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How to send metrics using Shell
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Using the netcat utility
echo "YOUR-API-KEY.foo 1.2" | nc carbon.hostedgraphite.com 2003
Using the netcat utility
echo "YOUR-API-KEY.foo 1.2" | nc -uw0 carbon.hostedgraphite.com 2003
Using the Ncat utility
echo "YOUR-API-KEY.con_users 1.3" | ncat --ssl carbon.hostedgraphite.com 20030
Alternatively, the following example using OpenSSL should work out of the box in OS X:
echo "YOUR-API-KEY.con_users 1.3" | openssl s_client -connect carbon.hostedgraphite.com:20030
Using the Curl utility
curl https://[email protected]/api/v1/sink --data-binary "foo 1.2"
curl https://YOUR-AP[email protected]/api/v1/sink --data-binary @data.txt
where data.txt contains multiple metrics and values on a separate line:
Your API key can be found on your account home page.