Hi, The metrics v2 system contains a Ganglia reporter based on Dropwizard Metrics' metrics-ganglia module. One of the dependencies of this module is licensed under LGPL. In order to avoid including LGPL software in our releases, we would have to exclude this module and ask users to manually install the relevant jars.
Dropwizard Metrics has dropped support for metrics-ganglia due to the license on the LGPL dependency https://github.com/dropwizard/metrics/issues/1319. We won't be able to upgrade to Metrics version 4+ unless we remove the metrics-ganglia dependency. I'd like to know whether anyone is not okay with removing the Ganglia reporter from master and deprecating it in 1.x? If we want to keep Ganglia reporting, we should try to find an alternative to metrics-ganglia so we don't get stuck on a specific Metrics version.
