT License

Copyright 2020 Rosa Richter

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