wsgi-statsd documentation

wsgi_statsd is a WSGI middleware that provides an easy way to time all requests. Integration is as easy as just wrapping your existing wsgi application.

Usage

In your wsgi.py file wrap your WSGI application as follows:

import statsd
from wsgi_statsd import StatsdTimingMiddleware


def application(environ, start_response):
    response_body = 'The request method was %s' % environ['REQUEST_METHOD']
    status = '200 OK'
    response_headers = [('Content-Type', 'text/plain'),
                        ('Content-Length', str(len(response_body)))]

    start_response(status, response_headers)

    return [response_body]

client = statsd.StatsClient(
    prefix='your_prefix',
    host='your_host',
    port=8125
)

application = StatsdTimingMiddleware(application, client)

application = StatsdTimingMiddleware(application, client, time_exceptions=True)

What it does

wsgi-statsd uses the statsd timer function, generates a key and sets the amount of time the request took as the value. The key is constructed as follows:

<statsd-client-prefix>.<separator-joined-path>.<request-method>.<response-code>.<exception-name>

Using the foo prefix, in your statsd client, and calling the www.spam.com/bar/test/ page will result in foo .bar_test.GET.200 having a value equal to the time it took to handle the request.

If you passed time_exceptions=True and any exception occurs during the response, then the key name will be postfixed with the exception class name: foo.bar_test.GET.500.ValueError.

Customizing for your needs

It's possible to customize the way wsgi_statsd generates the key and/or time. StatsdTimingMiddleware has send_stats and get_key_name which you can override:

class CustomStatsdMiddleware(StatsdTimingMiddleware):

    def get_key_name(self, environ, response_interception):
        return super(self, CustomStatsdMiddleware).get_key_name(environ, response_interception) + '.' + environ['Transfer-Encoding']


    def send_stats(self, start, environ, response_interception):
        super(self, CustomStatsdMiddleware).send_stats(start + 10, environ, response_interception)

wsgi-statsd uses underscores as a separator for the path part of the key that is sent to statsd as that makes it easy to retrieve the data from graphite. You can override this default by passing a separator value to the middleware constructor:

StatsdTimingMiddleware(application, client, separator='.')

Contact

If you have questions, bug reports, suggestions, etc. please create an issue on the GitHub project page.

License

This software is licensed under the MIT license.

Please refer to the license file.

© 2015 Wouter Lansu, Paylogic International and others.