cloudgraph

Cloudgraph is a minimal interface for CloudWatch and Carbon/Graphite. Requires boto.
The approach of chaining, manipulating metrics prior to submitting is chosen over piping output directly to netcat. Set intervals in your script and have Upstart or equivalent look out for it.

Usage

import cloudgraph
with CloudGraph(method="pickle",
                namespace="default") as cg:
                
    end = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
    start = end - datetime.timedelta(minutes=5)

    cg.get_metrics("HTTPStatus", dimension="foo", alt_dimension="bar") 
    cg.query_metrics(start, end, "Average", unit="Seconds")

Optionally, manipulate stored data in cg.response. Then:

cg.send_pickle()