statsd

Infra

Updated 4 days ago

StatsD Overview

Secure your stack with a hardened StatsD image freshly-built by Minimus. Minimus images always include the most up-to-date package version for all packages and dependencies contained in the image.

StatsD lets applications emit metrics — counters, timers, and gauges — as simple UDP or TCP packets, without needing a client library that manages connections, retries, or buffering. It aggregates the incoming data points and flushes them on a fixed interval to one or more backend services, such as Graphite, for storage and visualization. This gives teams a lightweight way to instrument existing services with basic metrics without changing how those services are built or deployed.

Try It Out

Take the Minimus StatsD image for a test run:

docker run --rm -d --name statsd \
  -p 8125:8125/udp \
  -p 8126:8126 \
reg.mini.dev/statsd

This maps UDP port 8125, where StatsD listens for incoming metrics, and TCP port 8126, which exposes a management console for querying aggregated stats.

Send a counter metric to the daemon:

echo "foo:1|c" | nc -u -w1 localhost 8125

Query the management console to see the counter StatsD received:

echo "counters" | nc localhost 8126

You should get a response like:

{ foo: 1 }
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Technical Considerations

The StatsD image provided by Minimus is a slim, security-hardened alternative to the public image from Docker Hub. The images are largely interchangeable, with a few differences as noted below.

StatsD built by Minimus:

Runs as root to support required functions in alignment with the public image.
Drill down on the version specification tab to see the listening ports, entrypoint, volumes, environment variables, etc.

The Payoff

A hardened, minimal image that will remain more secure for the long run and accrue vulnerabilities at a slower rate.

See the risk reduction dashboard for a detailed CVE comparison over the past 30 days.
Review the compliance report to see the default hardening and security configurations for the image.

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