text: from datadog import initialize, api
  from datetime import datetime
  from orbi import orbi
  import os
  import time
  
  REPORT_INTERVAL=5 # seconds
  
  def metrics_from_stats(stats_dict):
      return [{'metric': k, 'points': v} for k, v in stats_dict.iteritems()]
  
  def is_number(s):
      try:
          float(s)
          return True
      except ValueError:
          return False
  
  orbi_username = os.environ['ORBI_USERNAME']
  orbi_password = os.environ['ORBI_PASSWORD']
  
  datadog_options = {
      'api_key': os.environ['DATADOG_API_KEY'],
      'app_key': os.environ['DATADOG_APP_KEY']
  }
  
  initialize(**datadog_options)
  
  while True:
      first_stats_dict = orbi.statistics(orbi_username, orbi_password)
      first_numbers_dict = {k: float(v) for k, v in first_stats_dict.iteritems() if is_number(v)}
  
      time.sleep(1)
      second_stats_dict = orbi.statistics(orbi_username, orbi_password)
      second_numbers_dict = {k: float(v) for k, v in second_stats_dict.iteritems() if is_number(v)}
  
      diff_dict = {k: (second_numbers_dict[k] - first_numbers_dict[k]) for k, v in first_numbers_dict.iteritems()}
  
      print "tick @ %s" % datetime.now()
  
      try:
          api.Metric.send(metrics_from_stats(diff_dict))
      except Exception, e:
          print "Got an exception while contacting the Datadog API: %s" % e
          pass
  
      time.sleep(REPORT_INTERVAL)
  