oc-statsd

OpenComponents plugin for interacting with StatsD inside OC components.

Requirements:

• Node version: min: 6
• OC registry
• StatsD server

Install

npmioc-statsd--save

Registry setup

More info about integrating OC plugins: here

...
constregistry=oc.registry(configuration);registry.register({name: 'statsd',register: require('oc-statsd'),options: {host: 'statsd.hosts.com',prefix: 'oc-registry.prod.vm12345',port: 8125,debug: false}},(err)=>{if(err){console.log('plugin initialisation failed:',err);}else{console.log('statsd now available');}});
...
registry.start(callback);

Using it inside components

Example for a components' server.js:

module.exports.data=(context,callback)=>{constbefore=newDate();conststats=context.plugins.statsd('mycomponent.doSomething');doSomething(()=>{
...
stats.timing('something.happened',newDate()-before);callback(null,{ ... });});};

API

Api for plugin setup:

parameter	type	mandatory	description
debug	boolean	no	Debug mode
host	string	yes	The statsd host
port	number	no	Default 8152, the statsd port
prefix	string	yes	The statsd prefix

Api for plugin usage

The plugin name is declared when initialising a plugin. Following assumes statsd is the designated name.

context.plugins.statsd(namespace)

Gets instance of statsd client in the supplied namespace.

Contributing

Yes please. Open an issue first.

License

MIT