Implements the abstract Handler class, sending data to statsd. This is a UDP service, sending datagrams. They may be lost. It's OK.

• python-statsd
• statsd v0.1.1 or newer.

Enable this handler

• handlers = diamond.handler.stats_d.StatsdHandler

The handler file is named an odd stats_d.py because of an import issue with having the python library called statsd and this handler's module being called statsd, so we use an odd name for this handler. This doesn't affect the usage of this handler.