statsd.event() payload is too big (more than 8KB), event discarded

[natasha-aleksandrova]

Describe the bug We are seeing errors when sending an event using statsd.event() as "payload is too big" The event payload itself is very small - from looking at the code this maybe be due to all of the tags that are being appended?

When I see good events in datadog there are a lot of tags that get auto-appended besides just the two custom ones I set (env and application).

Is there any way to control not adding all of the default tags to avoid hitting the max size or anything else can be done to avoid getting into this situation?

Expected behavior Being able to successfully send a very small event to datadog.

Environment and Versions (please complete the following information): python3.9 datadog==0.42.0

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[natasha-aleksandrova]

this is still an issue

[sgnn7]

Hi @natasha-aleksandrova,

Apologies for the delay. The size of the message is directly related to the size of the packet that is being sent. Since the default and additional-to-event tags are appended to the message and those are generally controlled by the user, the general guidance is that you would:

• Reduce the event text/message (or clip it)
• Reduce the number (or size) of event's tags
• Reduce the number (or size) of statsd default tags

8k characters in general is quite enough space for tags and message so I would guess that the event name/text may be overrunning the limit rather than the tags but it really depends on your use case. You should be able to create a new instance of DogStatsd with no default tags to send an event where you want to reduce the default tags.