About
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  luastatsd is a lua client library to the etsy/statsd statistics daemon.

  For more info, see :
    * http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-everything/
    * https://github.com/etsy/statsd

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Usage
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To use this library you must first have a statsd server running on your network.  

Before you can use the library it must be initialized with the host and port of 
your statsd server

require 'statsd'

metrics = statsd(host, port)

To record a count of an event:

metrics:recordCount(metric-name, value, frequency)

To time a block of code:

metrics:startTimer(timerName)

... code ...

metrics:stopTimer(timerName)

Then initialize the library with the host and port of your statsd server:

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Copyright
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  This code is Copyright 2012 Zipline Games LLC.

  See the accompanying LICENSE file for use and distribution legalese.

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