Introducing DogStatsD Mapper

Since its introduction by Etsy in 2011, StatsD has been widely used for infrastructure monitoring. However, as teams increasingly rely on containerized microservices, the limitations of StatsD's design have become apparent. One major issue is that it lacks built-in support for tagging metrics with key-value pairs. Datadog has introduced DogStatsD Mapper to address this problem by automatically generating tags for StatsD metrics based on user-configured rules. This tool allows users to convert parts of their StatsD metric names into tags without having to re-instrument their code or run a separate server. By using DogStatsD Mapper, teams can gain more context and insight into different slices of their infrastructure.