Hosted graphite low-level but elegant feeding

gistfile1.py

from contextlib import contextmanager
import socket
import os


HOSTED_GRAPHITE = ("carbon.hostedgraphite.com", 2003)
API_KEY = "ASDFASDF"
metric_name = "mieciu.head.request"
metric_value = 140


@contextmanager
def tcp_connection_to(*args, **kwargs):
  s = socket.create_connection(*args, **kwargs)
  yield s
  s.close()


def send_metric(name, value):
  with tcp_connection_to(HOSTED_GRAPHITE) as conn:
    conn.send(bytes("{}.{} {}\n".format(API_KEY, name, value), 'UTF-8'))


send_metric(metric_name, metric_value)
send_metric(metric_name, 120)
send_metric("mieciu.head.dummy", 4)

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