statsd is a friendly front-end to Graphite. This is a Python client for the statsd daemon.

Quickly, to use:

>>> import statsd >>> c = statsd.StatsClient('localhost', 8125) >>> c.incr('foo') # Increment the 'foo' counter. >>> c.timing('stats.timed', 320) # Record a 320ms 'stats.timed'. 

You can also add a prefix to all your stats:

>>> import statsd >>> c = statsd.StatsClient('localhost', 8125, prefix='foo') >>> c.incr('bar') # Will be 'foo.bar' in statsd/graphite. 

The easiest way to install statsd is with pip!

You can install from PyPI:

$ pip install statsd 

Or GitHub:

$ pip install -e git+https://github.com/jsocol/pystatsd#egg=statsd 

Or from source:

$ git clone https://github.com/jsocol/pystatsd $ cd statsd $ python setup.py install 

There are lots of docs in the docs/ directory and on ReadTheDocs.