other plugins, its documentation has been moved to an own manpage,
L<collectd-snmp(5)>. Please see there for details.
-=head2 Plugin C<snort>
-
-The I<snort plugin> reads the statistics file written by I<Snort>, a free
-network intrusion detection system (IDS). The file is written by Snort's
-I<Performance Monitor> preprocessor and needs to be configured to write to a
-file.
-
-B<Synopsis:>
-
- <Plugin "snort">
- <Metric "dropped">
- Type "percent"
- Instance "dropped"
- Index 1
- </Metric>
- <Instance "eth0">
- Path "/var/log/snort/snort.stats"
- Interval 600
- Collect "dropped"
- </Instance>
- </Plugin>
-
-The configuration consists of one or more B<Metric> blocks that define an index
-into the line written by I<Snort> and how this value is mapped to I<collectd's>
-internal representation. These are followed by one or more B<Instance> blocks
-which configure which file to read, in which interval and which metrics to
-extract.
-
-=over 4
-
-=item E<lt>B<Metric> I<Name>E<gt>
-
-The B<Metric> block configures a new metric to be extracted from the statistics
-file and how it is mapped on I<collectd's> data model. The string I<Name> is
-only used inside the B<Instance> blocks to refer to this block, so you can use
-one B<Metric> block for multiple I<Snort> instances.
-
-=over 4
-
-=item B<Type> I<Type>
-
-Configures which I<Type> to use when dispatching this metric. Types are defined
-in the L<types.db(5)> file, see the appropriate manual page for more
-information on specifying types. Only types with a single I<data source> are
-supported by the I<snort plugin>. The information whether the value is an
-absolute value (i.e. a C<GAUGE>) or a rate (i.e. a C<DERIVE>) is taken from the
-I<Type's> definition.
-
-=item B<Instance> I<TypeInstance>
-
-If set, I<TypeInstance> is used to populate the type instance field of the
-created value lists. Otherwise, no type instance is used.
-
-=item B<Index> I<Index>
-
-Each line in the statistics file is broken into many fields with the first
-field, the timestamp of the line, is index with zero. This option configures to
-read the value from the field with index I<Index>. Since the first field is
-always the timestamp, I<Index> must be greater than zero.
-
-=back
-
-=item E<lt>B<Instance> I<Name>E<gt>
-
-Configures an instance of I<Snort> to extract values for. The block's I<Name>
-will be used as I<plugin instance> when dispatching the values and is used to
-support multiple separate I<Snort> instances. There must be at least one
-I<Instance> block but there can be multiple if you have multiple instances of
-I<Snort> running.
-
-=over 4
-
-=item B<Path> I<Path>
-
-Configures the I<Path> to the statistics file to read.
-
-=item B<Collect> I<Metric>
-
-Specifies which I<Metric> to collect. This option must be specified at least
-once, and you can use this option multiple times to specify more than one
-metric to be extracted from this statistic file.
-
-=item B<Interval> I<Seconds>
-
-Configures the interval in which to read values from this instance / file. This
-should match the interval in which I<Snort's> performance monitor is writing to
-the file. Defaults to the plugin's default interval.
-
-=back
-
-=back
-
=head2 Plugin C<swap>
The I<Swap plugin> collects information about used and available swap space. On
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<tail_csv>
+
+The I<tail_csv plugin> reads files in the CSV format, e.g. the statistics file
+written by I<Snort>.
+
+B<Synopsis:>
+
+ <Plugin "tail_csv">
+ <Metric "snort-dropped">
+ Type "percent"
+ Instance "dropped"
+ Index 1
+ </Metric>
+ <File "/var/log/snort/snort.stats">
+ Instance "snort-eth0"
+ Interval 600
+ Collect "snort-dropped"
+ </File>
+ </Plugin>
+
+The configuration consists of one or more B<Metric> blocks that define an index
+into the line of the CSV file and how this value is mapped to I<collectd's>
+internal representation. These are followed by one or more B<Instance> blocks
+which configure which file to read, in which interval and which metrics to
+extract.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item E<lt>B<Metric> I<Name>E<gt>
+
+The B<Metric> block configures a new metric to be extracted from the statistics
+file and how it is mapped on I<collectd's> data model. The string I<Name> is
+only used inside the B<Instance> blocks to refer to this block, so you can use
+one B<Metric> block for multiple CSV files.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Type> I<Type>
+
+Configures which I<Type> to use when dispatching this metric. Types are defined
+in the L<types.db(5)> file, see the appropriate manual page for more
+information on specifying types. Only types with a single I<data source> are
+supported by the I<tail_csv plugin>. The information whether the value is an
+absolute value (i.e. a C<GAUGE>) or a rate (i.e. a C<DERIVE>) is taken from the
+I<Type's> definition.
+
+=item B<Instance> I<TypeInstance>
+
+If set, I<TypeInstance> is used to populate the type instance field of the
+created value lists. Otherwise, no type instance is used.
+
+=item B<ValueFrom> I<Index>
+
+Each line in the statistics file is broken into many fields with the first
+field, the timestamp of the line, is index with zero. This option configures to
+read the value from the field with index I<Index>.
+
+=back
+
+=item E<lt>B<File> I<Path>E<gt>
+
+Each B<File> block represents one CSV file to read. There must be at least one
+I<File> block but there can be multiple if you have multiple CSV files.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Instance> I<PluginInstance>
+
+Sets the I<plugin instance> used when dispatching the values.
+
+=item B<Collect> I<Metric>
+
+Specifies which I<Metric> to collect. This option must be specified at least
+once, and you can use this option multiple times to specify more than one
+metric to be extracted from this statistic file.
+
+=item B<Interval> I<Seconds>
+
+Configures the interval in which to read values from this instance / file.
+Defaults to the plugin's default interval.
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<teamspeak2>
The C<teamspeak2 plugin> connects to the query port of a teamspeak2 server and
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