How to set local path for statsd log file configuration

logging statsd
ldavidson picture ldavidson · Aug 10, 2012 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

How do you set the log file path in the configuration file so that all the incoming messages can be dumped to a file statsd.log for example.

What I have so far is like this but it does not seem to work:

{
   graphitePort: 2003,
   graphiteHost: "omitted.for.post.com",
   port: 8125,
   flushInterval: 10000,
   debug: false,
   dumpMessages: true,
   log: "some/file/path/statsd.log"
}

Thanks

Answer

mmrobins picture mmrobins · Oct 9, 2012

You can redirect the output of statsd to wherever you want

node /usr/share/statsd/stats.js /etc/statsd/rdioConfig.js 2>&1 >> /tmp/statsd.log

Or you can set the logging to go to syslog. https://github.com/etsy/statsd/blob/master/exampleConfig.js#L42

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