Post event on graphite using python as a client

create_graphite_event.py

# more about graphite events at http://obfuscurity.com/2014/01/Graphite-Tip-A-Better-Way-to-Store-Events

import json
import requests

def create_graphite_event(event_description, tags):
  required_data = "Graphite needs SSD!" # I tried withouth data attribute and it didn't work
  tags_string = " ".join(str(x) for x in tags)  # Since you will pass an array but graphite expects multi tags like "a,b,c" or "a b c"
  event = {"what": event_description, "tags": tags_string, "data": required_data}
  try:
    requests.post("http://localhost/events/", data=json.dumps(event), timeout=1)
  except Exception as e:
    print 'Error while creating graphite event:', e
    
    
#usage

create_graphite_event("deploy", ["v0.1.2", "angular_introduced", "profile_microservice"])