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3 Challenges to Monitoring StatsD and How to Tackle ThemCategory: Database, Data, Kubernetes, Infrastructure
StatsD is a key unifying protocol and set of tools for collecting application metrics and gaining visibility into the performance of applications. Etsy created StatsD in 2011 as a protocol for emitting application metrics.
Solution: If your company is investing in Kubernetes and microservices, growing rapidly or emitting a significant volume of StatsD metrics, then you need to invest in a more modern backend database, one that easily can handle the volume of metrics emitted by today’s applications.
Overall, you significantly reduce the number of metrics you’re ingesting and storing compared to pre-aggregations (as much as 10 to 20 times less), as well as reducing network bandwidth and associated costs.
Depending on your business, monitoring goals and the StatsD challenges affecting your organization the most, it may be time for you to evaluate other solutions so that you improve the ease and flexibility of your StatsD monitoring and get more value out of all that insightful data you’re generating.
Solution: If your company is investing in Kubernetes and microservices, growing rapidly or emitting a significant volume of StatsD metrics, then you need to invest in a more modern backend database, one that easily can handle the volume of metrics emitted by today’s applications.
Overall, you significantly reduce the number of metrics you’re ingesting and storing compared to pre-aggregations (as much as 10 to 20 times less), as well as reducing network bandwidth and associated costs.
Depending on your business, monitoring goals and the StatsD challenges affecting your organization the most, it may be time for you to evaluate other solutions so that you improve the ease and flexibility of your StatsD monitoring and get more value out of all that insightful data you’re generating.
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