A Symfony bundle for monitoring production applications by sending metrics to StatsD with ready-to-use collectors.
StatsD Client Bundle is a Symfony bundle that enables developers to monitor their production applications by sending metrics to StatsD servers. It provides ready-to-use collectors for tracking errors, user behavior, SQL queries, and memory usage, helping identify performance issues and application health.
Symfony developers and teams who need to monitor production application performance and metrics without building custom monitoring infrastructure.
Developers choose this bundle because it offers seamless Symfony integration with minimal configuration, includes practical pre-built collectors, and safely handles development environments by redirecting metrics to syslog instead of production servers.
Easily monitor your symfony2 production env., with ready-to-use stats.
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Provides a simple service callable via Symfony's dependency injection container, making it easy to inject and use with minimal configuration, as shown in the README's usage example.
In debug mode, metrics are sent to syslog instead of UDP sockets, preventing accidental interference with production servers, which is explicitly mentioned in the README for dev environments.
Aggregates multiple metrics into a single UDP packet to reduce network overhead, improving performance, as highlighted in the 'One UDP packet to rule them all' section.
Includes ready-to-use collectors for common metrics like visitor counts, user authentication, SQL queries, and PHP memory usage, reducing the need for custom code.
Relies on UDP for metric transmission, which is fast but unreliable; network issues can lead to lost metrics, a trade-off admitted in the README's links on UDP vs TCP.
The README explicitly advises against using its SQL query monitoring, stating it's not suggested and recommending server-level tools like Nagios instead, indicating it's not robust.
Requires separate setup and maintenance of StatsD and Graphite servers, adding complexity to the monitoring stack, as noted in the documentation links for installation.