Configuring a StatsD monitoring endpoint

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Product Directory Capability Product documentation Content Type Administration User task Monitoring and Management IT Administrator Administrator Audience Software Deployment Method System Administrator Performance Tuning

The Stats Collector is used to create a StatsD monitoring endpoint.

To enable the Stats Collector plugin, run the following command.

dsconfig set-plugin-prop \
    --plugin-name "Stats Collector" \
    --set enabled:true

To create a StatsD monitoring endpoint, run the following command. After running the command, the server will send StatsD messages to your Splunk server over UDP at port 8125.

dsconfig create-monitoring-endpoint \
    --endpoint-name StatsDEndpoint \
    --type statsd \
    --set enabled:true \
    --set hostname:your-splunk.example.com \
    --set server-port:8125 \
    --set connection-type:unencrypted-udp