statsd-zig

March 19, 2025 · View on GitHub

Basic DogStatsD UDP/UDS server supporting gauges, counters and distributions and sending these metrics to Datadog.

Getting started

  • Build the binary with zig build (build with Zig 0.14.0)
  • Set the environment variables APIKEY and HOSTNAME to configure the daemon

Uses epoll on Linux, kqueue on macOS.

Socket

With UDP

  • Launch the daemon and start sending counters, gauges and distributions on port udp/8125

With UDS

  • Set the environment variable UDS to a filepath of the unix socket you want to use
  • Sends counters, gauges and distributions on this unix socket with a DogStatsD client

Author

Rémy 'remeh' Mathieu

License

This side-project is not endorsed in any way by Datadog.

MIT