transponder v1.1.0

#transponder

Already set up an awesome Graphite/statsd monitoring dashboard for your applications? How about your servers? transponder is a super easy to use node daemon to send linux server stats to an existing statsd process. Just install transponder on all your servers and you're away!

###Install

To install transponder, log in to your server and run:

[sudo] npm install -g transponder

###Usage

To start transponder simply use the transponder command from your terminal. The following options are configurable and set as environment variables:

• HOST - The hostname or IP of the statsd daemon (default is localhost)
• PORT - The port number of the statsd daemon (default is 8125)
• INTERVAL - The sample interval, in milliseconds, desired (default is 1000)
• PREFIX - Optional string to prefix all statsd indices with. Should include a trailing period (default is '').

Example:

HOST=127.0.0.1 PORT=8125 INTERVAL=5000 PREFIX=myprefix. transponder

###Run in the background

You'll probably want this to run in the background, the easiest way to do this is using nohup:

HOST=127.0.0.1 nohup transponder &