StatsD OpenTSDB publisher backend

Overview

This is a pluggable backend for StatsD, which publishes stats to OpenTSDB (http://opentsdb.net)

Installation

npm install statsd-opentsdb-backend

Configuration

You have to give basic information about your OpenTSDB server to use

{ opentsdbHost: 'localhost'
, opentsdbPort: 4242
, opentsdbTagPrefix: '_t_'
}

Tag support

This backend allows you to attach OpenTSDB tags to your metrics. To add a counter called gorets and tag the data foo=bar, you'd write the following to statsd:

gorets._t_foo.bar:261|c

Dependencies

• none

Development

• Bugs

Issues

If you want to contribute:

1. Clone your fork
2. Hack away
3. If you are adding new functionality, document it in the README
4. Push the branch up to GitHub
5. Send a pull request