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+# rspamd-influxdb
+Quick and dirty approach to get stats of rspamd out of the webinterface's API into InfluxDB for visualizing using Grafana.
+
+## Usage
+`python3 rspamd-influxdb.py https://example.com:1337/ superSecretPassword`
+
+## Utilization
+Use this script call within InfluxData's Telegraf