StatsD Daemon
A StatsD Daemon is a network daemon for collecting and aggregating statistics from applications.
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2023
- chat
- Q: what is a StatsD Daemon?
- A: StatsD is a simple and lightweight daemon for collecting and aggregating statistics from applications. It was developed by Etsy and has become a popular tool for monitoring and measuring the performance of web applications.
StatsD works by sending metrics, such as counters and timers, to a central server where they are aggregated and processed. The daemon listens on a specific port and receives metrics over UDP, which makes it fast and efficient. The metrics can then be stored in a time-series database, such as Graphite or InfluxDB, and visualized using a variety of tools, such as Grafana.
StatsD provides a simple and flexible way to instrument applications and measure performance. It supports a wide range of use cases, including measuring response times, counting errors, and tracking application-specific metrics. The use of UDP for communication makes it fast and efficient, and the simple data format makes it easy to integrate with a variety of tools and systems.
2021
- https://github.com/etsy/statsd
- QUOTE: A network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite). ... StatsD was inspired (heavily) by the project (of the same name) at Flickr. Here's a post where Cal Henderson described it in depth: Counting and timing Cal re-released the code recently: Perl StatsD