statsd-http-interface

☠ Warning - Only works on StatsD's master branch ☠

(That is, you will need a release after 0.7.2 for this to work.)

Adds a HTTP front-end to StatsD. Install this package along with StatsD and change the cofig thusly:

{
  ...
  server: 'statsd-http-interface',
  // The server will open a HTTP interface on this port
  port: 8080,
  // Require a `token`-header to have this value before accepting any data.
  // token: 'SECRET'
}

Sending data to the client can be done thusly:

echo 'foo:0|c\nbar:1|c\nbaz:2|c' | \
  curl localhost:8080 --data-binary @- --header 'token: SECRET'

Why?

We really want to get metrics out of an environment where UDP traffic is denied (hello, Heroku!). While it is possible to run a StatsD in each dyno, it denies us all the nice aggregation-properties that StatsD would otherwise give us across a server-farm.

License

ISC