From 67095b4ec3ab8bb52202153c0bbacebbafdeb96f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carlo Cabanilla <carlo@datadoghq.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:52:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix graphite listener payload serialization (fixes #415)

---
 ddagent.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ddagent.py b/ddagent.py
index e3baeb5f2e..2c26018c84 100755
--- a/ddagent.py
+++ b/ddagent.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 from tornado.options import define, parse_command_line, options
 
 # agent import
-from util import Watchdog, get_uuid, get_hostname
+from util import Watchdog, get_uuid, get_hostname, json
 from emitter import http_emitter, format_body
 from config import get_config
 from checks.check_status import ForwarderStatus
@@ -330,7 +330,8 @@ def _postMetrics(self):
             self._metrics['uuid'] = get_uuid()
             self._metrics['internalHostname'] = get_hostname(self._agentConfig)
             self._metrics['apiKey'] = self._agentConfig['api_key']
-            MetricTransaction(self._metrics, {})
+            MetricTransaction(json.dumps(self._metrics),
+                headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'})
             self._metrics = {}
 
     def run(self):