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 Note that timers will be accepted with the `ms`, `h`, and `d` statsd types.  The first two are timers and histograms and the `d` type is for DataDog's "distribution" type.  The distribution type is treated identically to timers and histograms.
 
+The DogStatsD client by default emits timer metrics in seconds, set [use_ms](https://github.com/DataDog/datadogpy/blob/master/datadog/dogstatsd/base.py#L63) to `True` to fix this.
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 ### Regular expression matching
 
 Another capability when using YAML configuration is the ability to define matches