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What is the difference between "hikaricp.connections." and "jdbc.connections." meter names? I have a Spring Boot 2 application that is defaulting to the Hikari connection pool mechanism and I am tring to understand how to best monitor the database connections in production. After visualizing my metrics in Datadog, I am seeing a slight difference in the metric data for both hikariCP.connections.active and jdbc.connections.active.

Are the JDBC meter names duplicates? Should one be used over the other or does it not matter. I have been struggling to find more detailed documentation on this. Any help is much appreciated.

Mark Rotteveel
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HikariCP is a connection pool and JDBC is the API for managing a connection. So it can be thought that Spring thinks about separating connection-pool-manager metrics from connection metrics.

Amir Keshavarz
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