// Defines interval between flushes to statsd server
flushInterval := 5 * time.Second

// Connection to the statsd server
statsdWriter, err := net.Dial("udp", "127.0.0.1:8126")
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}

// Create the stats client
s := xstats.New(dogstatsd.New(statsdWriter, flushInterval))

// Global tags sent with all metrics (only with supported clients like datadog's)
s.AddTags("role:my-service", "dc:sv6")

// Send some observations
s.Count("requests", 1, "tag")
s.Timing("something", 5*time.Millisecond, "tag")

var xh xhandler.HandlerC

// Here is your handler
xh = http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    // Get the xstats request's instance from the context. You can safely assume it will
    // be always there, if the handler is removed, xstats.FromContext will return a nop
    // instance.
    m := xstats.FromRequest(r)

    // Count something
    m.Count("requests", 1, "route:index")
})

// Install the metric handler with dogstatsd backend client and some env tags
flushInterval := 5 * time.Second
tags := []string{"role:my-service"}
statsdWriter, err := net.Dial("udp", "127.0.0.1:8126")
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}
xh = xstats.NewHandler(dogstatsd.New(statsdWriter, flushInterval), tags, xh)

// Root context
ctx := context.Background()
h := xhandler.New(ctx, xh)
http.Handle("/", h)

if err := http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil); err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}