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 ## StatsD
 
-`dogapi` does not provide any functionality to talk to a local dogstatsd server.
+`dogapi` does not provide any functionality to talk to a local `dogstatsd` server.
 This library is purely an interface to the HTTP api.
 
+If you are looking for a good Datadog StatsD library, I recommend checking out [node-dogstatsd](https://github.com/joybro/node-dogstatsd).
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 ## Installation
 
 **From NPM:**