# StatsD

Skill · Cloud Computing and DevOps

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/statsd

StatsD is a lightweight network daemon, originally created at Etsy, that listens for application metrics (counters, timers, gauges) sent over UDP or TCP and aggregates them before forwarding to backend systems like Graphite or Datadog. Software engineers and DevOps teams use it to instrument applications for monitoring performance and operational health with minimal overhead. It became a de facto standard protocol adopted by many metrics libraries and monitoring tools.

Related skills: [Prometheus](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/prometheus), [Grafana](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/grafana), [Datadog](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/datadog)

## Open roles requiring StatsD (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.