[inputs.statsd] Splitting '|', unable to parse metric

[sahilpaudel-pe]

Telegraf.conf

[[inputs.statsd]]
protocol = "tcp"
max_tcp_connections = 250
tcp_keep_alive = false
service_address = ":8125"

[[inputs.statsd]]
protocol = "udp"
max_tcp_connections = 250
tcp_keep_alive = false
service_address = ":8125"

[[inputs.socket_listener]]
data_format = "influx"

Error message

[inputs.statsd] Splitting '|', unable to parse metric: http.request.200.count:1|c|@1.0|#method:GET,handler:statuscontroller_status,env:dev,service:carbon

I am sending the metric from elixir application.

[montanaflynn]

Related to issue #4495, the problem is the tag contains :, if you figure out how to fix this please let me know!

[JeffAshton]

Just learned that you have to set

datadog_extensions = true

In order to parse the tags.

[iamatsundere]

Did anyone solve that, I am facing this issue too

[sahilpaudel-pe]

I have formatted as below to make it work

def format_tags(tags) when is_list(tags) do
    tags
    |> Enum.join(",")
  end

  def generate_http_tags(conn) do
    controller = conn.private[:phoenix_controller] 
                  |> Atom.to_string
                  |> String.split(".") 
                  |> List.last 
                  |> String.downcase

    action =  conn.private[:phoenix_action] 
              |> Atom.to_string
              |> String.replace(":","")

    tag1 = "method=#{conn.method}"
    tag2 = "handler=#{controller}_#{action}"
    tag3 = "env=#{Application.get_env(:my_app, :env_vars)[:mix_env]}"
    tag4 = "service=my_app"

    [tag1, tag2, tag3, tag4]
  end

  def concat_prefix_tags(tags, prefix) do
    prefix <> ","
      |> Kernel.<>(tags)
  end

  def send_http_metrics(conn, prefix, "increment", value) do
    conn
      |> generate_http_tags
      |> format_tags
      |> concat_prefix_tags(prefix)
      |> StatsD.send_increment(value)
  end

[powersj]

As @JeffAshton pointed out, it appears that these stats examples are using DataDog's datagram format:

<METRIC_NAME>:<VALUE>|<TYPE>|@<SAMPLE_RATE>|#<TAG_KEY_1>:<TAG_VALUE_1>,<TAG_2>

Therefore, your Telegraf config will need to include the datadog_extensions = true option.

If someone has an example input value that is still seeing issues even with this configuraiton value enabled, please do feel free to include that here, along with your Telegraf configuration so that we are able to reproduce the issue. As such, I am going to close this.