title: Sending System Metrics to Graphite with Spring-Boot
body: <p>Spring-Boot actuator exposes many useful metrics at <code>/metrics</code> such as uptime, memory usage, GC count.</p>
  
  <p>Only a subset of these are sent to Graphite when using the Dropwizard Metrics integration. In specific, only the counters and gauges</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to get these other metrics to be published to graphite?</p>
  
  <p>The <a href="http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current-SNAPSHOT/reference/htmlsingle/#production-ready-dropwizard-metrics" rel="nofollow">documentation</a> suggests that it should be possible:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Users of the Dropwizard ‘Metrics’ library will find that Spring Boot metrics are automatically published to com.codahale.metrics.MetricRegistry</p>
  </blockquote>