etsy/statsd — pull request #154 by mjr5749 (2012-09-14 16:14:32+00:00)
Title: Relax metric name sanitation based on a configuration flag

This is not a general fix for https://github.com/etsy/statsd/issues/110, but it does provide a way to accomplish one of the use cases described in the issue:

> For example, in the case of the Librato backend we would like a way to specify a
> custom source parameter on a stat by stat basis. One thought would be to use a
> prefix character, like (/), to separate the source name from the metric name

This flag can be used in conjunction with this patch to the librato-statsd-backend:
https://github.com/librato/statsd-librato-backend/pull/8