Easy wrapper to push stuff to graphite

python27_graphite.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
import time
import random
import socket

def main():
    dic = {}
    for i in range(1,10):
        dic['key_'+str(i)] = random.randint(1, 100000)
    return dic

if __name__ == "__main__":
    while True:
        dict = main()
        message = ''
        for k, v in dict.iteritems():
            message += 'python.%s %d %d\n' % (k, int(v), int(time.time()))
        if message:
            print '# payload:\n'+message
            sock = socket.socket()
            sock.connect(('127.0.0.1', 2003))
            sock.sendall(message)
            sock.close()
        time.sleep(60)