| 1 | # What is StatsD?
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| 3 | StatsD is a front-end proxy for the Graphite/Carbon metrics server,
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| 4 | originally written by Etsy's Erik Kastner. It is based on ideas from
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| 5 | Flickr and this post by Cal Henderson: Counting and Timing. The
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| 6 | server was written in Node, though there have been implementations
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| 7 | in other languages since then.
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