Simple Django management command to ping graphite on deploy

deploy_notify.py

import socket
import time

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.management.base import NoArgsCommand


class Command(NoArgsCommand):
    help = 'Notify stats on deploy.'

    def handle(self, **options):
        s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
        s.connect((socket.gethostbyname(settings.STATSD_HOST),
                   settings.GRAPHITE_PORT))
        fmt = '%s.deploy 1 %d\n'
        data = fmt % (settings.STATSD_PREFIX, int(time.time()))
        s.send(data)
        s.close()