1 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
2 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
4 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
5 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
6 issues on some platforms.
7 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
8 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
9 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
12 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
13 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
14 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
15 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
16 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
17 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
19 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
20 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
21 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
22 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
23 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
24 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
25 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
26 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
27 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
28 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
29 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
31 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
32 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
33 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
34 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
35 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
36 Aman Gupta for the patch.
37 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
38 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
39 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
40 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
41 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
43 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
44 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
46 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
47 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
48 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
49 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
50 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
51 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
52 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
53 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
54 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
55 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
56 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
57 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
58 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
59 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
61 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
62 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
63 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
64 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
65 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
66 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
68 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
69 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
70 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
71 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
73 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
74 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
75 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
76 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
78 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
79 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
81 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
82 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
83 issues on some platforms.
84 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
85 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
86 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
89 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
90 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
91 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
92 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
93 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
94 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
96 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
97 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
98 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
99 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
100 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
101 Hess for reporting this bug.
102 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
103 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
104 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
105 is linked with the shipped library, too.
106 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
107 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
108 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
109 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
110 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
111 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
112 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
113 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
114 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
115 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
116 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
117 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
118 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
121 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
122 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
124 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
125 Díaz for fixing this bug.
126 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
127 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
128 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
129 for reporting the bug.
130 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
132 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
133 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
134 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
135 libtool 2.2 has been added.
136 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
137 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
138 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
139 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
140 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
142 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
143 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
144 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
145 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
146 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
148 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
149 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
151 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
152 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
153 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
154 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
155 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
156 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
157 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
158 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
159 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
160 Konetzko for the patch.
161 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
162 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
163 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
164 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
165 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
166 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
167 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
168 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
169 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
170 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
171 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
172 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
173 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
174 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
175 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
176 Quiédeville for the patch.
177 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
179 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
180 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
181 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
182 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
183 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
184 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
185 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
186 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
188 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
189 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
190 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
191 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
192 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
193 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
195 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
196 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
197 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
198 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
200 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
201 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
202 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
203 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
204 Hess for reporting this bug.
205 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
206 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
207 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
208 is linked with the shipped library, too.
209 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
210 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
211 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
212 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
213 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
216 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
217 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
218 Díaz for fixing this bug.
219 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
220 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
221 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
222 for reporting the bug.
224 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
225 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
226 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
227 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
228 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
229 providing an OpenBSD system.
230 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
231 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
232 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
233 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
234 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
236 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
238 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
239 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
240 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
241 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
242 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
244 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
245 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
246 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
248 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
249 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
250 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
251 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
253 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
254 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
255 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
256 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
257 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
258 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
259 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
260 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
261 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
262 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
263 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
264 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
265 initialized, the daemon may crash.
267 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
268 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
269 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
270 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
271 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
272 for finding and fixing most of them.
273 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
274 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
276 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
277 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
278 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
279 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
280 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
281 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
282 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
283 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
284 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
285 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
286 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
288 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
289 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
290 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
291 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
293 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
294 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
295 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
296 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
297 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
298 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
299 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
300 Kuhnle for the patch.
301 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
302 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
303 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
304 MacEachern for the patch.
305 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
306 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
307 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
308 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
309 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
310 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
311 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
312 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
313 select interfaces, too.
314 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
315 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
316 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
318 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
319 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
320 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
321 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
322 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
323 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
324 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
325 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
326 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
327 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
329 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
330 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
331 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
332 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
333 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
334 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
335 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
336 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
338 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
339 been added. Portability fixes.
340 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
341 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
342 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
344 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
347 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
348 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
349 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
350 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
351 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
352 providing an OpenBSD system.
353 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
354 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
356 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
357 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
358 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
359 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
360 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
361 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
363 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
364 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
365 initialized, the daemon may crash.
366 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
368 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
369 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
371 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
372 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
373 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
375 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
376 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
377 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
378 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
380 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
381 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
382 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
383 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
385 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
386 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
387 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
388 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
389 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
390 provide these necessary functions.
391 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
392 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
394 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
395 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
396 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
397 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
399 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
400 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
401 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
402 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
403 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
404 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
406 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
407 invalid configuration options.
408 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
409 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
410 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
412 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
413 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
414 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
415 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
417 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
418 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
419 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
420 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
421 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
422 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
423 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
424 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
426 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
427 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
428 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
429 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
430 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
431 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
432 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
433 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
434 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
435 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
436 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
437 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
439 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
440 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
443 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
444 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
445 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
447 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
448 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
449 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
450 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
451 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
452 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
454 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
455 email, using the `esmtp' library.
456 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
457 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
459 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
460 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
461 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
462 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
464 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
465 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
466 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
467 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
468 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
470 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
471 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
472 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
474 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
475 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
476 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
477 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
479 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
480 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
481 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
482 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
483 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
484 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
485 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
486 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
487 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
488 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
489 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
490 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
492 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
493 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
494 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
496 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
497 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
498 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
499 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
501 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
502 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
503 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
504 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
505 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
506 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
507 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
508 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
510 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
511 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
512 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
513 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
514 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
515 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
516 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
519 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
520 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
521 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
523 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
524 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
526 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
527 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
528 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
529 architecture collectd is being built on.
530 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
532 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
534 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
535 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
536 values under Solaris.
537 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
538 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
540 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
541 returned by some broken drivers.
543 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
544 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
545 to kyrone for reporting this.
546 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
548 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
550 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
551 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
552 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
553 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
555 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
556 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
557 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
558 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
559 flush its values to disk.
560 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
561 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
562 for each data source.
563 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
565 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
566 page of an Ascent server.
567 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
568 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
569 specific disks has been added.
570 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
571 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
572 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
574 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
575 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
576 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
577 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
578 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
579 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
580 configuration has been decreased.
581 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
582 continuously reading from log files.
583 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
584 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
585 and number of channels.
586 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
587 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
588 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
590 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
591 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
593 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
595 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
596 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
597 again has been applied.
598 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
600 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
601 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
603 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
604 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
605 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
608 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
609 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
610 they are in non-standard paths.
611 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
612 if the libc expects it.
613 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
614 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
616 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
617 using a buffer of static size.
618 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
620 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
621 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
623 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
624 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
625 `Persist' threshold options.
626 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
627 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
628 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
629 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
630 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
632 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
633 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
635 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
636 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
637 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
638 cross-platform compatibility.
639 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
640 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
641 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
643 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
644 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
645 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
646 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
647 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
648 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
650 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
651 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
652 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
653 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
654 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
655 wants to add custom type definitions.
656 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
657 entire directories and shell wildcards.
658 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
659 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
660 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
661 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
662 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
663 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
664 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
665 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
666 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
667 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
668 domain name lookups in this plugin.
669 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
670 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
671 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
672 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
673 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
674 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
675 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
676 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
677 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
678 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
679 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
680 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
681 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
682 Technology group for this plugin.
684 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
685 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
686 they are in non-standard paths.
687 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
688 if the libc expects it.
689 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
690 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
692 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
693 using a buffer of static size.
694 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
696 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
697 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
699 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
700 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
701 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
702 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
703 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
705 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
706 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
707 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
709 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
710 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
711 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
712 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
713 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
714 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
715 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
716 cross-platform compatibility.
717 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
718 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
719 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
720 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
722 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
723 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
724 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
725 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
726 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
728 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
729 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
730 of the libsensors library.
732 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
733 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
734 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
736 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
737 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
740 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
741 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
743 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
745 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
746 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
747 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
748 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
749 definitions separate from the host definitions.
750 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
751 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
752 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
753 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
754 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
755 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
756 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
757 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
758 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
759 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
760 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
761 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
762 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
763 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
764 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
765 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
766 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
767 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
768 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
769 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
770 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
772 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
773 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
774 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
775 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
776 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
778 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
779 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
781 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
782 of the libsensors library.
784 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
785 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
786 it's in a non-standard location.
787 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
788 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
789 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
790 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
791 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
792 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
794 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
795 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
797 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
798 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
800 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
801 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
802 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
803 noise quality as percentage.
804 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
805 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
806 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
807 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
808 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
809 support for the `timeticks' type.
811 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
812 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
813 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
814 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
816 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
817 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
818 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
820 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
821 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
822 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
823 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
825 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
826 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
827 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
828 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
830 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
831 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
832 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
833 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
834 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
835 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
836 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
837 to not block data collection.
838 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
839 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
840 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
842 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
843 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
844 of music played with xmms.
846 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
847 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
848 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
849 noise quality as percentage.
850 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
852 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
853 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
854 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
855 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
857 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
858 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
859 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
860 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
862 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
863 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
865 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
866 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
867 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
868 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
869 (i. e. without quotes).
870 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
871 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
872 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
874 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
875 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
876 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
877 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
879 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
880 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
881 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
884 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
885 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
887 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
888 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
889 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
890 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
891 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
892 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
893 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
895 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
896 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
897 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
898 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
899 initialized correctly.
900 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
902 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
903 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
904 they're given in numerically form.
906 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
907 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
908 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
911 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
912 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
913 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
914 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
915 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
916 thread-safe functions from now on.
917 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
918 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
919 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
921 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
922 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
923 write to increase IO-performance.
924 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
925 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
926 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
927 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
928 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
930 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
931 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
932 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
934 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
935 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
936 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
938 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
939 system's syslog daemon.
940 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
941 entropy currently being available to the system.
942 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
943 back values provided by the forked processes.
944 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
945 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
947 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
948 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
949 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
950 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
951 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
952 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
953 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
954 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
955 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
957 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
958 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
959 noise quality as percentage.
961 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
962 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
964 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
965 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
966 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
967 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
968 were accounted as `zombies'.
970 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
971 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
974 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
975 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
976 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
978 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
979 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
980 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
981 segfault with some libcs.
983 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
984 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
986 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
988 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
989 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
991 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
992 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
993 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
994 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
995 write init.d-scripts for it.
996 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
997 caused problems every now and then.
998 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
999 filesystem types or devices.
1000 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
1001 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
1003 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
1004 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
1005 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
1006 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
1007 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
1008 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
1009 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
1010 segment size and pagefaults.
1011 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
1012 queries multimeters.
1013 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
1014 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
1015 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
1017 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
1018 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
1019 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
1020 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
1022 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
1023 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
1024 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
1025 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
1028 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
1029 * The sample config file has been improved.
1030 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
1031 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
1032 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
1033 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
1035 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
1036 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
1037 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
1039 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
1040 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
1042 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
1043 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
1044 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
1045 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
1047 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
1048 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
1049 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
1050 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
1051 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
1052 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
1053 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
1054 with a test environment :)
1055 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
1058 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
1059 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
1060 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
1062 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
1063 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
1064 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
1066 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
1067 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
1068 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
1070 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
1071 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
1073 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
1074 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1075 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1076 approximately 7.6 days.
1078 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
1079 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1080 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1081 approximately 7.6 days.
1083 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
1084 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
1086 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1088 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1090 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1091 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1092 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1093 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1094 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1096 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1097 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1098 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1099 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1100 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1101 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1102 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1103 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1105 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1106 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1107 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1108 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1110 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1111 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1112 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1114 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1115 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1116 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1118 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1119 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1120 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1123 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1124 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1125 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1127 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1128 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1129 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1130 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1132 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1133 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1134 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1136 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1137 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1139 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1140 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1142 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1143 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1145 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1146 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1148 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1149 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1150 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1151 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1152 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1153 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1154 address and/or port than localhost.
1155 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1156 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1157 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1158 be set in the configfile.
1160 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1161 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1162 client mode. This released fixes this.
1164 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1165 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1166 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1169 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1170 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1172 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1173 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1174 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1175 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1177 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1178 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1179 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1182 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1183 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1184 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1186 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1187 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1188 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1189 currently logged in users.
1190 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1191 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1192 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1193 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1195 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1196 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1197 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1198 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1199 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1200 with the `-c' argument.
1201 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1202 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1203 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1204 Barcellos for this patch.
1206 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1207 * New modules have been added:
1208 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1209 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1210 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1211 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1213 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1214 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1216 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1217 between polls up to one day.
1218 * The init.d files have been improved.
1219 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1221 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1222 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1223 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1225 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1226 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1227 multicast) has been added.
1228 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1229 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1230 to be linked against an external library.
1231 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1232 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1234 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1235 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1237 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1238 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1239 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1240 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1241 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1242 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1243 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1244 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1245 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1248 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1249 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1251 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1253 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1254 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1256 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1257 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1258 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1259 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1261 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1262 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1263 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1265 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1266 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1267 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1268 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1269 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1270 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1271 statistics will not work.
1273 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1274 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1275 weird strings as disk-names..
1277 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1278 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1279 about the disks and partitions.
1281 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1282 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1283 and/or kernel versions.
1285 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1286 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1287 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1289 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1290 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1291 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1293 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1294 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1296 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1297 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1299 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1301 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1302 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1304 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1305 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob