erlstatsd is a client implementation of Etsy's brilliant statsd server -- a front end/proxy for the Graphite stats collection and graphing server.
Build it
$ ./rebar compile
Run it
$ erl -pa ebin
1> application:start(erlstatsd).
ok
2> erlstatsd:increment("test.foo.bar").
ok
3> erlstatsd:timing("test.foo.proctime", 51).
ok
Specify options
$ erl -pa ebin -erlstatsd statsd_host '"stats.myhost.net"'
This README file was shamelessly ripped from Steve Ivy's pystatsd project.