graphite-client

Node.js client for Graphite

##Install
``
$ npm install graphite-client
`

Usage


###Create instance
`js
var Graphite = require('graphite-client');

var graphite = new Graphite(serverHost, 2003, 'UTF-8', 3000, function() {
log.info("Graphite server connection timeout");
});
`
The client tries to reconnect on connection timeout

###Listen fot the underline socket events
`js
graphite.on('end', function() {
log.info('Graphite client disconnected');
});

graphite.on('error', function(error) {
log.info('Graphite connection failure. ' + error);
});
`

###Connect to the graphite server
`js
graphite.connect(function() { //'connect' listener
log.info('Connected to Graphite server');
});
`

###Write to the server
`js
var metrics = {
'pre1' : {
'pre2' : {
'key1' : 'value1',
'key2' : 'value2',
},
},
'key3' : 'value3'
};

graphite.write(metrics, Date.now(), function(err) {
log.warn("Failed to write metrics to metrics server. err: " + err)
});
`
Assuming the current time is Jul 13 2015 00:00:00 UTC (1436745600 in sec Unix Epoch Time) The folliwng data will be send to the server
`
pre1.pre2.key1 value1 1436745600
pre1.pre2.key2 value2 1436745600
key3 value3 1436745600
``