A while back Etsy opensourced a little node.js daemon called StatsD that makes it easy for you to ‘Measure All the Things.’
In my current environment setting up graphs for the folks on the business team and on the dev team is difficult and time consuming as it has to funnel through ops. We’re a bottleneck 
I’m hoping to implement StatsD to make graphing a service that most anyone can directly interact with and remove me and my team as the bottleneck.
Below are my notes for setting it up.
