Support InfluxDB/Telegraf style tags

[rijnhard]

Hi

So the telegraf agent (made by the creators of InfluxDB) allows tags to serialized into a modified statsd protocol as well.
influxdata/telegraf#39 (comment)
https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/statsd#influx-statsd

But they chose a different way to serialize the data.

Ideally this package should support both for portability

[yannmh]

Thanks for the information @WiR3D-kNiGhT.

Could you let us what would be the potential use cases please ? I am worried that adding a different payload format could confuse dogstatsd-ruby users.

Yann

[rijnhard]

Hi @yannmh

The use case is portability, being able to support tags and move easily from using influx and telegraf to datadog. Because at the moment no ruby statsd client supports the influx serialization, so it makes sense to use a client that already supports tags, and by being the defacto client for telegraf/influx statsd you also always ensure to any user of telegraf/influx that it's easy to move to datadog