diff --git a/apps/foo/pom.xml b/apps/foo/pom.xml
index 1a62f73..6109263 100644
--- a/apps/foo/pom.xml
+++ b/apps/foo/pom.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.onlab.onos</groupId>
+            <artifactId>onlab-osgi</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.onlab.onos</groupId>
             <artifactId>onlab-nio</artifactId>
             <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
diff --git a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/NettyEchoHandler.java b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/NettyEchoHandler.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1049a6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/NettyEchoHandler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package org.onlab.onos.foo;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.onlab.netty.Message;
+import org.onlab.netty.MessageHandler;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+
+/**
+ * Message handler that echos the message back to the sender.
+ */
+public class NettyEchoHandler implements MessageHandler {
+
+    private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());
+
+    @Override
+    public void handle(Message message) throws IOException {
+        //log.info("Received message. Echoing it back to the sender.");
+        message.respond(message.payload());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/NettyLoggingHandler.java b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/NettyLoggingHandler.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc10c82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/NettyLoggingHandler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package org.onlab.onos.foo;
+
+import org.onlab.netty.Message;
+import org.onlab.netty.MessageHandler;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * A MessageHandler that simply logs the information.
+ */
+public class NettyLoggingHandler implements MessageHandler {
+
+    private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());
+
+    @Override
+    public void handle(Message message) {
+        log.info("Received message. Payload has {} bytes", message.payload().length);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClient.java b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClient.java
index 8f94ec1..a397434 100644
--- a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClient.java
+++ b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClient.java
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
-import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
 
 import org.onlab.metrics.MetricsComponent;
@@ -35,28 +34,35 @@
         MetricsManager metrics = new MetricsManager();
         messaging.activate();
         metrics.activate();
-        MetricsFeature feature = new MetricsFeature("timers");
+        MetricsFeature feature = new MetricsFeature("latency");
         MetricsComponent component = metrics.registerComponent("NettyMessaging");
-        Timer sendAsyncTimer = metrics.createTimer(component, feature, "AsyncSender");
-        final int warmup = 100;
+
+        final int warmup = 10000;
         for (int i = 0; i < warmup; i++) {
+            messaging.sendAsync(new Endpoint("localhost", 8081), "simple", "Hello World".getBytes());
+            Response response = messaging
+                    .sendAndReceive(new Endpoint("localhost", 8081), "echo",
+                            "Hello World".getBytes());
+        }
+
+        Timer sendAsyncTimer = metrics.createTimer(component, feature, "AsyncSender");
+        Timer sendAndReceiveTimer = metrics.createTimer(component, feature, "SendAndReceive");
+
+        final int iterations = 10000000;
+        for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
             Timer.Context context = sendAsyncTimer.time();
-            messaging.sendAsync(new Endpoint("localhost", 8080), "simple", "Hello World".getBytes());
+            messaging.sendAsync(new Endpoint("localhost", 8081), "simple", "Hello World".getBytes());
             context.stop();
         }
-        metrics.registerMetric(component, feature, "AsyncTimer", sendAsyncTimer);
 
-        Timer sendAndReceiveTimer = metrics.createTimer(component, feature, "SendAndReceive");
-        final int iterations = 1000000;
         for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
             Timer.Context context = sendAndReceiveTimer.time();
             Response response = messaging
-                    .sendAndReceive(new Endpoint("localhost", 8080), "echo",
+                    .sendAndReceive(new Endpoint("localhost", 8081), "echo",
                                     "Hello World".getBytes());
-            System.out.println("Got back:" + new String(response.get(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS)));
+            // System.out.println("Got back:" + new String(response.get(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS)));
             context.stop();
         }
-        metrics.registerMetric(component, feature, "AsyncTimer", sendAndReceiveTimer);
     }
 
     public static class TestNettyMessagingService extends NettyMessagingService {
diff --git a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClientCommand.java b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClientCommand.java
index 8a603e9..3423b23 100644
--- a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClientCommand.java
+++ b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClientCommand.java
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
         description = "Starts the simple Netty client")
 public class SimpleNettyClientCommand extends AbstractShellCommand {
 
+    //FIXME: replace these arguments with proper ones needed for the test.
     @Argument(index = 0, name = "serverIp", description = "Server IP address",
             required = false, multiValued = false)
     String serverIp = "127.0.0.1";
diff --git a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyServer.java b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyServer.java
index 25ac59b..c0eb014 100644
--- a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyServer.java
+++ b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyServer.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package org.onlab.onos.foo;
 
-import org.onlab.netty.EchoHandler;
 import org.onlab.netty.NettyMessagingService;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -19,10 +18,10 @@
             }
 
         public static void startStandalone(String[] args) throws Exception {
-            NettyMessagingService server = new NettyMessagingService(8080);
+            NettyMessagingService server = new NettyMessagingService(8081);
             server.activate();
-            server.registerHandler("simple", new org.onlab.netty.LoggingHandler());
-            server.registerHandler("echo", new EchoHandler());
+            server.registerHandler("simple", new NettyLoggingHandler());
+            server.registerHandler("echo", new NettyEchoHandler());
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyServerCommand.java b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyServerCommand.java
index 2f82da0..17b2586 100644
--- a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyServerCommand.java
+++ b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyServerCommand.java
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@
 /**
  * Starts the Simple Netty server.
  */
-@Command(scope = "onos", name = "test-netty-server",
+@Command(scope = "onos", name = "simple-netty-server",
          description = "Starts the simple netty server")
 public class SimpleNettyServerCommand extends AbstractShellCommand {
 
+    //FIXME: Replace these with parameters for
     @Argument(index = 0, name = "serverIp", description = "Server IP address",
               required = false, multiValued = false)
     String serverIp = "127.0.0.1";
diff --git a/apps/foo/src/main/resources/OSGI-INF/blueprint/shell-config.xml b/apps/foo/src/main/resources/OSGI-INF/blueprint/shell-config.xml
index 93bd020..f8ee2b8 100644
--- a/apps/foo/src/main/resources/OSGI-INF/blueprint/shell-config.xml
+++ b/apps/foo/src/main/resources/OSGI-INF/blueprint/shell-config.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
         <command>
             <action class="org.onlab.onos.foo.TestIOServerCommand"/>
         </command>
+        <command>
+            <action class="org.onlab.onos.foo.SimpleNettyServerCommand"/>
+        </command>
+        <command>
+            <action class="org.onlab.onos.foo.SimpleNettyClientCommand"/>
+        </command>
     </command-bundle>
 
 </blueprint>
diff --git a/features/features.xml b/features/features.xml
index 0a56d9a..b240917 100644
--- a/features/features.xml
+++ b/features/features.xml
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@
              description="ONOS sample playground application">
         <feature>onos-api</feature>
         <bundle>mvn:org.onlab.onos/onos-app-foo/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</bundle>
+        <bundle>mvn:org.onlab.onos/onlab-netty/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</bundle>
     </feature>
 
     <feature name="onos-app-config" version="1.0.0"
diff --git a/utils/misc/src/main/java/org/onlab/metrics/MetricsManager.java b/utils/misc/src/main/java/org/onlab/metrics/MetricsManager.java
index 357791e..eaf2a54 100644
--- a/utils/misc/src/main/java/org/onlab/metrics/MetricsManager.java
+++ b/utils/misc/src/main/java/org/onlab/metrics/MetricsManager.java
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 package org.onlab.metrics;
 
-import java.io.File;
-import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
@@ -11,8 +9,8 @@
 import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Component;
 import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Deactivate;
 
+import com.codahale.metrics.ConsoleReporter;
 import com.codahale.metrics.Counter;
-import com.codahale.metrics.CsvReporter;
 import com.codahale.metrics.Gauge;
 import com.codahale.metrics.Histogram;
 import com.codahale.metrics.Meter;
@@ -69,15 +67,14 @@
     /**
      * Default Reporter for this metrics manager.
      */
-    private final CsvReporter reporter;
+    private final ConsoleReporter reporter;
 
     public MetricsManager() {
         this.metricsRegistry = new MetricRegistry();
-        this.reporter = CsvReporter.forRegistry(metricsRegistry)
-                .formatFor(Locale.US)
+        this.reporter = ConsoleReporter.forRegistry(metricsRegistry)
                 .convertRatesTo(TimeUnit.SECONDS)
                 .convertDurationsTo(TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS)
-                .build(new File("/var/onos/log/metrics/"));
+                .build();
     }
 
     @Activate