riak-statsd-python is a tiny transport proxy to instrument Riak clients written in Python.
Request counters as well as response times are sent to statsd for instrumentation.
import riak
import riak_statsd
stats = statsd.StatsClient()
db = riak.RiakClient('localhost', 1234,
transport_class=riak_statsd.create_proxy(riak.RiakHttpTransport, stats))