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StatsD is an open-source standard and, by extension, a toolkit designed for sending, collecting, and aggregating custom metrics from diverse applications. Initially, StatsD denoted a daemon crafted by Etsy using Node.js.
This tutorial demonstrates installing and running StatsD using OpenTelemetry to send your metrics to Coralogix.
STEP 1. Save this config file as config.yaml
:
receivers: statsd: endpoint: "localhost:8125" aggregation_interval: 30s processors: batch: send_batch_size: 1024 send_batch_max_size: 2048 timeout: "1s" exporters: coralogix: domain: "<coralogix_domain>" private_key: "<private_key>" application_name: "applicationName" subsystem_name: "subsystemName" timeout: 30s service: pipelines: metrics: receivers: [ statsd ] processors: [ batch ] exporters: [ coralogix ]
STEP 2. Replace the
private_key
with your Send-Your-Data API key, and thecoralogix_domain
with your Coralogix domain.STEP 3. Run the config file.
otelcol-contrib --config config.yaml
STEP 1. To deploy StatsD using Docker, change the endpoint to 0.0.0.0:8125
in the config.yaml
file.
receivers: statsd: endpoint: "0.0.0.0:8125"
STEP 2. Run these commands to deploy the configuration:
docker pull otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib docker run -d -v ./config.yaml:/etc/otelcol-contrib/config.yaml -p 8125:8125/udp otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
To send test metrics, run the following command to test the configuration:
echo "test_metrics:65|c|#tag_1:value,tag_2:value_2" | nc -u -w1 127.0.0.1 8125 echo "test_metrics:65|g|#tag_1:value,tag_2:value_2" | nc -u -w1 127.0.0.1 8125
Access your Grafana account to view the metrics sent.
Send timer metrics to Coralogix with sum and count attributes:
receivers: statsd: endpoint: "0.0.0.0:8125" is_monotonic_counter: true aggregation_interval: 30s enable_metric_type: true timer_histogram_mapping: - statsd_type: "timer" observer_type: "summary"
To send metrics, use this command:
echo "timer_metrics:65|ms|#tag_1:value,tag_2:value_2" | nc -u -w1 127.0.0.1 8125
View more configuration options for the StatsD receiver here.
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Contact us via our in-app chat or by emailing support@coralogix.com.