4 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kamon-core/src/main/resources/reference.conf b/kamon-core/src/main/resources/reference.conf
index 40756fef..2d37780d 100644
--- a/kamon-core/src/main/resources/reference.conf
+++ b/kamon-core/src/main/resources/reference.conf
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ kamon {
     instance = "auto"
   }
 
-  # FQCN of the reporter instances that should be loaded when calling `Kamon.reporters.loadFromConfig()`. All reporter
-  # classes must have a default constructor. No metric filtering is applied to metric reporters started this way.
+  # FQCN of the reporter instances that should be loaded when calling `Kamon.reporters.loadReportersFromConfig()`. All
+  # reporter classes must have a default constructor. No metric filtering is applied to metric reporters started this way.
 
-  # Example: `reporters = ["kamon.prometheus.Prometheus", "kamon.zipkin.Zipkin"]`.
+  # Example: `reporters = ["kamon.prometheus.PrometheusReporter", "kamon.zipkin.ZipkinReporter"]`.
   reporters = [ ]
 
   # Pool size for the executor service that will run sampling on RangeSampler instruments. This scheduler is accesible
diff --git a/kamon-core/src/main/scala/kamon/Kamon.scala b/kamon-core/src/main/scala/kamon/Kamon.scala
index 562ef615..8f69ab41 100644
--- a/kamon-core/src/main/scala/kamon/Kamon.scala
+++ b/kamon-core/src/main/scala/kamon/Kamon.scala
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ object Kamon extends MetricLookup with ReporterRegistry with Tracer {
   @volatile private var _filters = Filters.fromConfig(_config)
 
   private val _clock = new Clock.Default()
-  private val _scheduler = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(schedulerPoolSize(_config), numberedThreadFactory("kamon-scheduler"))
+  private val _scheduler = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(schedulerPoolSize(_config), numberedThreadFactory("kamon-scheduler", daemon = true))
   private val _metrics = new MetricRegistry(_config, _scheduler)
   private val _reporterRegistry = new ReporterRegistry.Default(_metrics, _config, _clock)
   private val _tracer = Tracer.Default(Kamon, _reporterRegistry, _config, _clock)
diff --git a/kamon-core/src/main/scala/kamon/ReporterRegistry.scala b/kamon-core/src/main/scala/kamon/ReporterRegistry.scala
index 213ad19f..ee70de4a 100644
--- a/kamon-core/src/main/scala/kamon/ReporterRegistry.scala
+++ b/kamon-core/src/main/scala/kamon/ReporterRegistry.scala
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ object ReporterRegistry {
 
   private[kamon] class Default(metrics: MetricsSnapshotGenerator, initialConfig: Config, clock: Clock) extends ReporterRegistry with SpanSink {
     private val logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(classOf[ReporterRegistry])
-    private val registryExecutionContext = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(2, threadFactory("kamon-reporter-registry"))
+    private val registryExecutionContext = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(2, threadFactory("kamon-reporter-registry", daemon = true))
     private val reporterCounter = new AtomicLong(0L)
     private var registryConfiguration = readRegistryConfiguration(initialConfig)
 
diff --git a/kamon-core/src/main/scala/kamon/package.scala b/kamon-core/src/main/scala/kamon/package.scala
index c746efa1..d3b25500 100644
--- a/kamon-core/src/main/scala/kamon/package.scala
+++ b/kamon-core/src/main/scala/kamon/package.scala
@@ -30,18 +30,19 @@ package object kamon {
   /**
     * Creates a thread factory that assigns the specified name to all created Threads.
     */
-  def threadFactory(name: String): ThreadFactory =
+  def threadFactory(name: String, daemon: Boolean = false): ThreadFactory =
     new ThreadFactory {
       val defaultFactory = Executors.defaultThreadFactory()
 
       override def newThread(r: Runnable): Thread = {
         val thread = defaultFactory.newThread(r)
         thread.setName(name)
+        thread.setDaemon(daemon)
         thread
       }
     }
 
-  def numberedThreadFactory(name: String): ThreadFactory =
+  def numberedThreadFactory(name: String, daemon: Boolean = false): ThreadFactory =
     new ThreadFactory {
       val count = new AtomicLong()
       val defaultFactory = Executors.defaultThreadFactory()
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ package object kamon {
       override def newThread(r: Runnable): Thread = {
         val thread = defaultFactory.newThread(r)
         thread.setName(name + "-" + count.incrementAndGet().toString)
+        thread.setDaemon(daemon)
         thread
       }
     }