Github user srdo commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2789 It should. Take a look at https://github.com/srdo/storm/compare/892179527b5a...0916fae11cb2#diff-9c4945e8e924565ca1f071435f4711e9. If you compare the daemon classes (Nimbus, Supervisor etc.) there should be a call to stopMetricsReporters in all of them, that should stop the reporters on shutdown.
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