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+# What is StatsD?
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+StatsD is a front-end proxy for the Graphite/Carbon metrics server,
+originally written by Etsy's Erik Kastner. It is based on ideas from
+Flickr and this post by Cal Henderson: Counting and Timing. The
+server was written in Node, though there have been implementations
+in other languages since then.