I just deployed StatsD together with Graphite and Carbon according to http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-everything/ .

Seems to work nice so far, havent finetuned it so much yet though. Although, I didnt find a decent init-script for StatsD and Debian, so I modified one for RHEL found at https://gist.github.com/1071989 to this Debianized one: https://gist.github.com/1326359 I guess it would also work with ubuntu with minor tweaks(if any).