Readme example to delete a counter from shell

draco2003 · Feb 9, 2013 · 6a36177 · 6a36177
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 Each backend will also publish a set of statistics, prefixed by its
 module name.
 
+You can use this to delete buckets no longer in use. For example, if you were hosting statsd at 10.10.10.10:
+
+    #to delete counter sandbox.test.temporary
+    echo "delcounters sandbox.test.temporary" | nc 10.10.10.10 8126
+
 Graphite:
 
 * graphite.last_flush: the number of seconds elapsed since the last successful