Create a dummy AsyncstatsdClient before connecting to the real url

This is in case a connection cannot be made on init.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/botcore/_bot.py b/botcore/_bot.py
index f9e0b9fb..e69b056d 100644
--- a/botcore/_bot.py
+++ b/botcore/_bot.py
@@ -89,7 +89,11 @@ class BotBase(commands.Bot):
     ) -> None:
         """Callback used to retry a connection to statsd if it should fail."""
         if attempt >= 8:
-            log.error("Reached 8 attempts trying to reconnect AsyncStatsClient. Aborting")
+            log.error(
+                "Reached 8 attempts trying to reconnect AsyncStatsClient to %s. "
+                "Aborting and leaving the dummy statsd client in place.",
+                statsd_url,
+            )
             return
 
         try:
@@ -218,8 +222,9 @@ class BotBase(commands.Bot):
         )
         self.http.connector = self._connector
 
-        self._connect_statsd(self.statsd_url, loop)
+        # Create dummy stats client first, in case `statsd_url` is unreachable within `_connect_statsd()`
         self.stats = AsyncStatsClient(loop, "127.0.0.1")
+        self._connect_statsd(self.statsd_url, loop)
         await self.stats.create_socket()
 
         try: