NOTE: From here
Etsy’s great post about tracking every release and has some good tips about tracking releases with statsd and graphite (including some essential graphite config tweaks). I was wondering how to do this from within a shell script, and I had to dig through lots of StatsD code and examples to find this snippet. I forget where I eventually found it, and thought it’d make it easier to find.
Deploy scripts are just one place where a concise and safe way to record a metric/event in important. From Etsy’s blog, using vertical lines to represent distinct events (code deployments) to give more context to the login trends:
Sending a metric from the command line, with netcat or curl, is just one bit of ‘glue’ that is essential for pulling t