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Swift System Metrics hits 1.0 with stable API

Drop-in process monitoring for Swift services: CPU, memory, file descriptors collected via backend-agnostic metrics API, integrates with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.

Summary

Eliminates custom instrumentation boilerplate for Swift backends. Enables production observability from first deploy without vendor lock-in or complex setup.

Why it matters

Eliminates custom instrumentation boilerplate for Swift backends. Enables production observability from first deploy without vendor lock-in or complex setup.

Implementation verdict

Replaces hand-rolled /proc parsing and custom metric collectors. Requires Swift 5.9+, Swift Metrics ecosystem, and ServiceLifecycle for lifecycle handling. Ready now—API is stable and shipping with Grafana dashboard template included.

Sources

1.API-stable public interface
2.collects process-level system metrics like CPU utilization time and memory usage
3.Swift System Metrics runs on both Linux and macOS, providing a common API across platforms
4.can integrate Swift System Metrics into your service in just a few lines of code

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