Merge branch 'collectd-5.5'

[collectd.git] / src / collectd.conf.pod

diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod
index ee009ee..3e43ca2 100644 (file)
--- a/src/collectd.conf.pod
+++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod
@@ -7139,14 +7139,18 @@ setting B<name>.
 B<address> means use the interface's mac address. This is useful since the
 interface path might change between reboots of a guest or across migrations.
 
-=item B<PluginInstanceFormat> B<name|uuid>
+=item B<PluginInstanceFormat> B<name|uuid|none>
 
 When the virt plugin logs data, it sets the plugin_instance of the collected
-data according to this setting. The default is to use the guest name as provided
-by the hypervisor, which is equal to setting B<name>.
+data according to this setting. The default is to not set the plugin_instance.
 
+B<name> means use the guest's name as provided by the hypervisor.
 B<uuid> means use the guest's UUID.
 
+You can also specify combinations of the B<name> and B<uuid> fields.
+For example B<name uuid> means to concatenate the guest name and UUID
+(with a literal colon character between, thus I<"foo:1234-1234-1234-1234">).
+
 =back
 
 =head2 Plugin C<vmem>
@@ -7754,7 +7758,7 @@ C<ds_type:derive:rate>.
 
 =item B<AlwaysAppendDS> B<false>|B<true>
 
-If set the B<true>, append the name of the I<Data Source> (DS) to the
+If set to B<true>, append the name of the I<Data Source> (DS) to the
 "service", i.e. the field that, together with the "host" field, uniquely
 identifies a metric in I<Riemann>. If set to B<false> (the default), this is
 only done when there is more than one DS.