Interesting Snippets from 2013-06-12

• etsy/statsd · GitHub

  A network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite). We (Etsy) blogged about how it works and why we created it.

• Introducing Kale « Code as Craft

  In the world of Ops, monitoring is a tough problem. It gets harder when you have lots and lots of critical moving parts, each requiring constant monitoring. At Etsy, we’ve got a bunch of tools that we use to help us monitor our systems. You might be familiar with some of them: Nagios, StatsD, Graphite, and Ganglia. Today, we’d like to introduce you to a new tool that we’ve been working on for the past few months.

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