* collectd is able to collect the following data:
- apache
- Apache server utilization: Number of bytes transfered, number of
+ Apache server utilization: Number of bytes transferred, number of
requests handled and detailed scoreboard statistics
- apcups
APC UPS Daemon: UPS charge, load, input/output/battery voltage, etc.
- apple_sensors
- Sensors in Macs running Mac OS X / Darwin: Temperature, fanspeed and
+ Sensors in Macs running Mac OS X / Darwin: Temperature, fan speed and
voltage sensors.
- aquaero
- Various sensors in the Aquaero 5 watercooling board made by Aquacomputer.
+ Various sensors in the Aquaero 5 water cooling board made by Aquacomputer.
- ascent
Statistics about Ascent, a free server for the game `World of Warcraft'.
- dns
DNS traffic: Query types, response codes, opcodes and traffic/octets
- transfered.
+ transferred.
+
+ - drbd
+ Collect individual drbd resource statistics.
- email
Email statistics: Count, traffic, spam scores and checks.
Receive multicast traffic from Ganglia instances.
- hddtemp
- Harddisk temperatures using hddtempd.
+ Hard disk temperatures using hddtempd.
- interface
Interface traffic: Number of octets, packets and errors for each
Detailed CPU statistics of the “Logical Partitions” virtualization
technique built into IBM's POWER processors.
- - libvirt
- CPU, memory, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
-
- lvm
Size of “Logical Volumes” (LV) and “Volume Groups” (VG) of Linux'
“Logical Volume Manager” (LVM).
interfaces that use the Atheros chipset and the MadWifi driver.
- mbmon
- Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information,
+ Motherboard sensors: temperature, fan speed and voltage information,
using mbmon(1).
- md
Read onewire sensors using the owcapu library of the owfs project.
Please read in collectd.conf(5) why this plugin is experimental.
+ - openldap
+ Read monitoring information from OpenLDAP's cn=Monitor subtree.
+
- openvpn
RX and TX of each client in openvpn-status.log (status-version 2).
<http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html>
See collectd-python(5) for details.
- redis
- The redis plugin gathers information from a redis server, including:
+ The redis plugin gathers information from a Redis server, including:
uptime, used memory, total connections etc.
- routeros
to have its measurements fed to collectd. This includes multimeters,
sound level meters, thermometers, and much more.
+ - smart
+ Collect SMART statistics, notably load cycle count, temperature
+ and bad sectors.
+
- snmp
Read values from SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) enabled
network devices such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack monitoring
clients and calculating rates and other aggregates out of these values.
- swap
- Pages swapped out onto harddisk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS..
+ Pages swapped out onto hard disk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS..
- table
Parse table-like structured files.
- tail
- Follows (tails) logfiles, parses them by lines and submits matched
+ Follows (tails) log files, parses them by lines and submits matched
values.
- tail_csv
- varnish
Various statistics from Varnish, an HTTP accelerator.
+ - virt
+ CPU, memory, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
+
- vmem
Virtual memory statistics, e. g. the number of page-ins/-outs or the
number of pagefaults.
- zfs_arc
Statistics for ZFS' “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC).
+ - zookeeper
+ Read data from Zookeeper's MNTR command.
+
* Output can be written or sent to various destinations by the following
plugins:
can be configured to avoid logging send errors (especially useful when
using UDP).
+ - write_tsdb
+ Sends data OpenTSDB, a scalable no master, no shared state time series
+ database.
+
- write_http
Sends the values collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST
requests. The transmitted data is either in a form understood by the
- write_kafka
Sends data to Apache Kafka, a distributed queue.
+ - write_log
+ Writes data to the log
+
- write_mongodb
Sends data to MongoDB, a NoSQL database.
values are out of bounds. See collectd-threshold(5) for details.
- uuid
- Sets the hostname to an unique identifier. This is meant for setups
+ Sets the hostname to a unique identifier. This is meant for setups
where each client may migrate to another physical host, possibly going
through one or more name changes in the process.
time starting up again and again. With the exception of the exec plugin no
processes are forked. Caching in output plugins, such as the rrdtool and
network plugins, makes sure your resources are used efficiently. Also,
- since collectd is programmed multithreaded it benefits from hyperthreading
+ since collectd is programmed multithreaded it benefits from hyper-threading
and multicore processors and makes sure that the daemon isn't idle if only
one plugin waits for an IO-operation to complete.
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* collectd's configuration file can be found at `sysconfdir'/collectd.conf.
- Run `collectd -h' for a list of builtin defaults. See `collectd.conf(5)'
+ Run `collectd -h' for a list of built-in defaults. See `collectd.conf(5)'
for a list of options and a syntax description.
* When the `csv' or `rrdtool' plugins are loaded they'll write the values to
particular.
<http://developer.apple.com/corefoundation/>
+ * libatasmart (optional)
+ Used by the `smart' plugin.
+ <http://git.0pointer.de/?p=libatasmart.git>
+
* libclntsh (optional)
Used by the `oracle' plugin.
- * libcredis (optional)
- Used by the `redis' plugin. Please note that you require a 0.2.2 version
- or higher. <http://code.google.com/p/credis/>
+ * libhiredis (optional)
+ Used by the redis plugin. Please note that you require a 0.10.0 version
+ or higher. <https://github.com/redis/hiredis>
* libcurl (optional)
If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `bind', `curl', `curl_json',
libjvm” below.
<http://openjdk.java.net/> (and others)
+ * libldap (optional)
+ Used by the `openldap' plugin.
+ <http://www.openldap.org/>
+
* liblvm2 (optional)
Used by the `lvm' plugin.
<ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/>
* libxml2 (optional)
Parse XML data. This is needed for the `ascent', `bind', `curl_xml' and
- `libvirt' plugins.
+ `virt' plugins.
<http://xmlsoft.org/>
* libxmms (optional)
Adding "-ljvm" to the JAVA_LDFLAGS is done automatically, you don't have to
do that.
+Generating the configure script
+-------------------------------
+
+Collectd ships with a `build.sh' script to generate the `configure'
+script shipped with releases.
+
+To generate the `configure` script, you'll need the following dependencies:
+
+- autoconf
+- automke
+- flex
+- bison
+- libtool
+- libtool-ltdl
+
+The `build.sh' script takes no arguments.
+
Crosscompiling
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