1 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
3 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
4 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
5 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
6 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
7 with a test environment :)
8 * A plugin for moniroting an NTP instance and the local clock drift
11 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
12 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
13 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
15 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
16 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
18 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
19 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
20 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
21 approximately 7.6 days.
23 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
24 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
25 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
26 approximately 7.6 days.
28 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
29 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
31 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
33 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
35 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
36 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
37 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
38 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
39 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
41 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
42 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
43 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
44 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `hearbeat'
45 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
46 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
47 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
48 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
50 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
51 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
52 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
53 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
55 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
56 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
57 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
59 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
60 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
61 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
63 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
64 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
65 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
68 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
69 * Fixes for building collectd unter FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
70 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
72 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
73 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
74 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
75 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
77 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
78 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
79 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thankt to Sebastian for
81 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
82 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
84 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
85 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
87 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
88 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
90 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
91 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
93 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
94 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
95 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
96 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
97 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
98 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
99 address and/or port than localhost.
100 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
101 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
102 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
103 be set in the configfile.
105 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
106 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
107 client mode. This released fixes this.
109 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
110 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
111 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
114 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
115 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
117 * A `df' plugin has been added.
118 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
119 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
120 occured, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
122 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
123 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
124 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
127 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
128 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
129 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
131 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
132 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
133 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
134 currently logged in users.
135 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
136 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
137 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
138 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
140 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
141 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
142 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
143 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
144 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
145 with the `-c' argument.
146 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
147 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
148 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
149 Barcellos for this patch.
151 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
152 * New modules have been added:
153 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
154 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
155 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
156 * The the memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
158 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
159 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
161 * If reading from hddtemp failes collectd will increase the time
162 between polls up to one day.
163 * The init.d files have been improved.
164 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
166 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
167 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
168 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
170 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
171 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
172 multicast) has been added.
173 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
174 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
175 to be linked against an external library.
176 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
177 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
179 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
180 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
182 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
183 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
184 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
185 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If privided under Linux IRQ and
186 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
187 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
188 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
189 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
190 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
193 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
194 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
196 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update failes.
198 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
199 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
201 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
202 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
203 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
204 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
206 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
207 aren't neccessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
208 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
210 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
211 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
212 collected unter Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
213 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
214 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added unter contrib/museum
215 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
216 statistics will not work.
218 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
219 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
220 weird strings as disk-names..
222 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
223 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
224 about the disks and partitions.
226 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
227 * The meminfo mofule has been changed to work with more platforms
228 and/or kernel versions.
230 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
231 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
232 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
234 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
235 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
236 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
238 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
239 * Collecting CPU statistics now
241 2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
242 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
244 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
246 2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
247 * Nothing really usefull to say ;)
249 2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
250 * The following modules are provided: