def _send(self, key, value, metric_type):
        try:
            payload = self.PAYLOAD_FORMAT.format(self._prefix, self._hostname,
                                                 self._consumer_name, key,
                                                 value, metric_type).encode()
            self._socket.sendto(payload, self._address)
        except socket.error:
            LOGGER.exception('Error sending statsd metric')
Send the specified value to the statsd daemon via UDP without a
dataset/ETHPy150Open gmr/rejected/rejected/statsd.py/StatsdClient._send