# StatsD Receiver

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> OpenTelemetry Collector receiver · contrib distribution

StatsD receiver for ingesting StatsD messages(https://github.com/statsd/statsd/blob/master/docs/metric_types.md) into the OpenTelemetry Collector. Note: This receiver does not support horizontally scaled collector deployments. It is intended to run in agent mode, where a single collector instance receives StatsD input.

- **Component ID**: `contrib-statsdreceiver`
- **Name**: `statsdreceiver`
- **Type**: receiver
- **Distribution**: contrib
- **Repository**: `opentelemetry-collector-contrib`

## Stability

| Level | Signals |
| --- | --- |
| beta | metrics |

## Internal telemetry

| Metric | Type | Value type | Unit | Stability | Enabled | Attributes | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `receiver_received_statsd_metrics` | sum (monotonic) | int | 1 | development | yes |  | Number of statsd metrics received. |

## Data

- **JSON (latest)**: [/data/collector/components/contrib-statsdreceiver/latest.json](/data/collector/components/contrib-statsdreceiver/latest.json)
- **JSON (pinned)**: [/data/collector/components/contrib-statsdreceiver/contrib-statsdreceiver-6e18bcd55733.json](/data/collector/components/contrib-statsdreceiver/contrib-statsdreceiver-6e18bcd55733.json)
- **Explore**: [/collector/components/contrib/statsdreceiver](/collector/components/contrib/statsdreceiver)