Fake Metrics Client

[badosu]

Is there already or the possibility of a fake metrics client?

I want to be able to use librato on development the same way I use it in production without having the hassle of checking the environment condition on each request.

If there's not, how are people working around this?

Would this be a desirable addition to this gem? For example:

if ENV['RACK_ENV'] != 'production'
  Librato::Metrics.client = Librato::FakeClient.new(logger: ENV['RACK_ENV'] == 'test' ? nil : $stdout)
end

In the example above we define a fake client that logs the data submissions on development and nothing on test, replacing the 'real' client outside the production environment.

[mateusduboli]

+1

[nextmat]

This definitely seems like it would be useful to me.

[badosu]

So, I've been using Librato without credentials on development mode and so far nothing bad happened, I just would like to log all requests that Librato would send.

[caarlos0]

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