Netdata: configuring statsd when using docker

[roik7]

Hello,
First of all thank you very for this awesome project! I read a lot of the documentation and issues in the last few days and it shows that there is a lot of support.

I'm trying to send custom metrics from my app and have been struggling with sending statsd metrics to netdata running in docker.
The docker command is:

sudo docker run -d --name=netdata \ 
  -p 19999:19999 \
  -p  8125:8125/udp \ 
  -p 8125:8125/tcp \
  -v /proc:/host/proc:ro \
  -v /sys:/host/sys:ro \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
  -v /etc/netdata/netdata.conf:/etc/netdata/netdata.conf
  --cap-add SYS_PTRACE \
  --security-opt apparmor=unconfined \
  netdata/netdata

In the netdata.conf file I set the statsd plugin according to the wiki (https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/statsd.plugin/#sending-statsd-metrics-from-shell-scripts):

[global]
    hostname = <hostname>
    history = 8640  # 24 hours - 8640 samples every 10 sec
    update every = 10
    memory mode = save

[plugins]
    enable running new plugins = no
    proc = yes
    python.d = no
    apps = no

[statsd]
    enabled = yes
    decimal detail = 1000
    update every (flushInterval) = 1
    udp messages to process at once = 10
    create private charts for metrics matching = *
    max private charts allowed = 200
    max private charts hard limit = 1000
    private charts memory mode = save
    private charts history = 3996
    histograms and timers percentile (percentThreshold) = 95.00000
    add dimension for number of events received = yes
    gaps on gauges (deleteGauges) = no
    gaps on counters (deleteCounters) = no
    gaps on meters (deleteMeters) = no
    gaps on sets (deleteSets) = no
    gaps on histograms (deleteHistograms) = no
    gaps on timers (deleteTimers) = no
    listen backlog = 4096
    default port = 8125
    bind to = udp:localhost:8125 tcp:localhost:8125

[plugin:proc]
    netdata server resources = no
    /proc/stat = yes
    /proc/uptime = yes
    /proc/loadavg = no
    /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail = no
    /proc/interrupts = no
    /proc/softirqs = no
    /proc/vmstat = no
    /proc/meminfo = yes
    /sys/kernel/mm/ksm = no
    /sys/devices/system/edac/mc = no
    /sys/devices/system/node = no
    /proc/net/dev = yes
    /proc/net/sockstat = yes
    /proc/net/sockstat6 = yes
    /proc/net/netstat = no
    /proc/net/snmp = no
    /proc/net/snmp6 = no
    /proc/net/sctp/snmp = no
    /proc/net/softnet_stat = no
    /proc/net/ip_vs/stats = no
    /proc/net/stat/conntrack = no
    /proc/net/stat/synproxy = no
    /proc/diskstats = no
    /proc/net/rpc/nfsd = no
    /proc/net/rpc/nfs = no
    /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats = no
    /sys/fs/btrfs = no
    ipc = no

[plugin:cgroups]
    enable systemd services = no

[plugin:proc:/proc/stat]
    per cpu core utilization = no
    cpu idle states = no

In order to send stats I use a python statsd client: statsd==3.3.0

I don't get any error in the code but when checking if stats were added under :19999/api/v1/allmetrics I see they weren't

When I tried running netdata locally without docker it worked and stats were received.

Not sure what I'm missing here, any help would be greatly appreciated

[roik7]

solved by changing binding config to:

[statsd]
bind to = udp:0.0.0.0:8125 tcp:0.0.0.0:8125