@classmethod
def event(cls, title, text, tags=None, **kwargs):
    """
        Record a timing metric.

        Note that an event title is not a metric name, so no
        DATADOG_STATS_PREFIX value is prepended to it.

        Args:
            title (str): Event title
            text (str or None): Optional event text (string), supports
                MarkDown (see http://docs.datadoghq.com/guides/markdown/ )
            tags (list or dict): miscellaneous tags to describe the value
        """
    cls.stats().event(title, text, tags=cls._convert_tags(tags), **kwargs)
