(Deprecated) statsd-injector

Use https://github.com/cloudfoundry/statsd-injector-release

Companion component to Metron that receives Statsd and emits Dropsonde to Metron

Getting started

The following instructions may help you get started with statsd-injector in a standalone environment.

External Dependencies

To start, you must have the latest version of Go installed and on your PATH.

Then, choose one of the following:

Running from the bosh release

The statsd-injector-release repository contains a complete GOPATH with all of the statsd-injector's dependencies frozen at known working versions. Working from that repository will guarantee the best compatibility with the bosh release.

To work from within the bosh release:

1. Clone https://github.com/cloudfoundry/statsd-injector-release
2. From the statsd-injector-release directory:
3. Run git submodule update --init --recursive
4. If you're not using direnv, run source .envrc

Running with go get

• Set your GOPATH, as described in http://golang.org/doc/code.html
• Run go get github.com/cloudfoundry/statsd-injector

Running Tests

We are using Ginkgo, to run tests. To run the tests, execute the following from the top level directory of this repository:

ginkgo -r -race -randomizeAllSpecs

Including statsd-injector in a bosh deployment

As an example, if you want the injector to be present on loggregator boxes, add the following in cf-lamb.yml

   loggregator_templates:
   - name: doppler
     release: (( lamb_meta.release.name ))
   - name: syslog_drain_binder
     release: (( lamb_meta.release.name ))
   - name: metron_agent
     release: (( lamb_meta.release.name ))
+  - name: statsd-injector
+    release: (( lamb_meta.release.name ))

Emitting metrics to the statsd-injector

You can emit statsd metrics to the injector by sending a correctly formatted message to udp port 8125

As an example using netcat:

echo "origin.some.counter:1|c" | nc -u -w0 127.0.0.1 8125

You should see the metric come out of the firehose.

The injector expects the the name of the metric to be of the form <origin>.<metric_name>