DogStatsD Wire Protocol
DogStatsD is the Datadog Agent's StatsD-compatible ingestion protocol. It is a strict superset of the StatsD wire format that adds first-class tag syntax (`|#k:v,k:v`), histogram (`|h`) and distribution (`|d`) metric types, events (`_e{title.len,text.len}:title|text|...`), service checks (`_sc|name|status|...`), and Unix Domain Socket transport in addition to UDP/8125. Wide adoption beyond Datadog itself — Stripe Veneur, Atlassian gostatsd, Telegraf, and Shopify's statsd-instrument all speak DogStatsD — has made it the de facto modern dialect of the StatsD line protocol.
DogStatsD Wire Protocol is one of 8 APIs that StatsD publishes on the APIs.io network, described by an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.
This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Datadog, Distributions, DogStatsD, Event, and Histograms. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an AsyncAPI specification, and 2 JSON Schemas.
This event API exposes 0 operations across 3 channels, and defines 8 schemas. It is described by AsyncAPI 3.0.0, at version 1.0.0.
The API connects through 2 servers: {host}:8125 (udp), {socketPath} (unix).
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Messages & Schemas 8
The contract defines 8 schemas that model the data carried by its messages. Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable AsyncAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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