Short Talk on StatsD Backends. Use StatsD even if you don't use Graphite!

1. StatsD Backends
It’s not just for Graphite
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2. You know StatsD right?
• Originally by Etsy
• https://github.com/etsy/statsd
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3. How about
Graphite?
• Originally by Orbitz
• https://github.com/
graphite-project
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4. Graphite is sweet!
• It’s a great tool for the tool belt.
• It’s not for everyone though.
• Non-”standard” storage format
• have to host a “python app”
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5. StatsD backends FTW!
• Supports sending to a single or multiple
backends.
• This may or may not include graphite.
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6. Builtin Backends
• Out of the box StatsD supports:
• Graphite (of course)
• Console for debugging/troubleshooting
• Repeater for relaying StatsD packets
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7. Third Party Backends
•
amqp-backend
•
ganglia-backend
•
librato-backend
•
socket.io-backend
•
statsd-backend
•
mongo-backend
•
datadog-backend
•
monitis-backend
•
instrumental backend
•
hosted graphite backend
•
statsd aggregation backend
•
zabbix-backend
•
mysql-backend
Most found : https://github.com/etsy/statsd/wiki/Backends
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8. Don’t see what you like?
• creating a custom backend is easy.
• the repeater makes it easy to experiment.
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9. Just got easier
• Previously Backends calculated data.
• Pull request in to move calculations out of backends.
• Simplifies backends even more.
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10. The Moral is?
• StatsD and StatsD protocol work great
• Do : Extend and Improve StatsD
• Do : Use StatsD with additional backends
• Don’t : reinvent the wheel
• Don’t : make your app send metrics to separate
places when StatsD can.
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11. Thanks!
• Dan Rowe
• @draco2002
• drowe@wayfair.com
• https://github.com/draco2003
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