diff --git a/lib/vsc/utils/graphyte.py b/lib/vsc/utils/graphyte.py
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+++ b/lib/vsc/utils/graphyte.py
@@ -0,0 +1,266 @@
+#
+# Copyright 2024-2024 Ghent University
+#
+# This file is part of vsc-utils,
+# originally created by the HPC team of Ghent University (http://ugent.be/hpc/en),
+# with support of Ghent University (http://ugent.be/hpc),
+# the Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC) (https://www.vscentrum.be),
+# the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) (http://www.fwo.be/en)
+# and the Department of Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI) (http://www.ewi-vlaanderen.be/en).
+#
+# https://github.com/hpcugent/vsc-utils
+#
+# vsc-utils is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of
+# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# vsc-utils is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU Library General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
+# along with vsc-utils. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+"""
+The graphyte project lives on GitHub here:
+https://github.com/benhoyt/graphyte
+
+It is redistributed here for ease of use. It has been adapted to vsc standards.
+
+Send data to Graphite metrics server (synchronously or on a background thread).
+This code is licensed under a permissive MIT license -- see LICENSE.txt in the
+original github repository.
+
+"""
+
+import atexit
+import logging
+import queue
+import socket
+import threading
+import time
+
+__all__ = ['Sender', 'init', 'send']
+
+__version__ = '1.7.1'
+
+default_sender = None
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def _has_whitespace(value):
+    return not value or value.split(None, 1)[0] != value
+
+
+class Sender:
+    def __init__(self, host, port=2003, prefix=None, timeout=5, interval=None,
+                 queue_size=None, log_sends=False, protocol='tcp',
+                 batch_size=1000, tags=None, raise_send_errors=False):
+        """Initialize a Sender instance, starting the background thread to
+        send messages at given interval (in seconds) if "interval" is not
+        None. Send at most "batch_size" messages per socket send operation.
+        Default protocol is TCP; use protocol='udp' for UDP.
+
+        Use "tags" to specify common or default tags for this Sender, which
+        are sent with each metric along with any tags passed to send().
+        """
+
+        self.host = host
+        self.port = port
+        self.prefix = prefix
+        self.timeout = timeout
+        self.interval = interval
+        self.log_sends = log_sends
+        self.protocol = protocol
+        self.batch_size = batch_size
+        if tags is None:
+            self.tags = {}
+        else:
+            self.tags = tags
+        self.raise_send_errors = raise_send_errors
+
+        if self.interval is not None:
+            if raise_send_errors:
+                raise ValueError('raise_send_errors must be disabled when interval is set')
+            if queue_size is None:
+                queue_size = int(round(interval)) * 100
+            self._queue = queue.Queue(maxsize=queue_size)
+            self._thread = threading.Thread(target=self._thread_loop)
+            self._thread.daemon = True
+            self._thread.start()
+            atexit.register(self.stop)
+
+    def __del__(self):
+        self.stop()
+
+    def stop(self):
+        """Tell the sender thread to finish and wait for it to stop sending
+        (should be at most "timeout" seconds).
+        """
+        if self.interval is not None:
+            self._queue.put_nowait(None)
+            self._thread.join()
+            self.interval = None
+
+    def build_message(self, metric, value, timestamp, tags=None):
+        """Build a Graphite message to send and return it as a byte string."""
+        if tags is None:
+            tags = {}
+        if _has_whitespace(metric):
+            raise ValueError('"metric" must not have whitespace in it')
+        if not isinstance(value, (int, float)):
+            raise TypeError('"value" must be an int or a float, not a %s',
+                type(value).__name__)
+
+        all_tags = self.tags.copy()
+        all_tags.update(tags)
+        tags_strs = [f';{k}={v}' for k, v in sorted(all_tags.items())]
+        if any(_has_whitespace(t) for t in tags_strs):
+            raise ValueError('"tags" keys and values must not have whitespace in them')
+        tags_suffix = ''.join(tags_strs)
+
+        prefix = self.prefix + '.' if self.prefix else ''
+        message = f"{prefix}{metric}{tags_suffix} {value} {int(round(timestamp))}\n"
+        message = message.encode('utf-8')
+        return message
+
+    def send(self, metric, value, timestamp=None, tags=None):
+        """Send given metric and (int or float) value to Graphite host.
+        Performs send on background thread if "interval" was specified when
+        creating this Sender.
+
+        If a "tags" dict is specified, send the tags to the Graphite host along
+        with the metric, in addition to any default tags passed to Sender() --
+        the tags argument here overrides any default tags.
+        """
+        if tags is None:
+            tags = {}
+        if timestamp is None:
+            timestamp = time.time()
+        message = self.build_message(metric, value, timestamp, tags=tags)
+
+        if self.interval is None:
+            self.send_socket(message)
+        else:
+            try:
+                self._queue.put_nowait(message)
+            except queue.Full:
+                logger.error('queue full when sending %s', message)
+
+    def send_message(self, message):
+        if self.protocol == 'tcp':
+            with socket.create_connection((self.host, self.port), self.timeout) as sock:
+                sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
+                sock.sendall(message)
+        elif self.protocol == 'udp':
+            with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) as sock:
+                sock.sendto(message, (self.host, self.port))
+        else:
+            raise ValueError('"protocol" must be \'tcp\' or \'udp\', not %s', self.protocol)
+
+    def send_socket(self, message):
+        """Low-level function to send message bytes to this Sender's socket.
+        You should usually call send() instead of this function (unless you're
+        subclassing or writing unit tests).
+        """
+        if self.log_sends:
+            start_time = time.time()
+        try:
+            self.send_message(message)
+        except Exception as error:
+            if self.raise_send_errors:
+                raise
+            logger.error('error sending message %s: %s', message, error)
+        else:
+            if self.log_sends:
+                elapsed_time = time.time() - start_time
+                logger.info('sent message %s to %s:%s in %s seconds',
+                        message, self.host, self.port, elapsed_time)
+
+    def _thread_loop(self):
+        """Background thread used when Sender is in asynchronous/interval mode."""
+        last_check_time = time.time()
+        messages = []
+        while True:
+            # Get first message from queue, blocking until the next time we
+            # should be sending
+            time_since_last_check = time.time() - last_check_time
+            time_till_next_check = max(0, self.interval - time_since_last_check)
+            try:
+                message = self._queue.get(timeout=time_till_next_check)
+            except queue.Empty:
+                pass
+            else:
+                if message is None:
+                    # None is the signal to stop this background thread
+                    break
+                messages.append(message)
+
+                # Get any other messages currently on queue without blocking,
+                # paying attention to None ("stop thread" signal)
+                should_stop = False
+                while True:
+                    try:
+                        message = self._queue.get_nowait()
+                    except queue.Empty:
+                        break
+                    if message is None:
+                        should_stop = True
+                        break
+                    messages.append(message)
+                if should_stop:
+                    break
+
+            # If it's time to send, send what we've collected
+            current_time = time.time()
+            if current_time - last_check_time >= self.interval:
+                last_check_time = current_time
+                for i in range(0, len(messages), self.batch_size):
+                    batch = messages[i:i + self.batch_size]
+                    self.send_socket(b''.join(batch))
+                messages = []
+
+        # Send any final messages before exiting thread
+        for i in range(0, len(messages), self.batch_size):
+            batch = messages[i:i + self.batch_size]
+            self.send_socket(b''.join(batch))
+
+def init(*args, **kwargs):
+    """Initialize default Sender instance with given args."""
+    global default_sender
+    default_sender = Sender(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
+def send(*args, **kwargs):
+    """Send message using default Sender instance."""
+    default_sender.send(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    import argparse
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument('metric',
+                        help='name of metric to send')
+    parser.add_argument('value', type=float,
+                        help='numeric value to send')
+    parser.add_argument('-s', '--server', default='localhost',
+                        help='hostname of Graphite server to send to, default %(default)s')
+    parser.add_argument('-p', '--port', type=int, default=2003,
+                        help='port to send message to, default %(default)d')
+    parser.add_argument('-u', '--udp', action='store_true',
+                        help='send via UDP instead of TCP')
+    parser.add_argument('-t', '--timestamp', type=int,
+                        help='Unix timestamp for message (defaults to current time)')
+    parser.add_argument('-q', '--quiet', action='store_true',
+                        help="quiet mode (don't log send to stdout)")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    if not args.quiet:
+        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(message)s')
+
+    sender = Sender(args.server, port=args.port, log_sends=not args.quiet,
+                    protocol='udp' if args.udp else 'tcp')
+    sender.send(args.metric, args.value, timestamp=args.timestamp)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8fe1c4e..8b058ad 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 ]
 
 PACKAGE = {
-    'version': '2.2.6',
+    'version': '2.2.7',
     'author': [ag, sdw],
     'maintainer': [ag, sdw],
     'excluded_pkgs_rpm': ['vsc', 'vsc.utils'],  # vsc is default, vsc.utils is provided by vsc-base