DropWizard Metrics Advice

I was working on an application with DropWizard, and I was having trouble getting my own metrics to show up in the display. The Metrics Getting Started is useful, and it actually showed me what I needed, but didn’t make it obvious enough for me. What I needed was, in DropWizard Metrics parlance, a “meter.” This gives me performance data over time; basically, every time an event happens, I’d mark it and thus...