Standardize tag syntax

[mcandre]

InfluxDB and Datadog both extended the statsd format to include tags, but each did so with their own special separator syntax (comma , vs. colon :).

Could the official statsd fork come back to live and promote a standard tagging syntax?

[wooparadog]

+1

Since graphite now supports tags(http://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tags.html), it is quite the time to do so.

[cobbr2]

Note SignalFX picked yet a different syntax including both brackets and commas. "Jane, stop this crazy thing!"

[BlueHatbRit]

Hey thanks for bumping this, the project is sort of back to life now (mostly just me). I'd be keen to explore this, but one of the good things about statsd is that the bucket names are very flexible and can be used in a myriad of ways. If someone has an idea of a proposal with some reasons as to why we might choose to push a standard, I'd be up for discussing it.

A PR of a markdown document into /docs would be a good way to go, or submitting it to this issue.

[yifeikong]

Any updates on this?

[BlueHatbRit]

@yifeikong as I mentioned in my previous comment, if someone wants to put together a proposal I'd be happy to review and add my thoughts. Until that happens, I don't see much progress being made here. Right now I don't have any specific feelings a direction we standardise with, and if we did choose to do so we'd be looking at a potentially breaking change which isn't ideal.

As mentioned previously, if someone has ideas they'd like to share then a PR with a draft document would be a great place to start.