[user5994461]

If I may ask. How is UDP doing for you?

I checked my graphite setup once. We had 27% of metrics lost over UDP. That was bad.

pro-tip: "netstat -anus" and look at the error counters.

[cheald]

About 4% err-to-received ratio. That's probably due to untuned UDP buffer sizes though; despite dropped packets, we're getting enough information to provide the information we need.