* collectd is able to collect the following data:
+ - Apache server utilization
+ (Number of bytes transfered, number of requests handled and detailed
+ scoreboard statistics)
+
+ - Apple Sensors
+ (Temperature, fanspeed and voltage sensors of apple computers)
+
+ - Battery
+ (Charge, current and charge of ACPI and PMU based batteries)
+
- CPU utilization
(Time spent in system, user, nice and idle)
- Process counts
(Number of running, sleeping, zombie, ... processes)
- - Serial
- (RX and TX of serial interfaces)
-
- Sensors
(System temperatured and fan rotation speeds)
+ - Serial
+ (RX and TX of serial interfaces)
+
- Swap
(Pages swapped out onto harddisk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS..)
- VServer
(System ressources used by vservers)
+ - Wireless
+ (Link quality of wireless cards)
+
* Performance: Running as a daemon collectd doesn't spend much time in
startup. Since collectd links against libping, librrd and libsensors it
doesn't need to start any other processes.