StatsD

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

Content:

• Configuration Parameters

• Configuration Examples

Configuration Parameters

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.	false

Configuration Examples

Here is a configuration example.

fluent-bit.conf

[INPUT]
    Name   statsd
    Listen 0.0.0.0
    Port   8125

[OUTPUT]
    Name   stdout
    Match  *

fluent-bit.yaml

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

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}]