Sample

A sampling throttler allows you to extract a sample of the exchanges from the traffic through a route.

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The Sample EIP works similar to a wire tap, but instead of tapping every message, the sampling will select a single message in a given time period. This selected message is allowed to pass through, and all other messages are stopped.

Options

The Sample eip supports 3 options, which are listed below.

Name Description Default Type

samplePeriod

Sets the sample period during which only a single Exchange will pass through.

1000

String

messageFrequency

Sets the sample message count which only a single Exchange will pass through after this many received.

Long

units

Deprecated Sets the time units for the sample period, defaulting to seconds.

Enum values:

  • NANOSECONDS

  • MICROSECONDS

  • MILLISECONDS

  • SECONDS

  • MINUTES

  • HOURS

  • DAYS

SECONDS

TimeUnit

description

Sets the description of this node.

DescriptionDefinition

Using Sample EIP

In the example below we sample one message per second (default time period):

from("direct:sample")
    .sample()
    .to("direct:sampled");

And in XML

<route>
    <from uri="direct:sample"/>
    <sample>
        <to uri="direct:sampled"/>
    </sample>
</route>

Sampling using time period

The default time period is 1 second, but this can easily be configured. For example to sample 1 message per 5 seconds you can do:

from("direct:sample")
    .sample(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
    .to("direct:sampled");

And in XML

<route>
    <from uri="direct:sample"/>
    <sample samplePeriod="5000">
        <to uri="direct:sampled"/>
    </sample>
</route>

Sampling using message frequency

The Sample EIP can also be configured to sample based on frequency instead of time period.

For example to sample every 10th message you can do:

from("direct:sample")
    .sample(10)
    .to("direct:sampled");

And in XML

<route>
    <from uri="direct:sample"/>
    <sample messageFrequency="10">
        <to uri="direct:sampled"/>
    </sample>
</route>
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