# StatsD

The **statsd** input plugin allows you to receive metrics via StatsD protocol.

Content:

* [Configuration Parameters](#config)
* [Configuration Examples](#config_example)

## Configuration Parameters <a href="#config" id="config"></a>

The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:

| Key      | Description                                                                                                   | Default |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| Listen   | Listener network interface.                                                                                   | 0.0.0.0 |
| Port     | UDP port where listening for connections                                                                      | 8125    |
| Threaded | Indicates whether to run this input in its own [thread](/manual/3.1/administration/multithreading.md#inputs). | `false` |

## Configuration Examples <a href="#config_example" id="config_example"></a>

Here is a configuration example.

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="fluent-bit.conf" %}

```python
[INPUT]
    Name   statsd
    Listen 0.0.0.0
    Port   8125

[OUTPUT]
    Name   stdout
    Match  *
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="fluent-bit.yaml" %}

```yaml
pipeline:
    inputs:
        - name: statsd
          listen: 0.0.0.0
          port: 8125
    outputs:
        - name: stdout
          match: '*'
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

Now you can input metrics through the UDP port as follows:

```bash
echo "click:10|c|@0.1" | nc -q0 -u 127.0.0.1 8125
echo "active:99|g"     | nc -q0 -u 127.0.0.1 8125
```

Fluent Bit will produce the following records:

```
[0] statsd.0: [1574905088.971380537, {"type"=>"counter", "bucket"=>"click", "value"=>10.000000, "sample_rate"=>0.100000}]
[0] statsd.0: [1574905141.863344517, {"type"=>"gauge", "bucket"=>"active", "value"=>99.000000, "incremental"=>0}]
```


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