This php library makes it simple to send stats you care about to a statsd daemon and has a little more functionality (and tests) than Etsy's default PHP implementation.
See: https://github.com/etsy/statsd
The biggest difference is the addition of a Queue which can be paused and flushed. This allows you to track hundreds of stats in a short time while still only sending one UDP packet at the end of whatever it is you are doing.
This is meant to be subclassed and the static $host
and $port
variables
overridden.
require('StatsD.php');
StatsD::increment("something");
StatsD::timing("something", $time);
StatsD::gauge("something", $value);
// Arbitrary valued counters (instead of inc / dec)
StatsD::updateStat("something", 42, 0.1); // 0.1 sample rate
// Buffer UDP output packets
StatsD::pauseStatsOutput();
// Bunch of StatsD::increment() or others
// Sends one UDP packet instead of one for each call
StatsD::flushStatsOutput();