tuxpiper/statsd-cloudwatch repository overview

⁠StatsD server with CloudWatch backend (containerised)

This container runs a StatsD server that periodically flushes its metrics to AWS CloudWatch.

Uses:

• github.com/etsy/statsd⁠
• github.com/camitz/aws-cloudwatch-statsd-backend⁠

⁠Configuration

Via environment variables:

• CLOUDWATCH_NAMESPACE: CloudWatch namespace to send metrics to (optional, defaults to "AwsCloudWatchStatsdBackend")
• PORT_UDP
• PORT_TCP

Plus the usual AWS configuration env vars

• AWS_REGION
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_ID

or instead of API keys

• AWS_IAM_ROLE: IAM role to retrieve credentials for