A statsd server that publishes to cloudwatch
Project description
This is a simple service that runs in the foreground and publishes metrics received via the statsd protocol on udp port 8125 to CloudWatch. It’s expecting to run on EC2 with an IAM Instance Profile defined.
Installation
You can install this with pip:
pip install statsd-cloudwatch
It will install a binary called statsd_cloudwatch. This will run in the foreground and listen on port 8125. To run it as a service you can use systemd or upstart.
The following snippets assuming you have created a user called statsd.
For upstart, add /etc/init/statsd.conf:
start on runlevel [2345] stop on runlevel [!2345] setuid statsd setgid statsd kill timeout 900 respawn exec /app/bin/statsd_cloudwatch
Credentials
It is assumed that you will run this service on EC2 instances and that they will receive their credentials via the Amazon metadata service. You will need the following IAM policy:
{ "Statement": [{ "Action": ["cloudwatch:PutMetricData"], "Effect": "Allow", "Resource": "*" }] }
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