August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
5h 48m
English
Metrics are numeric measurements over time. The most common types of metrics collected in our systems are counters, timers, and gauges. A counter is exactly what it sounds like, a value that is incremented a number of times over some time period. A timer can be used to measure recurring events in a system, such as the amount of time it takes to serve a request or perform a database query. Gauges are just arbitrary numeric values that can be recorded.
StatsD is an open source network daemon invented in 2011 at Etsy. Metrics data is pushed to a statsd server, often on the same server, which aggregates data before sending it on to a durable backend. One of the most common backends used with statsd ...
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