---
id: graphitesend
version: "0.10.0"
license: unclear
license_treatment: unclear
maintenance: abandoned
---

# graphitesend — A simple interface for sending metrics to Graphite

License: unclear · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 129.0K/mo

## What it is and what it does

graphitesend is a Python client library for submitting metrics to Graphite's Carbon backend. It provides a simple interface to send individual metrics, batches of metrics as dictionaries or lists, and supports customizable metric naming via prefixes, groups, and system names. Metrics are timestamped and formatted according to Graphite's plaintext protocol before transmission over TCP or UDP.

The package has no external runtime dependencies and is designed for systems that already run Graphite. However, the project has been abandoned since 2017 and is no longer maintained by its original author. The maintainer explicitly notes in the documentation that a collaborator has forked and maintains the project elsewhere. This makes it a poor choice for new projects unless you have specific reasons to use this exact version.

Use it for:

- Submitting application performance metrics to a Graphite monitoring stack from Python services
- Collecting and forwarding system metrics parsed from local tools to a centralized Graphite instance
- Building custom monitoring scripts that gather metrics and push them to Graphite on a schedule
- Instrumenting batch jobs or cron tasks to report completion status and execution time to Graphite
- Prototyping metric submission logic before committing to a heavier monitoring framework

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Sends metrics to Graphite's Carbon backend over TCP or UDP, with support for custom prefixes, grouping, and batch operations.

No. The package is abandoned and unmaintained since 2017. The original author explicitly recommends a maintained fork instead. While it has no known vulnerabilities and no external dependencies, the lack of maintenance makes it unsuitable for new projects. Consider using an actively maintained Graphite client instead.

## Install

pip install graphitesend
uv add graphitesend
poetry add graphitesend

## Installing graphitesend

Before you install: High install friction due to source-only distribution. Project is abandoned since 2017 with no maintenance for years. No runtime dependencies, but lack of active maintenance is a significant concern for new projects.

License in practice: License status is unclear—no license metadata is recorded. Before adopting this package, verify the actual license terms in the repository to ensure compatibility with your project.

Quickstart:

pip install graphitesend

import graphitesend
g = graphitesend.init(prefix='myapp')
g.send('metric', 45)
g.send_dict({'metric': 45, 'metric2': 55})

Requires a running Graphite/Carbon server accessible at localhost:2003 (or configured host/port). Project is unmaintained since 2017.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package works reliably with modern Python versions (python_support is unspecified)
- Current state of the maintained fork graphitesender and whether it should be preferred for new projects
- Whether UDP support mentioned in the description is available in the 0.10.0 release

## Package facts

- License: not declared (unclear)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: high
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 129.0K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

graphite metrics client, carbon protocol sender, graphite time series, send metrics to graphite, graphite monitoring integration, carbon backend python, graphite data submission, graphite-integration, metrics-collection, abandoned

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