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StatsD might be better since you are just recording datapoints + text field I'm assuming.

Sounds interesting... i'll take a look. The fact that its UDP would be helpful in avoiding the need for a dependency on celery/message queues.

What's it like in terms of getting the data back out?

You can write your plugin for the back end to dump it. It defaults to graphite which would be familiar enough I think.