This is how I scaled StatsD at SoundCloud (without having to change client code) before we switched to Prometheus: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12871642/

This is how I scaled StatsD at SoundCloud (without having to change client code) before we switched to Prometheus: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12871642/scaling-statsd-with-multiple-servers http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12871642/scaling-statsd-w... (the first answer)