EducationStats

This gem serves as an abstract Statd client which forwards Statsd commands to one or many configured Statsd clients. These clients may include a HostedGraphite client, which can be built using an API key.

Configure the client. The following example sets up two Statsd clients, one on HostedGraphite, and one manually configured. All that is needed to use a HostedGraphite client is to set the hostedgraphite_api_key. As many clients as you like may be added through the add_statsd_client method. A namespace for hostedgraphite may also be set using the hosted_graphite_namespace= method.

  other_client = Statsd.new(ENV['STATSD_HOST'], ENV['STATSD_PORT'], ENV['STATSD_KEY']).tap do |statsd|
    statsd.namespace = "education.#{Rails.env}.rails"
  end

  EducationStats.configure do |config|
    config.hosted_graphite_api_key   = 'abc123'
    config.hosted_graphite_namespace = 'rails.requests'
    config.add_statsd_client(other_client)
  end

Grab the client and send some commands:

  client = EducationStats.client

  client.increment 'education.mymetric'
  client.time 'education.my_timer' do
    @app.expensive_call()
  end

education-stats uses the github fork of statsd. It must be specified in your Gem dependencies as well:

gem 'statsd-ruby', require: 'statsd', github: 'github/statsd-ruby'
gem 'education_stats'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install education_stats

After checking out the repo, run script/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run script/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/mkcode/education_stats.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.