Wavefront StatsD Plugin

The Wavefront StatsD Plugin sends StatsD metrics to Wavefront. It also extends StatsD by allowing point tags.

Tagging Metrics

By default, you can send metrics to StatsD as follows:

echo "gauge1:+3|g" | nc -u -w0 192.168.99.100 8125

The Wavefront backend supports tagging by adding _t_ (tag) and _v_ (tag value) flags to your metric names. For example:

echo "gauge1_t_tag1_v_v1_t_tag2_v_v2:+3|g" | nc -u -w0 192.168.99.100 8125

This will produce a metric that looks like:

gauge1:+3
 - tag1:v1
 - tag2:v2

Installation

1. Clone or download StatsD from https://github.com/etsy/statsd.
2. Copy config.js and backends/wavefront.js from this repository into the statsd directory.
3. Update config.js to point to your Wavefront agent. Here is the sample config.js:

{
  port: 8125
, backends: ["./backends/wavefront"]
, dumpMessages: true
, wavefrontProxyServer: "192.168.99.100"
, wavefrontProxyPort: 3878
}

Run StatsD with the new config:

node stats.js config.js