Catalyst-Plugin-Statsd

Log Catalyst stats to statsd


License
Artistic-2.0

Documentation

NAME

Catalyst::Plugin::Statsd - Log Catalyst stats to statsd

VERSION

version v0.8.2

SYNOPSIS

use Catalyst qw/
   Statsd
   -Stats=1
 /;

use Net::Statsd::Tiny;

__PACKAGE__->config(
  'psgi_middleware', [
      Statsd => {
          client => Net::Statsd::Tiny->new,
      },
  ],
);

# (or you can specify the Statsd middleware in your
# application's PSGI file.)

DESCRIPTION

This plugin will log Catalyst timing statistics to statsd.

CONFIGURATION

__PACKAGE__->config(

  'Plugin::Statsd' => {
      disable_stats_report => 0,
  },

);

disable_stats_report

Enabling stats will also log a table of statistics to the Catalyst log. If you do not want this, then set disable_stats_report to true.

Note that if you are modifying the log_stats method or using another plugin that does this, then this may interfere with that if you disable the stats report.

This defaults to

!$c->debug

METHODS

statsd_client

$c->statsd_client;

Returns the statsd client.

This is the statsd client used by Plack::Middleware::Statsd.

statsd_metric_name_filter

$c->statsd_metric_name_filter( $stat_or_name );

This method returns the name to be used for logging stats, or undef if the metric should be ignored.

Only alphanumeric characters, hyphens or underscores in namespaces are accepted. All other characters are converted to dots, with consecutive dots compressed into a single dot.

If it is passed a non-arrayref, then it will stringify the argument and return that.

If it is passed an array reference, then it assumes the argument comes from Catalyst::Stats report and is converted into a suitable metric name.

You can override or modify this method to filter out which metrics you want logged, or to change the names of the metrics.

METRICS

catalyst.response.time

This logs the Catalyst reponse time that is normally reported by Catalyst. However, it is probably unnecessary since Plack::Middleware::Statsd also logs response times.

catalyst.sessionid

If Catalyst::Plugin::Session or Plack::Middleware::Session is used, or anything that adds a sessionid method to the context, then the session id is added as a set, to count the number of unique sessions.

catalyst.stats.*.time

These are metrics generated from Catalyst::Stats.

All non-word characters in the paths in an action are changed to dots, e.g. the timing for an action /foo/bar will be logged with the metric catalyst.stats.foo.bar.time.

The metric name is generated by "statsd_metric_name_filter".

KNOWN ISSUES

Custom Profiling Points

If you have custom profiling points, then these will be treated as top-level names in the catalyst.stats.* namespaces, e.g.

my $stats = $c->stats;
$stats->profile( begin => 'here' );

...

$stats->profile( end => 'here' );

will be logged to statsd in the catalyst.stats.here.time namespace.

If you do not want this, then you can work around this by prefixing the block name with a controller name, e.g.

$stats->profile( begin => 'controller.here' );

Large Databases When Profiling

When profiling your application, the size of your stats database may grow quite large.

Your database storage and retention settings should be adjusted accordingly.

SUPPORT FOR OLDER PERL VERSIONS

Since v0.8.0, the this module requires Perl v5.14 or later.

Future releases may only support Perl versions released in the last ten years.

If you need this module on Perl v5.10, please use one of the v0.7.x versions of this module. Significant bug or security fixes may be backported to those versions.

SEE ALSO

SOURCE

The development version is on github at https://github.com/robrwo/CatalystX-Statsd and may be cloned from git://github.com/robrwo/CatalystX-Statsd.git

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/robrwo/CatalystX-Statsd/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

Robert Rothenberg rrwo@cpan.org

The initial development of this module was sponsored by Science Photo Library https://www.sciencephoto.com.

CONTRIBUTOR

Slaven Rezić slaven@rezic.de

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2018-2023 by Robert Rothenberg.

This is free software, licensed under:

The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)