How to do client authentication in statsD server?

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Here using echo "sample.set:50|s" | nc -u -w0 127.0.0.1 8125 we can send log data to StatsD server. Using this anyone can send the logs to server.

How can I restrict to only predefined client such that those who have already registered can send data to StatsD server?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 10 '18 at 12:56

StatsD can't do such thing since the only thing it should do is metric aggregation.

You can write a customized StatsD proxy, as our team did, to finish things like key-routing, authentication and monitoring.

After that you can use something like iptables to only receive packets from StatsD proxy on your StatsD machine.

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