Node.js StatsD Client (Legacy)

This entry describes `node-statsd`, a client library for sending metrics to a StatsD server from Node.js applications. The specific version provided, 0.1.1, is exceptionally old, predating the 1.0.0 release. The package allows sending common StatsD metric types such as timings, increments, decrements, histograms, and gauges over UDP. It offers basic configuration for host, port, prefix, suffix, and optional global tags. Due to its age (last significant update over 7 years ago, with the provided version being even older), this client is considered largely abandoned. Modern Node.js applications should consider more actively maintained alternatives like `hot-shots` or `statsd-client` which offer broader compatibility, better error handling, and more features. The release cadence for this specific package is effectively non-existent.