Change default statsd packet size to 1500, make configurable

Also modifying the internal UDP listener/parser code to make it able to
handle higher load. The udp listener will no longer do any parsing or
string conversion. It will simply read UDP packets as bytes and put them
into a channel. The parser thread will now deal with splitting the UDP
metrics into separated strings.

This could probably be made even better by leaving everything as byte
arrays.

fixes #543

plugins/inputs/statsd/statsd.go

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
 )
 
+const UDP_PACKET_SIZE int = 1500
+
 var dropwarn = "ERROR: Message queue full. Discarding line [%s] " +
 	"You may want to increase allowed_pending_messages in the config\n"
 
@@ -37,10 +39,14 @@ type Statsd struct {
 	DeleteTimings  bool
 	ConvertNames   bool
 
+	// UDPPacketSize is the size of the read packets for the server listening
+	// for statsd UDP packets. This will default to 1500 bytes.
+	UDPPacketSize int `toml:"udp_packet_size"`
+
 	sync.Mutex
 
-	// Channel for all incoming statsd messages
-	in   chan string
+	// Channel for all incoming statsd packets
+	in   chan []byte
 	done chan struct{}
 
 	// Cache gauges, counters & sets so they can be aggregated as they arrive
@@ -58,13 +64,14 @@ func NewStatsd() *Statsd {
 
 	// Make data structures
 	s.done = make(chan struct{})
-	s.in = make(chan string, s.AllowedPendingMessages)
+	s.in = make(chan []byte, s.AllowedPendingMessages)
 	s.gauges = make(map[string]cachedgauge)
 	s.counters = make(map[string]cachedcounter)
 	s.sets = make(map[string]cachedset)
 	s.timings = make(map[string]cachedtimings)
 
 	s.ConvertNames = true
+	s.UDPPacketSize = UDP_PACKET_SIZE
 
 	return &s
 }
@@ -139,6 +146,10 @@ const sampleConfig = `
   # calculation of percentiles. Raising this limit increases the accuracy
   # of percentiles but also increases the memory usage and cpu time.
   percentile_limit = 1000
+
+  # UDP packet size for the server to listen for. This will depend on the size
+  # of the packets that the client is sending, which is usually 1500 bytes.
+  udp_packet_size = 1500
 `
 
 func (_ *Statsd) SampleConfig() string {
@@ -191,7 +202,7 @@ func (s *Statsd) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
 func (s *Statsd) Start() error {
 	// Make data structures
 	s.done = make(chan struct{})
-	s.in = make(chan string, s.AllowedPendingMessages)
+	s.in = make(chan []byte, s.AllowedPendingMessages)
 	s.gauges = make(map[string]cachedgauge)
 	s.counters = make(map[string]cachedcounter)
 	s.sets = make(map[string]cachedset)
@@ -220,38 +231,39 @@ func (s *Statsd) udpListen() error {
 		case <-s.done:
 			return nil
 		default:
-			buf := make([]byte, 1024)
+			buf := make([]byte, s.UDPPacketSize)
 			n, _, err := listener.ReadFromUDP(buf)
 			if err != nil {
 				log.Printf("ERROR: %s\n", err.Error())
 			}
 
-			lines := strings.Split(string(buf[:n]), "\n")
-			for _, line := range lines {
-				line = strings.TrimSpace(line)
-				if line != "" {
 			select {
-					case s.in <- line:
+			case s.in <- buf[:n]:
 			default:
-						log.Printf(dropwarn, line)
-					}
-				}
+				log.Printf(dropwarn, string(buf[:n]))
 			}
 		}
 	}
 }
 
-// parser monitors the s.in channel, if there is a line ready, it parses the
-// statsd string into a usable metric struct and aggregates the value
+// parser monitors the s.in channel, if there is a packet ready, it parses the
+// packet into statsd strings and then calls parseStatsdLine, which parses a
+// single statsd metric into a struct.
 func (s *Statsd) parser() error {
 	for {
 		select {
 		case <-s.done:
 			return nil
-		case line := <-s.in:
+		case packet := <-s.in:
+			lines := strings.Split(string(packet), "\n")
+			for _, line := range lines {
+				line = strings.TrimSpace(line)
+				if line != "" {
 					s.parseStatsdLine(line)
 				}
 			}
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 // parseStatsdLine will parse the given statsd line, validating it as it goes.
@@ -499,6 +511,9 @@ func (s *Statsd) Stop() {
 
 func init() {
 	inputs.Add("statsd", func() inputs.Input {
-		return &Statsd{ConvertNames: true}
+		return &Statsd{
+			ConvertNames:  true,
+			UDPPacketSize: UDP_PACKET_SIZE,
+		}
 	})
 }