Merge pull request #118 from dnephin/expose-default-metrics

Expose the global default metrics

Author: armon

start.go

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/hashicorp/go-immutable-radix"
+	iradix "github.com/hashicorp/go-immutable-radix"
 )
 
 // Config is used to configure metrics settings
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ func init() {
 	globalMetrics.Store(&Metrics{sink: &BlackholeSink{}})
 }
 
+// Default returns the shared global metrics instance.
+func Default() *Metrics {
+	return globalMetrics.Load().(*Metrics)
+}
+
 // DefaultConfig provides a sane default configuration
 func DefaultConfig(serviceName string) *Config {
 	c := &Config{