 
     return metricName
       .replace /[:?]/g,               '_' # replace : and ? with _
-      .replace /[^A-Za-z0-9_\. ]+/g,  ''  # remove invalid characters
+      .replace /[^A-Za-z0-9_\.]+/g,   ''  # remove invalid characters
 
 
   @sendMetrics : (metricsList, metricName, tags) ->

{ argv }  = require 'optimist'
KONFIG    = require('./../../koding-config-manager').load("main.#{argv.c}")
os        = require 'os'
DogStatsD = require './dogstatsd'
Timer     = require './timer'

module.exports = class MetricsBase

  @timer : Timer


  @commonTagList : {


  @populateCommonTags : (tags) ->

    tags ?= []

    for key, value of @commonTagList
      for prop in value
