Configure statsd to work with Graphite

Question

So, I want to install statsd and use client python-statsd to collect some data for my Graphite that is successfully installed on my system. I followed this tutorial, but still have no statsd subdirectory in my Graphite folder

So what might be wrong and how I can check statsd working? (my python-statsd client doesn't show any error messages)

Answer 1

statsd must know where the carbon-cache (or carbon-relay) is located, it's part of the tutorial you followed. This should go into to the configuration for statsd.

{
graphitePort: 2003,
graphiteHost: "127.0.0.1",
port: 8125
}

To test that carbon-cache works you can send a message with echo

echo "foo.bar 1 `date +%s`" | nc -q0 <graphite host> 2003

this should give you a directory foo with a metric bar and value 1.

If that works, then your carbon is correctly configured and reachable. The next test it to talk to statsd

echo "foo.bar:2|c" | nc -q0 -u <statsd host> 8125

that should give you a new value of 2 in foo.bar. If that works then all should work.