Configure statsd server for zap in docker

MERIEM MELLOUS

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Jun 18, 2025, 4:30:05 AMJun 18

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Hello !

How to configure Zap docker in order to enable statsd server ?

My configuration is the following but It is not working. When I check via the Zap API /JSON/stats/view/optionStatsdEnabled/?apikey=<<<myapikey>> I get:

{"StatsdEnabled":"false"}

dialogs.stats.statsd.enabled=true
dialogs.stats.statsd.hostname=172.17.0.1 ( local telegraf container)
dialogs.stats.statsd.port=8125
dialogs.stats.statsd.prefix=zap

Simon Bennetts

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Jun 19, 2025, 11:43:39 AMJun 19

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Let me guess, you asked an LLM?

They are very bad at details I'm afraid.

See this FAQ https://www.zaproxy.org/faq/how-do-you-find-out-what-key-to-use-to-set-a-config-value-on-the-command-line/

You will also need to make sure ZAP can contact the statsd server from within the docker container.

Cheers,

Simon

MERIEM MELLOUS

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Jun 19, 2025, 12:17:24 PMJun 19

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Hello Simon!

I have configured a telegraf docker container to collect data from zap. When I am in GUI mode it works fine. I get all the zap internal stats.The problem is that I don't know the exact key for statsd configuration to put in my zap config file for my zap docker. I don't know if it is dialogs.stats.statsd.enabled=true for example or just statsd.enabled=true ( to enable statsd). I am following the Zap documentation https://www.zaproxy.org/docs/desktop/ui/dialogs/options/stats/.

Can you give me the exact keys for the configuration please.

Thank you for your response !

Meriem

Simon Bennetts

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Jun 20, 2025, 4:48:59 AMJun 20

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Hi Meriem,

See https://www.zaproxy.org/faq/how-do-you-find-out-what-key-to-use-to-set-a-config-value-on-the-command-line/

I dont know the exact keys off hand, so thats how I would find them. You can do that yourself :)

Cheers,

Simon

MERIEM MELLOUS

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Jun 20, 2025, 10:06:46 AMJun 20

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Hello Simon,

thanks for the response.

I got the correct keys. I ll keep the answer here in case anyone needs to configure statsd server for a zap docker container in order to collect zap metrics.

stats.statsd.enabled=true
stats.statsd.host=<<IP>>
stats.statsd.port=<<PORT>>
stats.statsd.prefix=<<EXTENSION>>

Cheers,

Meriem

Simon Bennetts

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Jun 23, 2025, 4:26:31 AMJun 23

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Good to hear its working for you Mariem!

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