Building Statsd

Building Statsd

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build Statsd version 0.8.1 on Linux on IBM Z for the following distributions:

• RHEL (7.4, 7.5, 7.6)
• SLES (12 SP3, 15)
• Ubuntu (16.04, 18.04)

General Notes:

• When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified

• A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writable directory anywhere you'd like to place it

Step 1: Install the Dependencies

• RHEL (7.4, 7.5, 7.6)

    sudo yum install -y git wget tar unzip hostname make gcc-c++
  

• SLES (12 SP3, 15)

    sudo zypper install -y git wget tar unzip python make gcc-c++
  

• Ubuntu (16.04, 18.04)

    sudo apt-get install -y git wget tar unzip hostname python g++ make
  

• Install Nodejs

   cd /<source_root>/
   wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.12.2/node-v6.12.2-linux-s390x.tar.gz
   tar -xvf node-v6.12.2-linux-s390x.tar.gz
   export PATH=$PATH:/<source_root>/node-v6.12.2-linux-s390x/bin
   node -v

Step 2: Build and install Statsd

• Download Statsd source code

   cd /<source_root>/
   git clone https://github.com/etsy/statsd.git
   cd statsd
   git checkout v0.8.1
  

• Build Statsd

    npm install
  

Step 3: Testing (Optional)

• Run test cases

 cd /<source_root>/statsd/
./run_tests.sh

Step 4: Run Statsd daemon

 cd /<source_root>/statsd
 node stats.js /path/to/config

References:

https://github.com/etsy/statsd