Scala 2.12 and Akka here, and pretty new to both. I'm trying to collect some metrics about my actor system at runtime. Specifically, I'm interested in:
- Getting the # of running actors in my actor system
- For each actor:
- Getting the number of messages it has received
- Getting the number of messages it has sent to other actors
- Determining how long a message has been in the actor's mailbox
- Determining how long the actor took to actually process the message
- Getting the current size of the actor's mailbox
- Determining how many dead letters have been sent across the entire actor system
I'm hoping Akka has some kind of little known "meta API" where I can go to get these kinds of metrics, otherwise I'm probably going to have to wire up my own instrumentation/telemetry and do everything myself, in which case I'm wondering what that approach might look like?
I see Lightbend has an awesome telemetry library but its commercial and I'm cheap :-)
