Description

Installs and configures statsite, statsd implementation. https://github.com/armon/statsite

Requirements

• Ubuntu 10.04 / Ubuntu 12.04
• python
• git
• runit

Attributes

• node[:statsite][:path] - Default setting: "/opt/statsite"
• node[:statsite][:repo] - Default setting: "git://github.com/armon/statsite.git"
• node[:statsite][:conf] - Default setting: "/etc/statsite.conf"
• node[:statsite][:owner] - Default setting: "statsite"
• node[:statsite][:group] - Default setting: "statsite"
• node[:statsite][:port] - Default setting: 8125
• node[:statsite][:loglevel] - Default setting: "INFO"
• node[:statsite][:flush_interval] - Default setting: 10
• node[:statsite][:timer_eps] - Default setting: 0.01
• node[:statsite][:stream_command] - Optional handler. Default setting: ''
• default[:statsite][:service_type] - Can be "runit" or "upstart". Default: "runit"

Usage

recipe[statsite] install, build and start with either runit or upstart

Histogram

Additional histograms can be defined in node[:statsite][:histogram] attribute.

Role example:

{
...
  "default_attributes": {
    "statsite": {
      "port": 18125,
      "stream_command": "python /opt/statsite/sinks/graphite.py graphite.recfut.com 2003 statsite",
      "service_type": "upstart",
      "histogram": {
        "histogram_api": {
          "prefix": "api",
          "min": 0,
          "max": 100,
          "width": 5
        }
      }
    }
  }
...  
}