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package org.onlab.metrics;

/**
 * Interface of reporter that reports all metrics value to third party monitor.
 */
public interface MetricsReporter {

    /**
     * Starts to report a set of metrics to the monitoring server.
     */
    void startReport();

    /**
     * Stops reporting metrics.
     */
    void stopReport();

    /**
     * Restarts metrics reporter.
     */
    void restartReport();

    /**
     * Notifies the changes on metric registry.
     */
    void notifyMetricsChange();
}