Example usage

Author: Cory G Watson

README.md

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 # redis-statsd
 
 Redis statsd is a small, dependency free Python program for periodically fetching stats via Redis' INFO
-command and emitting them to a local StatsD.
+command and emitting them to a local StatsD.
+
+# Optional DogStatsD Tag Support
+
+The `--no-tags` option will disable support for [DogStatsD](http://docs.datadoghq.com/guides/dogstatsd/)
+
+# Usage
+
+```
+usage: redis-statsd.py [-h] [--period PERIOD] [--prefix PREFIX]
+                       [--redis-host REDIS_HOST] [--redis-port REDIS_PORT]
+                       [--statsd-host STATSD_HOST] [--statsd-port STATSD_PORT]
+                       [--no-tags]
+
+Collect metrics from Redis and emit to StatsD
+
+optional arguments:
+  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
+  --period PERIOD       The period at which to collect and emit metrics
+  --prefix PREFIX       The prefix to use for metric names
+  --redis-host REDIS_HOST
+                        The address of the Redis host to connect to
+  --redis-port REDIS_PORT
+                        The port of the Redis host to connect to
+  --statsd-host STATSD_HOST
+                        The port of the StatsD host to connect to
+  --statsd-port STATSD_PORT
+                        The port of the Redis port to connect to
+  --no-tags             Disable tags for use with DogStatsD
+```