copperEgg.py

import pycurl
import os
import socket
from urllib import pathname2url
import json
import urllib2
 
# in this specific case we take an average over two hours of the mean(99) of statsd label named "some.thing.total"
target=pathname2url('summarize(stats.timers.some.thing.total.mean_99,"2hour","avg")')
 
# using hosted graphite's service to get the json. Note the "format=json"
data=urllib2.urlopen('https://www.hostedgraphite.com/account-id/metric-group-id/graphite/render/?from=-2h&target='+target+'&format=json')
stats = json.load(data)
 
# getting the latest data point from the json
my_time = stats[0]['datapoints'][1][0]
URL = "http://api.copperegg.com/v2/revealmetrics/samples/my_time.json"
userPasswd = "XXXXXXXXXXX:U"
 
postdata = {"identifier": "my_server", "timestamp": int(time.time()), "values": {"my_time": my_time}}
c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(c.URL, URL)
c.setopt(c.POST, 1)
c.setopt(c.POSTFIELDS, str(postdata))
c.setopt(c.HTTPHEADER, ["Content-Type: application/json"])
c.setopt(c.HTTPAUTH, c.HTTPAUTH_BASIC)
c.setopt(c.USERPWD, userPasswd)
c.setopt(c.VERBOSE, 1)
try:
  c.perform()
except:
  print "Error performing curl perform"
c.close()