A high-performance Elixir client for StatsD-compatible servers, optimized for speed and reliability.
Statix is an Elixir client library for StatsD-compatible servers, enabling developers to send application metrics like counters, timers, and gauges. It solves the problem of efficient metric collection in high-throughput Elixir applications by optimizing for speed and reliability. The library is designed to be simple, complete, and correct while delivering superior performance.
Elixir developers and teams building applications that require robust monitoring and metric collection, particularly in performance-sensitive or high-throughput environments.
Developers choose Statix for its exceptional speed, achieved through direct socket sending, UDP header caching, connection pooling, and IO lists optimization. It outperforms other clients by minimizing memory usage and maximizing throughput without sacrificing simplicity or correctness.
Fast and reliable Elixir client for StatsD-compatible servers
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Sends metrics directly to the socket, reducing memory consumption and increasing throughput compared to process-based clients, as benchmarked at 876,640 counter increments per flush.
Caches UDP packet headers to minimize overhead, improving performance for repeated metric sends without re-computation.
Uses connection pooling to distribute metric sending across multiple connections, enhancing scalability in high-throughput Elixir applications.
Diligently uses IO lists for efficient data construction and transmission, leveraging Erlang/Elixir performance best practices to reduce latency.
Only compatible with StatsD servers, lacking built-in support for other monitoring systems like Prometheus, which may require additional adapters.
Focuses on performance but does not provide built-in retry mechanisms or robust error handling for network failures, leaving it to the developer.
Requires manual setup of connection pooling and socket options, which can be non-trivial for those new to network programming in Elixir.