Microphite

Overview

Microphite is a tiny and fast, asynchronous graphite client. It can be called many times per second with minimal overhead. It is synchronized internally and can be shared across threads. Both tcp and udp connections are supported.

Usage

Construct a standard socket client. See the 'Client Options' section below for initializer options.

client = Microphite.client(
    host: 'graphite.host',
    port: 2003,
    transport: :udp,
    prefix: 'app.prefix.')

Construct a client with an error_handler. The client is fault tolerant, but an error_handler is useful for logging connection failures.

handler = Proc.new { |error| Rails.logger.error "Microphite error: #{error.message}" }
client = Microphite.client(host: '...', error_handler: handler)

Construct a no-op/dummy client. This is useful in development. You can leave client API calls in-place and the dummy client will behave appropriately.

# Initializer options are accepted, but no data is written
client = Microphite.noop(host: 'host', ...)

Send data points

client.write('some.key': 300, 'another.key': 25)

Accumulate counters (flushed every :flush_interval seconds)

client.gather('some.counter': 22, 'another.counter': 10)

Time a code block, gathering to timing.task

client.time('timing.task') do
  task
end

Easy prefixing

client.prefix('p1.') do |p1|
  # Write to p1.key
  app.write(key: 42)

  p1.prefix('p2.') do |p2|
    # Write to p1.p2.key
    p2.write(key: 5)
  end
end

Close the client, waiting for data to flush

client.close

Alternatively, wait at most 1 second to flush

flushed = client.close(1)

Client Options

Key	Type	Description	Default
:host	String	Graphite server host (REQUIRED)	nil
:port	Integer	Graphite port	2003
:transport	Symbol	Graphite transport to use (:tcp or :udp)	:udp
:prefix	String/Symbol	Global prefix for all keys	''
:flush_interval	Numeric	How often to flush gathered data (in seconds)	1.0
:limit	Integer	Limit the write and gather stacks to this size	1000000
:min_delay	Numeric	Initial delay between retry attempts after failure (in seconds)	2
:max_delay	Numeric	Maximum delay between retry attempts after failure (in seconds)	60
:error_handler	Proc	Code block called on exception (takes a single exception param)	nil

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 BZ Technology Services, LLC

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