Faktory server won't start without statsd server

[alondahari]

• Which Faktory package and version? 1.6.1
• Which Faktory worker package and version? node faktory-worker 4.5.1

We have a Faktory pro server deployed on Kubernetes. We configured the server to send statsd metrics to a server in the cluster, but that server failed to start up in our production environment. As a result, the Faktory server failed to start up which led to an outage of our platform until we figured out the issue.

Since sending metrics to statsd is probably not mission critical, it would probably be better to log the issue and continue booting up, instead of a complete failure.

[mperham]

Faktory server failed to start up

Show me the error.

[alondahari]

Sorry for the delay. There's actually no error that I can find, the pod is just going into a podCrashLoopBackOff, saying it's completed with exit code 0.

The logs from the pod:

[mperham]

Upgrade and see if that fixes things.

[alondahari]

Looks like the node faktory client is only compatible with 1.6.1, or at least that's what the docs say

[mperham]

I doubt that. If true, I would hope they'd open an issue so we can improve the situation.