title: Consume protobuf messages from Graphite
body: <p>I'd like to know if I can send data to Graphite using protobuf.</p>
  
  <p>I have an application that sends statistics in protobuf format and I want to start sending those statistics to Graphite.</p>
  
  <p>I searched in google and I just found this <a href="https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/search.html?q=protobuf&amp;check_keywords=yes&amp;area=default#" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/search.html?q=protobuf&amp;check_keywords=yes&amp;area=default#</a> but it's not clear if it's only for graphite internal core usage.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>