diff --git a/app/__init__.py b/app/__init__.py
index 73082d14e..9051620a3 100644
--- a/app/__init__.py
+++ b/app/__init__.py
@@ -114,12 +114,17 @@ def init_app(app):
             url_for('status.show_delivery_status'),
             url_for('spec.get_spec')
         ]
+
         if request.path not in no_auth_req:
             from app.authentication import auth
             error = auth.requires_auth()
             if error:
                 return error
 
+    @app.before_request
+    def record_user_agent():
+        statsd_client.incr("user-agent.{}".format(process_user_agent(request.headers.get('User-Agent', None))))
+
     @app.before_request
     def record_request_details():
         g.start = monotonic()
@@ -141,3 +146,15 @@ def init_app(app):
 
 def create_uuid():
     return str(uuid.uuid4())
+
+
+def process_user_agent(user_agent_string):
+    if user_agent_string and user_agent_string.lower().startswith("notify"):
+        components = user_agent_string.split("/")
+        client_name = components[0].lower()
+        client_version = components[1].replace(".", "-")
+        return "{}.{}".format(client_name, client_version)
+    elif user_agent_string and not user_agent_string.lower().startswith("notify"):
+        return "non-notify-user-agent"
+    else:
+        return "unknown"
diff --git a/tests/app/test_user_agent_processing.py b/tests/app/test_user_agent_processing.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..161b0e475
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/app/test_user_agent_processing.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+from app import process_user_agent
+
+
+def test_can_process_notify_api_user_agent():
+    assert "notify-api-python-client.3-0-0" == process_user_agent("NOTIFY-API-PYTHON-CLIENT/3.0.0")
+
+
+def test_can_handle_non_notify_api_user_agent():
+    assert "non-notify-user-agent" == process_user_agent("Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7B405")  # noqa
+
+
+def test_handles_null_user_agent():
+    assert "unknown" == process_user_agent(None)