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Welcome to Python StatsD's documentation!
=========================================

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

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:Code:          https://github.com/jsocol/pystatsd
:License:       MIT; see LICENSE file
:Issues:        https://github.com/jsocol/pystatsd/issues
:Documentation: http://statsd.readthedocs.org/

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.


Installing
----------

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


Contents
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   configure.rst
   types.rst
   timing.rst
   pipeline.rst
   tcp.rst
   reference.rst
   contributing.rst


Indices and tables
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* :ref:`search`

.. _statsd: https://github.com/etsy/statsd
.. _Graphite: http://graphite.readthedocs.org/