1 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
3 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
4 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
5 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
6 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
7 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for hit
9 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
10 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
11 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
12 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
13 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
14 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
15 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
16 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
17 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
18 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
19 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
21 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
22 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
23 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
24 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
25 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
26 Aman Gupta for the patch.
27 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
28 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
29 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
30 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
31 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
33 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
34 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
36 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
37 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
38 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
39 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
40 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
41 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
42 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
43 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
44 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
45 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
46 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
47 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
48 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
49 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
51 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
52 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
53 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
54 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
55 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
56 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
58 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
59 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
60 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
61 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
62 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
63 Hess for reporting this bug.
64 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
65 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
66 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
67 is linked with the shipped library, too.
68 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
69 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
70 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
71 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
72 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
73 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
74 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
75 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
76 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
77 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
78 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
79 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
80 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
83 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
84 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
86 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
87 Díaz for fixing this bug.
88 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
89 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
90 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
91 for reporting the bug.
92 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
94 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
95 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
96 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
97 libtool 2.2 has been added.
98 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
99 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
100 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
101 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
102 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
104 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
105 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
106 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
107 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
108 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
110 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
111 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
113 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
114 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
115 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
116 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
117 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
118 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
119 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
120 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
121 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
122 Konetzko for the patch.
123 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
124 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
125 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
126 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
127 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
128 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
129 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
130 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
131 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
132 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
133 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
134 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
135 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
136 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
137 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
138 Quiédeville for the patch.
139 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
141 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
142 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
143 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
144 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
145 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
146 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
147 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
148 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
150 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
151 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
152 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
153 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
154 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
155 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
157 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
158 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
159 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
160 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
162 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
163 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
164 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
165 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
166 Hess for reporting this bug.
167 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
168 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
169 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
170 is linked with the shipped library, too.
171 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
172 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
173 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
174 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
175 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
178 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
179 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
180 Díaz for fixing this bug.
181 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
182 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
183 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
184 for reporting the bug.
186 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
187 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
188 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
189 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
190 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
191 providing an OpenBSD system.
192 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
193 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
194 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
195 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
196 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
198 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
200 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
201 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
202 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
203 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
204 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
206 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
207 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
208 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
210 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
211 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
212 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
213 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
215 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
216 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
217 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
218 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
219 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
220 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
221 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
222 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
223 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
224 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
225 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
226 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
227 initialized, the daemon may crash.
229 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
230 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
231 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
232 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
233 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
234 for finding and fixing most of them.
235 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
236 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
238 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
239 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
240 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
241 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
242 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
243 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
244 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
245 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
246 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
247 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
248 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
250 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
251 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
252 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
253 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
255 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
256 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
257 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
258 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
259 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
260 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
261 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
262 Kuhnle for the patch.
263 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
264 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
265 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
266 MacEachern for the patch.
267 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
268 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
269 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
270 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
271 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
272 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
273 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
274 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
275 select interfaces, too.
276 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
277 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
278 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
280 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
281 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
282 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
283 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
284 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
285 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
286 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
287 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
288 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
289 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
291 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
292 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
293 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
294 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
295 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
296 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
297 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
298 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
300 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
301 been added. Portability fixes.
302 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
303 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
304 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
306 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
309 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
310 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
311 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
312 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
313 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
314 providing an OpenBSD system.
315 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
316 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
318 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
319 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
320 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
321 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
322 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
323 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
325 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
326 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
327 initialized, the daemon may crash.
328 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
330 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
331 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
333 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
334 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
335 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
337 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
338 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
339 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
340 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
342 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
343 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
344 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
345 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
347 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
348 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
349 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
350 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
351 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
352 provide these necessary functions.
353 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
354 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
356 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
357 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
358 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
359 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
361 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
362 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
363 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
364 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
365 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
366 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
368 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
369 invalid configuration options.
370 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
371 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
372 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
374 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
375 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
376 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
377 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
379 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
380 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
381 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
382 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
383 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
384 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
385 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
386 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
388 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
389 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
390 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
391 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
392 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
393 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
394 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
395 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
396 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
397 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
398 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
399 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
401 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
402 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
405 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
406 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
407 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
409 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
410 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
411 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
412 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
413 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
414 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
416 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
417 email, using the `esmtp' library.
418 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
419 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
421 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
422 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
423 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
424 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
426 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
427 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
428 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
429 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
430 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
432 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
433 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
434 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
436 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
437 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
438 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
439 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
441 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
442 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
443 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
444 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
445 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
446 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
447 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
448 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
449 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
450 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
451 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
452 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
454 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
455 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
456 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
458 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
459 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
460 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
461 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
463 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
464 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
465 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
466 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
467 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
468 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
469 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
470 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
472 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
473 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
474 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
475 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
476 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
477 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
478 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
481 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
482 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
483 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
485 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
486 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
488 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
489 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
490 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
491 architecture collectd is being built on.
492 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
494 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
496 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
497 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
498 values under Solaris.
499 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
500 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
502 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
503 returned by some broken drivers.
505 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
506 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
507 to kyrone for reporting this.
508 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
510 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
512 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
513 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
514 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
515 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
517 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
518 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
519 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
520 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
521 flush its values to disk.
522 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
523 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
524 for each data source.
525 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
527 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
528 page of an Ascent server.
529 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
530 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
531 specific disks has been added.
532 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
533 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
534 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
536 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
537 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
538 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
539 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
540 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
541 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
542 configuration has been decreased.
543 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
544 continuously reading from log files.
545 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
546 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
547 and number of channels.
548 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
549 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
550 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
552 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
553 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
555 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
557 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
558 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
559 again has been applied.
560 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
562 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
563 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
565 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
566 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
567 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
570 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
571 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
572 they are in non-standard paths.
573 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
574 if the libc expects it.
575 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
576 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
578 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
579 using a buffer of static size.
580 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
582 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
583 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
585 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
586 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
587 `Persist' threshold options.
588 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
589 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
590 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
591 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
592 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
594 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
595 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
597 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
598 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
599 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
600 cross-platform compatibility.
601 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
602 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
603 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
605 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
606 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
607 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
608 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
609 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
610 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
612 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
613 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
614 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
615 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
616 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
617 wants to add custom type definitions.
618 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
619 entire directories and shell wildcards.
620 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
621 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
622 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
623 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
624 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
625 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
626 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
627 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
628 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
629 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
630 domain name lookups in this plugin.
631 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
632 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
633 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
634 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
635 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
636 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
637 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
638 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
639 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
640 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
641 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
642 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
643 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
644 Technology group for this plugin.
646 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
647 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
648 they are in non-standard paths.
649 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
650 if the libc expects it.
651 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
652 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
654 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
655 using a buffer of static size.
656 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
658 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
659 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
661 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
662 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
663 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
664 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
665 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
667 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
668 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
669 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
671 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
672 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
673 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
674 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
675 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
676 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
677 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
678 cross-platform compatibility.
679 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
680 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
681 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
682 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
684 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
685 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
686 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
687 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
688 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
690 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
691 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
692 of the libsensors library.
694 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
695 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
696 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
698 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
699 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
702 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
703 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
705 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
707 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
708 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
709 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
710 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
711 definitions separate from the host definitions.
712 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
713 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
714 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
715 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
716 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
717 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
718 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
719 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
720 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
721 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
722 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
723 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
724 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
725 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
726 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
727 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
728 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
729 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
730 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
731 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
732 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
734 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
735 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
736 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
737 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
738 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
740 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
741 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
743 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
744 of the libsensors library.
746 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
747 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
748 it's in a non-standard location.
749 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
750 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
751 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
752 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
753 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
754 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
756 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
757 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
759 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
760 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
762 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
763 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
764 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
765 noise quality as percentage.
766 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
767 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
768 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
769 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
770 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
771 support for the `timeticks' type.
773 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
774 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
775 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
776 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
778 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
779 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
780 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
782 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
783 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
784 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
785 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
787 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
788 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
789 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
790 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
792 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
793 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
794 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
795 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
796 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
797 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
798 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
799 to not block data collection.
800 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
801 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
802 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
804 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
805 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
806 of music played with xmms.
808 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
809 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
810 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
811 noise quality as percentage.
812 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
814 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
815 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
816 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
817 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
819 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
820 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
821 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
822 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
824 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
825 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
827 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
828 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
829 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
830 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
831 (i. e. without quotes).
832 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
833 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
834 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
836 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
837 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
838 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
839 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
841 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
842 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
843 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
846 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
847 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
849 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
850 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
851 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
852 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
853 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
854 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
855 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
857 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
858 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
859 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
860 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
861 initialized correctly.
862 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
864 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
865 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
866 they're given in numerically form.
868 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
869 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
870 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
873 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
874 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
875 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
876 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
877 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
878 thread-safe functions from now on.
879 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
880 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
881 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
883 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
884 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
885 write to increase IO-performance.
886 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
887 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
888 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
889 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
890 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
892 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
893 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
894 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
896 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
897 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
898 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
900 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
901 system's syslog daemon.
902 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
903 entropy currently being available to the system.
904 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
905 back values provided by the forked processes.
906 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
907 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
909 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
910 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
911 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
912 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
913 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
914 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
915 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
916 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
917 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
919 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
920 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
921 noise quality as percentage.
923 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
924 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
926 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
927 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
928 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
929 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
930 were accounted as `zombies'.
932 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
933 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
936 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
937 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
938 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
940 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
941 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
942 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
943 segfault with some libcs.
945 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
946 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
948 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
950 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
951 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
953 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
954 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
955 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
956 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
957 write init.d-scripts for it.
958 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
959 caused problems every now and then.
960 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
961 filesystem types or devices.
962 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
963 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
965 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
966 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
967 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
968 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
969 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
970 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
971 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
972 segment size and pagefaults.
973 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
975 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
976 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
977 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
979 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
980 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
981 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
982 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
984 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
985 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
986 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
987 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
990 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
991 * The sample config file has been improved.
992 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
993 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
994 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
995 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
997 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
998 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
999 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
1001 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
1002 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
1004 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
1005 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
1006 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
1007 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
1009 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
1010 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
1011 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
1012 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
1013 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
1014 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
1015 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
1016 with a test environment :)
1017 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
1020 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
1021 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
1022 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
1024 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
1025 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
1026 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
1028 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
1029 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
1030 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
1032 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
1033 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
1035 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
1036 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1037 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1038 approximately 7.6 days.
1040 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
1041 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1042 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1043 approximately 7.6 days.
1045 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
1046 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
1048 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1050 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1052 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1053 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1054 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1055 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1056 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1058 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1059 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1060 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1061 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1062 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1063 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1064 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1065 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1067 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1068 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1069 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1070 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1072 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1073 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1074 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1076 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1077 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1078 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1080 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1081 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1082 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1085 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1086 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1087 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1089 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1090 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1091 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1092 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1094 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1095 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1096 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1098 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1099 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1101 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1102 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1104 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1105 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1107 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1108 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1110 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1111 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1112 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1113 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1114 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1115 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1116 address and/or port than localhost.
1117 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1118 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1119 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1120 be set in the configfile.
1122 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1123 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1124 client mode. This released fixes this.
1126 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1127 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1128 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1131 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1132 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1134 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1135 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1136 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1137 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1139 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1140 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1141 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1144 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1145 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1146 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1148 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1149 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1150 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1151 currently logged in users.
1152 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1153 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1154 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1155 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1157 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1158 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1159 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1160 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1161 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1162 with the `-c' argument.
1163 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1164 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1165 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1166 Barcellos for this patch.
1168 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1169 * New modules have been added:
1170 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1171 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1172 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1173 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1175 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1176 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1178 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1179 between polls up to one day.
1180 * The init.d files have been improved.
1181 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1183 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1184 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1185 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1187 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1188 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1189 multicast) has been added.
1190 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1191 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1192 to be linked against an external library.
1193 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1194 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1196 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1197 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1199 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1200 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1201 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1202 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1203 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1204 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1205 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1206 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1207 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1210 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1211 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1213 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1215 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1216 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1218 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1219 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1220 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1221 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1223 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1224 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1225 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1227 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1228 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1229 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1230 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1231 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1232 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1233 statistics will not work.
1235 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1236 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1237 weird strings as disk-names..
1239 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1240 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1241 about the disks and partitions.
1243 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1244 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1245 and/or kernel versions.
1247 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1248 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1249 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1251 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1252 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1253 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1255 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1256 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1258 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1259 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1261 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1263 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1264 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1266 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1267 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob