Chainguard Container for prometheus-statsd-exporter

Minimalist Wolfi-based Prometheus StatsD Exporter image for exporting metrics to StatsD.

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/prometheus-statsd-exporter:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatibility Notes

This image provides a secure, minimal environment for running the Prometheus StatsD Exporter. It maintains functional parity with the upstream prometheus-statsd-exporter image and is compatible with Prometheus and standard StatsD clients. Switching to the Chainguard image should not require changes to your existing Kubernetes setup, provided the StatsD UDP port (default: 9125) and Prometheus metrics endpoint (default: 9102) are correctly configured and accessible.

Getting Started

The easiest way to deploy this image is with the prometheus-statsd-exporter Helm Chart.

You can override the image by setting the following values in a values.yaml file.

image:
  repository: cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/prometheus-statsd-exporter
  tag: "latest"

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard registry.

Then, deploy the prometheus-statsd-exporter using helm

helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm install prometheus-statsd-exporter prometheus-community/prometheus-statsd-exporter -f values.yaml

Check that the pods are running

kubectl get pods -n default
NAME                                          READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
prometheus-statsd-exporter-56cffb4694-52p5x   1/1     Running   0          17m

Also you can check the logs of container

kubectl logs prometheus-statsd-exporter-56cffb4694-52p5x
time=2025-04-15T14:59:38.748Z level=INFO source=main.go:296 msg="Starting StatsD -> Prometheus Exporter" version="(version=0.28.0, branch=HEAD, revision=c0a390a2c43f77863278615b47d46e886bdca726)"
time=2025-04-15T14:59:38.748Z level=INFO source=main.go:297 msg="Build context" context="(go=go1.23.2, platform=linux/amd64, user=root@783240c1e627, date=20241025-13:53:47, tags=unknown)"
time=2025-04-15T14:59:38.748Z level=INFO source=main.go:346 msg="Accepting StatsD Traffic" udp=:9125 tcp=:9125 unixgram=""
time=2025-04-15T14:59:38.748Z level=INFO source=main.go:347 msg="Accepting Prometheus Requests" addr=:9102

Documentation and Resources:

For more information, please refer to the official documentation for StatsD Exporter project.

• Prometheus StatsD Exporter Github Repository
• StatsD Exporter Helm Chart

What are Chainguard Containers?

Chainguard Containers are minimal container images that are secure by default.

In many cases, the Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest contain only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager. Chainguard Containers are built with Wolfi, our Linux undistro designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Containers include:

• Minimal design, without unnecessary software bloat
• Daily builds to ensure container images are up-to-date with available security patches
• High quality build-time SBOMs attesting to the provenance of all artifacts within the image
• Verifiable signatures provided by Sigstore
• Reproducible builds with Cosign and apko (read more about reproducibility)

For cases where you need container images with shells and package managers to build or debug, most Chainguard Containers come paired with a -dev variant.

Although the -dev container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they feature additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to leverage the -dev variants, copying application artifacts into a final minimal container that offers a reduced attack surface that won’t allow package installations or logins.

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