Sending statsD metrics with tags from python client

Question

I'm trying to send metrics to graphite from my python app through statsD, I'm using this client (which I understand is most common).

But I can't figure out how to send metrics with tags.

I've tried this syntax (from here):

c.incr('foo.bar,tag1=val')

And also this (got the idea from here):

c.incr('foo.bar;tag1=val')

But nothing seem to work.

Did anyone succeeded sending statsd metrics from python with tags?

Thanks

Answer 1

UPDATE:

It seems all you need to do now is to install:

pip install statsd-telegraf

See here

Works as expected

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To send tags from python statsD you need to install this fork:

https://pypi.org/project/statsd-telegraf/

But, two important notes:

1. Do NOT install from PyPI alone, it has an unfixed bug

    BAD: pip install statsd-tags

After installing from PyPI, Install directly from GitHub, using the correct username (In the PyPI link above, the wrong link is shown)

    GOOD: pip install statsd-tags
          pip install -e git+https://github.com/Granitosaurus/statsd-telegraf#egg=statsd-telegraf

2. The documentation in PyPI of how to use the tags is wrong.

Tags should be a dict. For example:

    import statsd
    c = statsd.StatsClient('localhost', 8125, prefix='foo')
    c.incr('bar', tags = {"key1": "value1", "key2":"value2"})