DESCRIPTION:¶ ↑

Installs and configures Statsd (github.com/etsy/statsd)

REQUIREMENTS:¶ ↑

Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty)

ATTRIBUTES:¶ ↑

• statsd/port : The port for Statsd to listen for stats on.

• statsd/graphite_host : The host to forward processed statistics to.

• statsd/graphite_port : The port to forward processed statistics to.

• statsd/package_version : The version to use when creating the package. Defaults to 0.0.3

• statsd/tmp_dir : The temporary directory to while building the package

• statsd/repo : The gitrepo to use “git://github.com/etsy/statsd.git”

• statsd/sha : The sha checksum of the repo to use

TODO:

• statsd/backend

• add more options here

USAGE:¶ ↑

Include the statsd recipe, which will checkout Statsd from git, build a Debian package from it, and then install the package. Statsd is run under a “statsd” system user.

By default statsd will attempt to send statistics to a graphite instance running on localhost, which can be configured using the Graphite cookbook at community.opscode.com/cookbooks/graphite.

CAVEATS:¶ ↑

This cookbook depends on :

• git cookbook : to fetch the statsd code

• nodejs cookbook : to install nodejs (default from source, but use flags to do it from package)

  "nodejs": {
    "install_method": "package"
  },

• npm cookbook : to install backends (the community published one is broken)

  we have a fork on monigusto
  

KUDOS:¶ ↑

This cookbook assembles ideas from:

• librato/statsd cookbook - <github.com/librato/statsd-cookbook>

• Now I need to look into merging with - <github.com/hectcastro/chef-statsd>