Hi Costya,
The simple statsd integration works well for us. There's really not that much code there at all, you can see it in here:
We mostly use it to view a few health metrics in realtime and get alerted when the scheduler stops emitting heartbeats for 5+ minutes.
If it's not working my guess is either your configuration is off or that port isn't open for that box to report to the statsd server.
Max