Gauss

Sane defaults for statsd timers.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'gauss'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install gauss

You can configure it to use an app prefix, or it will just use the name of the Rails app (or no prefix if it's not a Rails app).

# in application.rb
Gauss::prefix = "GreatRailsApp"

Then you can either use an env var to set the server (ENV["STATSD_SERVER"]) or you can configure it manually

# also in application.rb
Gauss::server = "mystats.greatco.com"

Then in your application code, you can include the Gauss module in a class, and wrap a block with benchmark

# model.rb
class Model < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Gauss

  def do_something_complex
     benchmark { 1 + 1 }
  end
end

Now in statsd you'll see Graphite > Stats > Timers > great_rails_app > model > do_something_complex

Enjoy