ExVmstats

An Elixir package for pushing Erlang VM stats into StatsD, based on ferd/vmstats.

Installation

1. Add ex_vmstats to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

```elixir
def deps do
  [{:ex_vmstats, "~> 0.0.1"}]
end
```

2. Ensure ex_vmstats is started before your application:

```elixir
def application do
  [applications: [:ex_vmstats]]
end
```

Dependencies

Your project must include ExStatsD, unless you use a custom backend. (See configuration options below.)

Configuration

Configure ExVmstats using Mix.Config, normally somewhere in config/:

use Mix.Config

config :ex_vmstats,
  namespace: "vm_stats",
  backend: :ex_statsd,
  interval: 3000,
  use_histogram: false,
  sched_time: false,
  append_hostname: false

Defaults are shown. The configuration options are:

• namespace: This will be prepended to all metrics sent by ExVmStats, but will follow the ExStatsD namespace (if applicable).

• backend: Out of the box, the only supported backend is ExStatsD. A custom backend module may be identified here. Backend modules must define the functions &timer/2, &counter/2, and one or both of &gauge/2 and &histogram/2. The arguments passed to each are (value, metric).

• interval: The number of milliseconds to wait between VM stats deliveries.

• use_histogram: Use histograms instead of gauges. For use with Datadog's DogStatD.

• sched_time: Enable reporting of Erlang scheduler_wall_time statistics (if available). For more information, see the section dealing with scheduler_wall_time here.