1 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
2 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
3 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
4 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
5 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
6 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
7 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
8 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
9 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
11 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
12 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
13 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
16 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
17 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
18 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
19 Weiskircher for the patch.
20 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
21 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
22 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
23 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
24 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
25 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
26 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
27 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
28 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
29 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
30 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
31 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
32 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
34 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
35 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
36 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
37 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
38 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
39 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
40 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
41 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
42 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
43 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
44 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
45 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
46 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
47 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
48 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
49 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
50 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
51 storage has been added.
52 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
55 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
56 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
57 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
58 an unknown data source type.
60 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
61 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
62 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
63 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
64 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
65 figuring out a way to make this work.
66 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
67 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
68 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
69 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
71 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
73 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
74 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
75 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
76 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
77 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
78 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
80 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
81 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
82 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
83 packets has been fixed.
84 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
85 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
86 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
87 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
88 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
89 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
91 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
92 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
93 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
94 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
95 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
98 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
99 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
100 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
101 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
102 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
103 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
105 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
106 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
107 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
108 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
109 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
110 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
112 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
113 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
114 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
115 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
117 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
118 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
120 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
121 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
122 issues on some platforms.
123 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
124 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
125 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
128 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
129 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
130 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
131 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
132 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
133 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
135 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
136 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
137 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
138 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
139 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
140 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
141 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
142 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
143 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
144 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
145 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
147 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
148 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
149 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
150 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
151 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
152 Aman Gupta for the patch.
153 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
154 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
155 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
156 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
157 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
159 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
160 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
162 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
163 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
164 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
165 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
166 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
167 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
168 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
169 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
170 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
171 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
172 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
173 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
174 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
175 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
177 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
178 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
179 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
180 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
181 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
182 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
184 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
185 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
186 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
187 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
189 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
190 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
191 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
192 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
194 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
195 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
197 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
198 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
199 issues on some platforms.
200 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
201 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
202 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
205 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
206 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
207 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
208 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
209 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
210 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
212 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
213 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
214 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
215 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
216 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
217 Hess for reporting this bug.
218 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
219 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
220 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
221 is linked with the shipped library, too.
222 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
223 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
224 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
225 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
226 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
227 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
228 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
229 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
230 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
231 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
232 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
233 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
234 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
237 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
238 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
240 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
241 Díaz for fixing this bug.
242 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
243 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
244 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
245 for reporting the bug.
246 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
248 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
249 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
250 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
251 libtool 2.2 has been added.
252 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
253 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
254 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
255 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
256 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
258 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
259 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
260 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
261 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
262 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
264 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
265 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
267 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
268 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
269 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
270 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
271 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
272 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
273 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
274 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
275 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
276 Konetzko for the patch.
277 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
278 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
279 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
280 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
281 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
282 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
283 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
284 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
285 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
286 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
287 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
288 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
289 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
290 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
291 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
292 Quiédeville for the patch.
293 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
295 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
296 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
297 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
298 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
299 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
300 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
301 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
302 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
304 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
305 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
306 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
307 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
308 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
309 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
311 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
312 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
313 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
314 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
316 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
317 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
318 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
319 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
320 Hess for reporting this bug.
321 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
322 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
323 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
324 is linked with the shipped library, too.
325 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
326 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
327 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
328 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
329 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
332 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
333 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
334 Díaz for fixing this bug.
335 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
336 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
337 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
338 for reporting the bug.
340 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
341 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
342 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
343 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
344 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
345 providing an OpenBSD system.
346 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
347 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
348 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
349 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
350 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
352 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
354 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
355 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
356 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
357 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
358 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
360 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
361 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
362 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
364 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
365 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
366 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
367 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
369 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
370 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
371 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
372 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
373 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
374 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
375 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
376 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
377 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
378 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
379 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
380 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
381 initialized, the daemon may crash.
383 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
384 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
385 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
386 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
387 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
388 for finding and fixing most of them.
389 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
390 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
392 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
393 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
394 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
395 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
396 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
397 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
398 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
399 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
400 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
401 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
402 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
404 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
405 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
406 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
407 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
409 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
410 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
411 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
412 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
413 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
414 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
415 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
416 Kuhnle for the patch.
417 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
418 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
419 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
420 MacEachern for the patch.
421 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
422 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
423 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
424 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
425 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
426 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
427 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
428 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
429 select interfaces, too.
430 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
431 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
432 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
434 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
435 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
436 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
437 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
438 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
439 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
440 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
441 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
442 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
443 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
445 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
446 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
447 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
448 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
449 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
450 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
451 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
452 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
454 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
455 been added. Portability fixes.
456 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
457 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
458 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
460 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
463 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
464 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
465 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
466 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
467 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
468 providing an OpenBSD system.
469 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
470 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
472 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
473 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
474 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
475 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
476 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
477 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
479 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
480 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
481 initialized, the daemon may crash.
482 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
484 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
485 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
487 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
488 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
489 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
491 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
492 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
493 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
494 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
496 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
497 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
498 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
499 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
501 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
502 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
503 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
504 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
505 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
506 provide these necessary functions.
507 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
508 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
510 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
511 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
512 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
513 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
515 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
516 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
517 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
518 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
519 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
520 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
522 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
523 invalid configuration options.
524 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
525 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
526 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
528 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
529 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
530 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
531 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
533 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
534 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
535 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
536 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
537 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
538 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
539 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
540 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
542 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
543 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
544 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
545 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
546 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
547 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
548 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
549 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
550 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
551 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
552 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
553 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
555 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
556 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
559 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
560 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
561 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
563 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
564 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
565 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
566 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
567 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
568 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
570 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
571 email, using the `esmtp' library.
572 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
573 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
575 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
576 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
577 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
578 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
580 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
581 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
582 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
583 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
584 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
586 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
587 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
588 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
590 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
591 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
592 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
593 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
595 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
596 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
597 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
598 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
599 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
600 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
601 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
602 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
603 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
604 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
605 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
606 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
608 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
609 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
610 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
612 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
613 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
614 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
615 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
617 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
618 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
619 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
620 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
621 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
622 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
623 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
624 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
626 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
627 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
628 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
629 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
630 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
631 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
632 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
635 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
636 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
637 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
639 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
640 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
642 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
643 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
644 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
645 architecture collectd is being built on.
646 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
648 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
650 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
651 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
652 values under Solaris.
653 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
654 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
656 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
657 returned by some broken drivers.
659 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
660 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
661 to kyrone for reporting this.
662 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
664 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
666 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
667 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
668 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
669 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
671 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
672 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
673 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
674 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
675 flush its values to disk.
676 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
677 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
678 for each data source.
679 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
681 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
682 page of an Ascent server.
683 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
684 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
685 specific disks has been added.
686 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
687 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
688 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
690 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
691 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
692 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
693 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
694 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
695 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
696 configuration has been decreased.
697 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
698 continuously reading from log files.
699 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
700 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
701 and number of channels.
702 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
703 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
704 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
706 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
707 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
709 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
711 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
712 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
713 again has been applied.
714 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
716 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
717 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
719 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
720 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
721 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
724 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
725 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
726 they are in non-standard paths.
727 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
728 if the libc expects it.
729 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
730 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
732 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
733 using a buffer of static size.
734 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
736 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
737 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
739 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
740 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
741 `Persist' threshold options.
742 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
743 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
744 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
745 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
746 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
748 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
749 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
751 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
752 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
753 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
754 cross-platform compatibility.
755 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
756 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
757 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
759 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
760 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
761 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
762 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
763 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
764 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
766 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
767 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
768 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
769 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
770 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
771 wants to add custom type definitions.
772 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
773 entire directories and shell wildcards.
774 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
775 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
776 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
777 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
778 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
779 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
780 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
781 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
782 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
783 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
784 domain name lookups in this plugin.
785 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
786 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
787 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
788 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
789 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
790 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
791 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
792 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
793 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
794 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
795 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
796 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
797 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
798 Technology group for this plugin.
800 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
801 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
802 they are in non-standard paths.
803 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
804 if the libc expects it.
805 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
806 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
808 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
809 using a buffer of static size.
810 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
812 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
813 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
815 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
816 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
817 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
818 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
819 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
821 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
822 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
823 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
825 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
826 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
827 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
828 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
829 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
830 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
831 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
832 cross-platform compatibility.
833 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
834 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
835 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
836 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
838 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
839 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
840 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
841 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
842 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
844 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
845 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
846 of the libsensors library.
848 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
849 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
850 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
852 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
853 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
856 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
857 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
859 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
861 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
862 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
863 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
864 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
865 definitions separate from the host definitions.
866 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
867 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
868 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
869 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
870 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
871 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
872 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
873 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
874 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
875 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
876 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
877 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
878 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
879 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
880 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
881 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
882 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
883 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
884 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
885 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
886 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
888 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
889 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
890 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
891 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
892 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
894 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
895 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
897 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
898 of the libsensors library.
900 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
901 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
902 it's in a non-standard location.
903 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
904 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
905 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
906 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
907 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
908 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
910 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
911 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
913 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
914 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
916 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
917 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
918 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
919 noise quality as percentage.
920 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
921 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
922 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
923 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
924 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
925 support for the `timeticks' type.
927 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
928 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
929 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
930 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
932 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
933 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
934 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
936 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
937 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
938 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
939 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
941 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
942 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
943 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
944 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
946 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
947 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
948 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
949 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
950 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
951 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
952 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
953 to not block data collection.
954 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
955 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
956 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
958 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
959 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
960 of music played with xmms.
962 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
963 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
964 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
965 noise quality as percentage.
966 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
968 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
969 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
970 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
971 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
973 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
974 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
975 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
976 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
978 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
979 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
981 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
982 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
983 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
984 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
985 (i. e. without quotes).
986 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
987 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
988 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
990 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
991 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
992 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
993 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
995 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
996 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
997 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
1000 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
1001 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
1003 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
1004 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1005 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
1006 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1007 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
1008 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1009 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
1011 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
1012 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
1013 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
1014 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
1015 initialized correctly.
1016 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
1018 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
1019 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
1020 they're given in numerically form.
1022 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
1023 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
1024 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
1027 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
1028 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
1029 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
1030 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
1031 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
1032 thread-safe functions from now on.
1033 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
1034 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
1035 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
1037 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
1038 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
1039 write to increase IO-performance.
1040 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
1041 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
1042 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
1043 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
1044 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
1046 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
1047 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
1048 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
1050 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
1051 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
1052 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
1053 or STDOUT or STDERR.
1054 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
1055 system's syslog daemon.
1056 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
1057 entropy currently being available to the system.
1058 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
1059 back values provided by the forked processes.
1060 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
1061 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
1063 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
1064 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
1065 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
1066 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
1067 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
1068 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
1069 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
1070 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
1071 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
1073 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
1074 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1075 noise quality as percentage.
1077 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
1078 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1080 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
1081 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
1082 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
1083 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
1084 were accounted as `zombies'.
1086 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
1087 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
1090 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
1091 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
1092 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
1094 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
1095 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
1096 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
1097 segfault with some libcs.
1099 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
1100 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
1101 under Solaris again.
1102 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
1104 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
1105 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
1107 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
1108 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
1109 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
1110 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
1111 write init.d-scripts for it.
1112 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
1113 caused problems every now and then.
1114 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
1115 filesystem types or devices.
1116 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
1117 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
1119 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
1120 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
1121 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
1122 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
1123 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
1124 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
1125 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
1126 segment size and pagefaults.
1127 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
1128 queries multimeters.
1129 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
1130 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
1131 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
1133 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
1134 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
1135 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
1136 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
1138 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
1139 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
1140 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
1141 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
1144 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
1145 * The sample config file has been improved.
1146 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
1147 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
1148 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
1149 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
1151 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
1152 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
1153 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
1155 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
1156 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
1158 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
1159 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
1160 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
1161 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
1163 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
1164 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
1165 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
1166 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
1167 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
1168 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
1169 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
1170 with a test environment :)
1171 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
1174 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
1175 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
1176 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
1178 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
1179 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
1180 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
1182 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
1183 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
1184 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
1186 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
1187 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
1189 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
1190 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1191 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1192 approximately 7.6 days.
1194 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
1195 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1196 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1197 approximately 7.6 days.
1199 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
1200 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
1202 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1204 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1206 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1207 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1208 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1209 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1210 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1212 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1213 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1214 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1215 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1216 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1217 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1218 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1219 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1221 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1222 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1223 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1224 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1226 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1227 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1228 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1230 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1231 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1232 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1234 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1235 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1236 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1239 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1240 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1241 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1243 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1244 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1245 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1246 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1248 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1249 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1250 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1252 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1253 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1255 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1256 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1258 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1259 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1261 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1262 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1264 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1265 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1266 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1267 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1268 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1269 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1270 address and/or port than localhost.
1271 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1272 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1273 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1274 be set in the configfile.
1276 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1277 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1278 client mode. This released fixes this.
1280 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1281 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1282 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1285 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1286 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1288 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1289 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1290 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1291 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1293 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1294 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1295 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1298 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1299 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1300 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1302 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1303 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1304 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1305 currently logged in users.
1306 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1307 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1308 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1309 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1311 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1312 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1313 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1314 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1315 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1316 with the `-c' argument.
1317 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1318 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1319 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1320 Barcellos for this patch.
1322 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1323 * New modules have been added:
1324 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1325 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1326 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1327 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1329 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1330 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1332 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1333 between polls up to one day.
1334 * The init.d files have been improved.
1335 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1337 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1338 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1339 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1341 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1342 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1343 multicast) has been added.
1344 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1345 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1346 to be linked against an external library.
1347 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1348 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1350 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1351 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1353 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1354 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1355 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1356 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1357 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1358 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1359 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1360 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1361 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1364 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1365 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1367 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1369 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1370 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1372 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1373 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1374 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1375 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1377 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1378 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1379 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1381 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1382 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1383 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1384 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1385 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1386 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1387 statistics will not work.
1389 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1390 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1391 weird strings as disk-names..
1393 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1394 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1395 about the disks and partitions.
1397 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1398 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1399 and/or kernel versions.
1401 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1402 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1403 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1405 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1406 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1407 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1409 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1410 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1412 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1413 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1415 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1417 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1418 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1420 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1421 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob