statsd

There’s a few good posts out there about Graphite Events with how and why to use them. Earlier I was trying to add events to Graphite but ran into an issue: my events used a timestamp in the past. The examples I found only showed publishing events with a ’now’ timestamp. I went digging and found the extension of Graphite to add events - the functionality exists. Just add a ‘when’ to your payload with a Unix timestamp....

Measure all the things! Graphite & statsd are my weapons of choice. One set of metrics in particular that we wanted to measure are the various TCP stats, including TCP Retransmit rate. We crafted a Python script to send all of the metrics in a single UDP packet and hit a weird scenario. The python script was all ready to roll except that StatsD was only logging one metric. All of the metric packets were arriving at the StatsD instance, but only one was being processed....