Standalone estatsd server
Get rebar (may be included in package for future releases). From a command line, execute:
/path/to/rebar get-deps clean compile generate
This will generate a folder in the release directory called 'estatsd'. At this point you can use make_deb.sh to build a debian package for service installation, or you can simply copy the newly created directory to your target system.
If you simply copied the directory to your target system:
/path/to/estatsd/bin/estatsd start
If installed using a debian generated by make_deb.sh, many linux systems will support:
service estatsd start
If your system does not support 'service', you can use the init.d script directly:
/etc/init.d/estatsd start