Really nice! We definitely need to put together a team who really cares about the operations side of the network and this is a fantastic start.

It'd be nice if you didn't assume knowledge of what statsd is out of the box. Given the name I'd assumed it was a small UNIX daemon but it seems it's actually a Javascript thingy?

It looks like putting together a monitored bitcoind setup can be quite a lot of work. I wonder if there are ways to simplify it. For example, would it make sense for someone to run a community statsd and graphite instance, so we can get aggregate statistics across many nodes and the node operators don't have to set everything up themselves? Does that make any sense?