A command-line client?

[statsd]

A command-line client?

[msiebuhr]

For future reference, a bash-client has been added per 5095868.

[Dieterbe]

seems like a good idea. to avoid introducing a dependency on any particular scripting language it should probably be written in C or pure bash (bash can do udp/tcp natively)

[msiebuhr]

Yeah, my though exactly. Didn't know bash did native networking ;)

[shaftoe]

I agree this could be quite handy in many cases.
With bash, you can just do something like:

open the udp socket:
exec 3<> /dev/udp/statsd_ip_address/8125

send data:
echo "whatever|whatever" >&3

close udp socket:
exec 3<&-
exec 3>&-

[mrtazz]

There are examples for a couple of languages in the examples directory. I think pretty much all of them can be used (maybe with slight changes) to send metrics from the command line. And there are also a lot of client libraries out there. So given the simplicity of the StatsD protocol, I don't think there is a need for an official cli tool. But if anyone is up for writing a client in shell script for example, we're happy to include it in the examples as long as it is reasonably small.

[pataquets]

https://github.com/jondot/statsd-cli