StatsD is the network daemon and UDP-based line protocol for application metrics, originally written at Etsy and now maintained at github.com/statsd/statsd. A StatsD client emits short text packets — counters, gauges, timers, histograms, sets, and meters — to a daemon that aggregates them in memory and flushes derived series to a backend such as Graphite, InfluxDB, Datadog, CloudWatch, or any of 30+ third-party sinks. The wire format is the canonical contract; dozens of language clients and several alternative servers (DogStatsD, Telegraf, gostatsd, brubeck, statsite, Veneur, bioyino) speak it with small, well-documented dialect extensions for tags, histograms, events, and service checks.
StatsD publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Wire Protocol, DogStatsD Wire Protocol, Configuration API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Aggregation, Daemon, DogStatsD, Line Protocol, and Metrics.
The StatsD catalog on APIs.io includes 2 event-driven AsyncAPI specifications, 1 JSON-LD context, and 3 Spectral governance rulesets.
StatsD’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, changelog, and 50 more developer resources.
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The StatsD wire protocol is a UTF-8, line-oriented, UDP-by-default packet format used to push application metrics from clients to a StatsD daemon. Each line takes the form `buck...
DogStatsD is the Datadog Agent's StatsD-compatible ingestion protocol. It is a strict superset of the StatsD wire format that adds first-class tag syntax (`|#k:v,k:v`), histogra...
The DogStatsD wire protocol — Datadog's StatsD-compatible ingestion format. A strict superset of vanilla StatsD that adds first-class tag syntax (`|#k:v,k:v`), histogram (`|h`) ...
The StatsD wire protocol: a UTF-8, line-oriented, UDP-by-default text format used by application code to push metrics to a StatsD daemon for in-memory aggregation. Each datagram...
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