I don't think it makes much sense to have the recipes install a statsd server. We're already running one on our infrastructure and Enterprise Chef ships with [estatsd](https://github.com/RJ/estatsd).

We should only need to configure the host and port that we send statsd data to, and maybe an optional prefix you can configure (so people could put in `"myorg_#{node.chef_environment}_supermarket" to route metrics correctly) if the client you're using supports that. If any of these are not correct it doesn't matter since it's UDP.