diff --git a/metrics/pom.xml b/metrics/pom.xml
index 794c53b157..574c1ac132 100644
--- a/metrics/pom.xml
+++ b/metrics/pom.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
     <parent>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     <properties>
         <dep.ver.metrics>3.1.2</dep.ver.metrics>
         <dep.ver.servlet>3.1.0</dep.ver.servlet>
-        <netflix.servo.ver>0.12.16</netflix.servo.ver>
+        <netflix.servo.ver>0.12.17</netflix.servo.ver>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -44,10 +44,24 @@
             <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
             <version>${dep.ver.servlet}</version>
         </dependency>
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.netflix.servo</groupId>
             <artifactId>servo-core</artifactId>
             <version>${netflix.servo.ver}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.netflix.servo</groupId>
+            <artifactId>servo-atlas</artifactId>
+            <version>${netflix.servo.ver}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-smile</artifactId>
+            <version>2.8.9</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/metrics/src/test/java/com/baeldung/metrics/servo/AtlasObserverLiveTest.java b/metrics/src/test/java/com/baeldung/metrics/servo/AtlasObserverLiveTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cc2d3aa393
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metrics/src/test/java/com/baeldung/metrics/servo/AtlasObserverLiveTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+package com.baeldung.metrics.servo;
+
+import com.netflix.servo.DefaultMonitorRegistry;
+import com.netflix.servo.monitor.BasicCounter;
+import com.netflix.servo.monitor.Counter;
+import com.netflix.servo.monitor.MonitorConfig;
+import com.netflix.servo.publish.BasicMetricFilter;
+import com.netflix.servo.publish.MonitorRegistryMetricPoller;
+import com.netflix.servo.publish.PollRunnable;
+import com.netflix.servo.publish.PollScheduler;
+import com.netflix.servo.publish.atlas.AtlasMetricObserver;
+import com.netflix.servo.publish.atlas.BasicAtlasConfig;
+import com.netflix.servo.tag.BasicTagList;
+import org.apache.commons.lang.math.RandomUtils;
+import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+
+import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.SECONDS;
+import static org.apache.http.client.methods.RequestBuilder.get;
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.containsString;
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.not;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
+
+/**
+ * @author aiet
+ */
+public class AtlasObserverLiveTest {
+
+    private final String atlasUri = "http://localhost:7101/api/v1";
+
+    @Before
+    public void prepareScheduler() {
+        System.setProperty("servo.pollers", "1000");
+        System.setProperty("servo.atlas.batchSize", "1");
+        System.setProperty("servo.atlas.uri", atlasUri + "/publish");
+        AtlasMetricObserver observer = new AtlasMetricObserver(new BasicAtlasConfig(), BasicTagList.of("servo", "counter"));
+
+        PollRunnable task = new PollRunnable(new MonitorRegistryMetricPoller(), new BasicMetricFilter(true), observer);
+        PollScheduler
+          .getInstance()
+          .start();
+        PollScheduler
+          .getInstance()
+          .addPoller(task, 1, SECONDS);
+    }
+
+    @After
+    public void stopScheduler() {
+        if (PollScheduler
+          .getInstance()
+          .isStarted()) {
+            PollScheduler
+              .getInstance()
+              .stop();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private String atlasValuesOfTag(String tagname) throws Exception {
+        HttpEntity entity = HttpClients
+          .createDefault()
+          .execute(get()
+            .setUri(atlasUri + "/tags/" + tagname)
+            .build())
+          .getEntity();
+        return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(entity.getContent())).readLine();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenAtlasAndCounter_whenRegister_thenPublishedToAtlas() throws Exception {
+        Counter counter = new BasicCounter(MonitorConfig
+          .builder("test")
+          .withTag("servo", "counter")
+          .build());
+        DefaultMonitorRegistry
+          .getInstance()
+          .register(counter);
+        assertThat(atlasValuesOfTag("servo"), not(containsString("counter")));
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
+            counter.increment(RandomUtils.nextInt(10));
+            SECONDS.sleep(1);
+            counter.increment(-1 * RandomUtils.nextInt(10));
+            SECONDS.sleep(1);
+        }
+
+        assertThat(atlasValuesOfTag("servo"), containsString("counter"));
+    }
+
+}