How to push text data ? about pystatsd HOT 3 CLOSED

Hey @Sriram21, to clarify, are you thinking about metadata associated with a metric, like Datadog's tags? Or a metric like mysql_version that has distinct, non-numeric values like a set?

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Hi @jsocol ,

I am asking in the context of metadata assosciated for an application.. For eg if metrics are collected for mysql application numerical values such as connection count , open file count will go under gauge metric type.. Similary for non-numeric values ( metadata ) such as mysql-version how do we push it ? There are no metric types assoscciated with it.

Regards,
Sriram

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Ah thanks for clarifying. Statsd isn’t meant to store that kind of metadata. It’s designed to aggregate numeric metrics.

There are a couple of things like statsd, like DataDog and Telegraf, that have extended the statsd protocol with “tags”, which allow arbitrary metadata on each metric to allow you to disaggregate and slice the data. For example you could tag each connection open counter with the MySQL client and server versions. But statsd itself—and this client—don’t support that extension.

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