code: def _send(self):
          
          while len(self.queue) > 0:
              metric = self.queue.popleft()
              topic, value, timestamp = str(metric).split()
              msg = json.dumps({"event": {topic: value}})
              req = urllib2.Request("https://js.logentries.com/v1/logs/" +
                                    self.log_token, msg)
              try:
                  urllib2.urlopen(req)
              except urllib2.URLError as e:
                  logging.error("Can't send log message to Logentries %s", e)
docs: Convert message to a json object and send to Lognetries