# How do I get statsd to increment a number **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [October 25, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-get-statsd-to-increment-a-number/63826 "2016-10-25T06:27:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sam\_Saffron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sam_saffron/32/44937_2.png) [@Sam\_Saffron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_Saffron)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-get-statsd-to-increment-a-number/63826/1 "2016-10-25T06:27:15Z")
I have an output rule for statsd ```auto statsd { host => "graphite-statsd" port => 8125 namespace => "" sender => "%{backend_name}" increment => [ "%{http_status_code}" ] } ``` this used to work great, but recently we upgraded logstash and it complains you can not increment a integer. I can make this work by changing `"%{http_status_code}"` to `"{http_status_code}X"` however by adding the X I am corrupting my existing counters. What can I do to make `%{https_status_code}` be treated as a string and not a number? ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-get-statsd-to-increment-a-number/63826/2 "2016-10-25T06:55:11Z")
What's the exact error message? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Saffron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sam_saffron/32/44937_2.png) [@Sam\_Saffron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_Saffron)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 7:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-get-statsd-to-increment-a-number/63826/3 "2016-10-25T07:32:23Z")
```auto NoMethodError: undefined method `gsub' for 200:Fixnum build_stat at /opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-output-statsd-2.0.7/lib/logstash/outputs/statsd.rb:138 receive at /opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-output-statsd-2.0.7/lib/logstash/outputs/statsd.rb:113 each at org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1613 receive at /opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-output-statsd-2.0.7/lib/logstash/outputs/statsd.rb:112 multi_receive at /opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-2.3.4-java/lib/logstash/outputs/base.rb:83 each at org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1613 multi_receive at /opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-2.3.4-java/lib/logstash/outputs/base.rb:83 worker_multi_receive at /opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-2.3.4-java/lib/logstash/output_delegator.rb:130 multi_receive at /opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-2.3.4-java/lib/logstash/output_delegator.rb:114 output_batch at /opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-2.3.4-java/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:301 each at org/jruby/RubyHash.java:1342 output_batch at /opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-2.3.4-java/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:301 worker_loop at /opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-2.3.4-java/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:232 start_workers at /opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-2.3.4-java/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:201 ``` ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Saffron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sam_saffron/32/44937_2.png) [@Sam\_Saffron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_Saffron)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 7:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-get-statsd-to-increment-a-number/63826/4 "2016-10-25T07:39:29Z")
probably changing: > to ```auto metric = metric.to_s.gsub('::','.').gsub(RESERVED_CHARACTERS_REGEX, '_') ``` will do the trick, but then I have to patch the plugin. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Saffron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sam_saffron/32/44937_2.png) [@Sam\_Saffron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_Saffron)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-get-statsd-to-increment-a-number/63826/5 "2016-10-25T07:44:50Z")
FWIW I think this PR would fix it: > ---
**Author:** ![jsvd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsvd/32/6203_2.png) [@jsvd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsvd)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-get-statsd-to-increment-a-number/63826/6 "2016-10-25T09:04:54Z")
another option is to add a field that is a string version of http\_status\_code, like: ```auto mutate { add_field => { "http_status_code_string" => "%{http_status_code}" } } mutate { convert => { "number" => "http_status_code" } } ``` ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Saffron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sam_saffron/32/44937_2.png) [@Sam\_Saffron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_Saffron)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-get-statsd-to-increment-a-number/63826/7 "2016-10-25T09:17:27Z")
I see, if I do that how to I avoid shipping it to elastic? ---
**Author:** ![jsvd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsvd/32/6203_2.png) [@jsvd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsvd)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-get-statsd-to-increment-a-number/63826/8 "2016-10-25T09:22:37Z")
ah you have other outputs, then nevermind, you'd have to disable dynamic mapping on ES to ignore new fields ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-get-statsd-to-increment-a-number/63826/9 "2017-07-06T04:32:53Z")