metrics-0.4.0.1: High-performance application metric tracking
A port of Coda Hale's excellent metrics library for the JVM
https://github.com/codahale/metrics
For motivation about why you might want to track application metrics, check Coda's talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czes-oa0yik
Interesting portions of this package's documentation were also appropriated from the metrics library's documentation: