community.general.statsd module – Send metrics to StatsD
Note
This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).
You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible
package.
It is not included in ansible-core
.
To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list
.
To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
.
You need further requirements to be able to use this module,
see Requirements for details.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.statsd
.
New in community.general 2.1.0
Synopsis
The
statsd
module sends metrics to StatsD.For more information, see https://statsd-metrics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.
Supported metric types are
counter
andgauge
. Currently unupported metric types aretimer
,set
, andgaugedelta
.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
statsd
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
---|---|
StatsD host (hostname or IP) to send metrics to. Default: |
|
The name of the metric. |
|
The prefix to add to the metric. Default: |
|
The type of metric. Choices:
|
|
The port on Default: |
|
The transport protocol to send metrics over. Choices:
|
|
State of the check, only Choices:
|
|
Sender timeout, only applicable if Default: |
|
The value of the metric. |
Attributes
Attribute |
Support |
Description |
---|---|---|
Support: none |
Can run in |
|
Support: none |
Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in |
Examples
- name: Increment the metric my_counter by 1
community.general.statsd:
host: localhost
port: 9125
protocol: tcp
metric: my_counter
metric_type: counter
value: 1
- name: Set the gauge my_gauge to 7
community.general.statsd:
host: localhost
port: 9125
protocol: tcp
metric: my_gauge
metric_type: gauge
value: 7