dothebart

It should be mentioned that there is a huge bunch of various implementations of the statsd pattern; depending on ones existing infrastructure one may prefer one or the other. Heres a comprehensive list of them: http://www.joemiller.me/2011/09/21/list-of-statsd-server-imp...

I very much like the way in which metrics 2.0 enhances the duett of collectd and graphite ( http://metrics20.org/ ) See the amazing video how you can select across the data in the cluster of dieterbe's employer.

if you use collectd to feed values into graphite, you've got the advantage of its bulk writes. This article describes how its solved for rrd only collectd installations: https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Inside_the_RRDtool_plugi... but the effect also becomes visible if you use it to send values to graphite.

Its also good in reducing the amount of data you need to send to graphite.

I've used collectd's tail module for this. See https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Tail for details.

Yes, compared to what IRC was in the 90'ies - definitely. In the age of DLS the then common ping floods aren't as effective anymore ;-) While I'm idling about there in several channels like #citadel, it has become quiet there, and non technical channels seem to die out. I guess IRC has to less XML inside to be hip or commercialy supported nowadays. we'll see how long irssi keeps working ;-)

one of the best things C has to offer was omitted herein - the preprocessor ;-)