[HADOOP-12357] GraphiteSink won't connect to UDP sockets

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.6.0, 2.7.0, 2.7.1
• Component/s: metrics
• Target Version/s: 2.6.1, 2.8.0, 2.7.2
• Assignee: Dave Marion
• Reporter: Dave Marion
• Created: 25/Aug/15 18:59
• Updated: 27/Aug/15 16:57
• Resolved: 27/Aug/15 14:23

Description

The statsd plugin within CollectD listens on a UDP socket. In trying to set this up, I keep getting a connection refused error, and I think the issue is that the current implementation of GraphiteSink only uses a TCP socket.

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-12360 Create StatsD metrics2 sink
• is related to: HADOOP-9704 Write metrics sink plugin for Hadoop/Graphite