From 513172e49dd9c9eafb2df33e54760c63da5304e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Forcier <jforcier@grubhub.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:47:27 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Enable compressed payloads on ThreadStats object

---
 datadog_lambda/metric.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/datadog_lambda/metric.py b/datadog_lambda/metric.py
index aef07c39..00bdb5ec 100644
--- a/datadog_lambda/metric.py
+++ b/datadog_lambda/metric.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def flush(self, value):
 if should_use_extension:
     lambda_stats = StatsDWrapper()
 else:
-    lambda_stats = ThreadStats()
+    lambda_stats = ThreadStats(compress_payload=True)
     lambda_stats.start()