Vagrant VM for StatsD + Graphite

Vagrant VM for StatsD and Graphite with the help of @hectcastro's graphite, statsd, and node.js cookbooks.

To get started

You need to have Vagrant installed.

$ librarian-chef install
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh

Graphite

$ open http://localhost:8080

Graphite's credentials default to username root and password root.

StatsD with Python

from statsd import StatsClient
statsd = StatsClient()
statsd.incr('foo')

StatsD with telnet

You can use the TCP Stats Interface

telnet 127.0.0.1 8126

or

echo counters | nc 127.0.0.1 8126