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Statsd being started by Chef is dying. I believe I have isolated the problem away from Chef as the INIT script Chef is calling is doing what it is suppose to. I have turned debug on for statsd and in the log the following is the last messages before dying:

15 Oct 11:17:39 - reading config file: /etc/statsd/config.js
15 Oct 11:17:39 - server is up
15 Oct 11:17:39 - DEBUG: Loading backend: ./backends/graphite

I am absolutely stumped; nothing in /var/log/messages, nothing in the error log. Any idea if statsd requires certain services up and running?

SamA
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StatsD doesn't require any specific services to run. You can also set dumpMessages to true in the config to have it log all messages that are incoming to get a picture of what's happening. Does it send any data to Graphite during the time it's up? If you continue having problems, there is also #statsd on Freenode IRC where a lot of people are idling who know a thing or two about StatsD.

mrtazz
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I had a very similar issue. I found this page very informative. I took only the part to package my statsd with its backends (changed package files a bit) and installed the created package to make it a daemon.

Hope this helps.

yasingedik
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