v0.9: Added metric reporting and status command

 * Added ability to report various image metrics to a StatsD server
 * Added various timing metrics, which get sent to both StatsD
   and included in the Dirpy-Data reponse header
 * Added 'status' command to permit health checking of the daemon
 * Various small optimizations

README.md

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ A few of Dirpy's more interesting capabilities include:
   * Saving output images to disk (useful when acting as a LRU image cache)
   * JPEG ICC profile support
   * Running in a standalone configuration or via UWSGI
+  * Ability to report statistics to a StatsD daemon
 
 A full list of Dirpy's commands and their options is available in the 
 [Dirpy API Guide](https://github.com/redfin/dirpy/blob/master/docs/api.md).

conf/dirpy.conf

@@ -81,6 +81,24 @@
 
 #allow_overwrite=false
 
+## statsd_server: The DNS/IP of your StatsD server.  If set, this enables
+## statsd reporting of various metrics.
+## default: None
+
+#statsd_server=None
+
+## statsd_port: The UDP port StatsD is listening to on the server defined 
+## in the statsd_server variable.
+## default: 8125
+
+#statsd_port=8125
+
+## statsd_prefix: The string that all metrics reported to your StatsD
+## server will be prefixed with.
+## default: dirpy
+
+#statsd_prefix=dirpy
+
 ## debug: Cause Dirpy to emit debug log output
 ## default: false