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On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Foley, Emma L <emma.l.foley at intel.com>
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> Hi Simon,
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> So collectd acts as a statsd server, and the metrics are aggregated and
> dispatched to the collectd daemon.
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> Collectd’s write plugins then output the stats to wherever we want them to
> go.
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> In order to interact with gnocchi using statsd, we require collectd to act
> as a statsd client and dispatch the metrics to gnocchi-statsd service.
>

AFAICT there's no such thing out of the box but it should be fairly
straightforward to implement a StatsD writer using the collectd Python
plugin.

Simon

[1] https://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd-python.5.shtml


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> Regards,
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> Emma
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> *From:* Simon Pasquier [mailto:spasquier at mirantis.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, February 1, 2016 9:02 AM
> *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <
> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>; Foley, Emma L <emma.l.foley at intel.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [telemetry][ceilometer] New project:
> collectd-ceilometer-plugin
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> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 29 2016, Foley, Emma L wrote:
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> > Supporting statsd would require some more investigation, as collectd's
> > statsd plugin supports reading stats from the system, but not writing
> > them.
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> I'm not sure what that means?
> https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:StatsD seems to indicate it
> can send metrics to a statsd daemon.
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> Nope that is the opposite: collectd can act as a statsd server. The man
> page [1] is clearer than the collectd Wiki.
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> Simon
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> [1]
> https://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd.conf.5.shtml#plugin_statsd
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