[VOL-1386]  This commit add "dep" as the package management tool
for voltha-go.

Change-Id: I52bc4911dd00a441756ec7c30f46d45091f3f90e
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics/json.go b/vendor/github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics/json.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..174b947
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics/json.go
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package metrics
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"io"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// MarshalJSON returns a byte slice containing a JSON representation of all
+// the metrics in the Registry.
+func (r *StandardRegistry) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	return json.Marshal(r.GetAll())
+}
+
+// WriteJSON writes metrics from the given registry  periodically to the
+// specified io.Writer as JSON.
+func WriteJSON(r Registry, d time.Duration, w io.Writer) {
+	for _ = range time.Tick(d) {
+		WriteJSONOnce(r, w)
+	}
+}
+
+// WriteJSONOnce writes metrics from the given registry to the specified
+// io.Writer as JSON.
+func WriteJSONOnce(r Registry, w io.Writer) {
+	json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(r)
+}
+
+func (p *PrefixedRegistry) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	return json.Marshal(p.GetAll())
+}