rstatsd

rstatsd is a ruby based daemon for capturing data from statsd clients and displaying graphs. It stores graph data in fixed-length data structures in redis.

rstatsd is inspired by the work at etsy to measure anything, measure everything. They use a combination of node.js and graphite to capture and graph this data.

The goal of this project was to replicate this approach in a very light-weight way by reducing the number of dependencies to do this to two: redis and ruby.

Installation

$ gem install rstatsd

Usage

Start redis

$ brew install redis
$ redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis.conf

Start the collection daemon and server

$ rstatsd

Open the web server in a browser and follow the directions:

$ open  http://localhost:8126/

URL Schema

You can request multiple data points to be graphed simultaneously by specifying multiple targets:

http://localhost:8126/stats?target=foo&target=bar

Supported data types

• counters (statsd.increment, statsd.decrement)

Todo

• statsd data types other than counters
• time window graphing