This isn't really an issue, but I thought it would be useful for users of this project to know. The open source project www.automon.org allows you to use java-statsd-client to monitor any java method (from classes you own, 3rd party classes, or jdk classes). It also monitors any exceptions that are thrown. This is all done declaratively without changing your program.

Here are some examples including one that uses StatsD.

Here is an example of the type of data that can be displayed (using graphite).