diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0bc0179..f29acaa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ config = Config(
 )
 
 # Create the rust reporter.
-reporter = Reporter()
+reporter = Reporter(config={"agent_host_name": "127.0.0.1", "agent_port": 6831})
 
 # Create the tracer and install it as the global tracer.
 #
@@ -38,12 +38,6 @@ opentracing.set_global_tracer(tracer)
 
 ```
 
-Limitations
------------
-
-The reporter is not configurable and is hardcoded to report to the local agent
-on localhost and the default port.
-
 
 Building
 --------
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ff1ff55..c4d0700 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -3,4 +3,8 @@ requires = ["maturin>=0.12,<0.13"]
 build-backend = "maturin"
 
 [tool.maturin]
-sdist-include = ["Cargo.lock"]
\ No newline at end of file
+sdist-include = ["Cargo.lock"]
+
+# Optional Dependencies
+# ---------------------
+objgraph = { version = ">=3.5.0", optional = true }
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index a8e7190..f0fb1c4 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ impl Stats {
 
 /// The main reporter class.
 #[pyclass]
-#[pyo3(text_signature = "()")]
+#[pyo3(text_signature = "(config, /)")]
 struct Reporter {
     span_sender: Sender<thrift_gen::jaeger::Span>,
     process_sender: Sender<thrift_gen::jaeger::Process>,
@@ -80,14 +80,30 @@ struct Reporter {
 #[pymethods]
 impl Reporter {
     #[new]
-    fn new() -> PyResult<Reporter> {
+    fn new(config: Option<&PyDict>) -> PyResult<Reporter> {
+        let mut agent_host_name: String = "127.0.0.1".to_string();
+        let mut agent_port: i32 = 6831;
+
+        if let Some(config) = config {
+            if let Some(agent_host_name_arg) = config.get_item("agent_host_name") {
+                agent_host_name = agent_host_name_arg.extract().map_err(|_| {
+                    pyo3::exceptions::PyTypeError::new_err("'agent_host_name' must be an string")
+                })?;
+            }
+
+            if let Some(agent_port_arg) = config.get_item("agent_port") {
+                agent_port = agent_port_arg.extract().map_err(|_| {
+                    pyo3::exceptions::PyTypeError::new_err("'agent_port' must be an int")
+                })?;
+            }
+        }
         // Set up the UDP transport
         let socket = UdpSocket::bind(
             &(49152..65535)
                 .map(|port| SocketAddr::from(([127, 0, 0, 1], port)))
                 .collect::<Vec<_>>()[..],
         )?;
-        socket.connect("127.0.0.1:6831")?;
+        socket.connect(format!("{}:{}", agent_host_name, agent_port))?;
 
         // We never read anything so this can be a no-op input protocol
         let input_protocol = TCompactInputProtocol::new(empty());
diff --git a/test.py b/test.py
index f565111..9e12513 100644
--- a/test.py
+++ b/test.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
             },
             # 'logging': True,
         },
-        service_name="your-app-name",
+        service_name="rust-jaeger-python-client-test",
     )
 
     tracer = config.create_tracer(reporter, config.sampler)