send custom stats to datadog

dd_stats_sender.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from datadog import statsd
import requests
import time

def get_endpoint_status(url):
  response = requests.get(url)
  resp_time_miliseconds = response.elapsed.microseconds / 1000
  result = {'status_code': response.status_code, 'response_time': resp_time_miliseconds}
  return result

increment = 5
while increment > 0:
    stats = get_endpoint_status('https://results-hub.athlinks.com/status/sockets')
    statsd.gauge('stats.response_time.results-hub.prod', stats['response_time'])
    statsd.gauge('stats.status_code.results-hub.prod', stats['status_code'])
    increment -= 1
    time.sleep(10)