etsy/statsd — pull request #213 by NachoSoto (2012-12-17 00:50:55+00:00)
Title: Added "status" metric

For my application I needed a way to keep track of the active number of messages being analyzed in a queue. I needed to add 1 when a process receives a message, and subtract when it's done. Obviously using counters doesn't work for this because they get reset to 0.
For this I added a new metric 'v' that works exactly the same but it's never cleared.

I don't if this will be useful for anyone else or even if the way I implemented it is right (I'm very new to StatsD), but I'm very open to discussion :-)

Note: I also included the commits in #212.