needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's
done.
- * Filtering and rewriting values dispatched to collectd can be done by the
- following plugins:
-
- - filter_pcre
- Filter and rewrite value lists based on Perl-compatible regular
- expressions.
-
* Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
Notifications are propagated to plugins written in Perl as well.
See collectd-perl(5).
+ * Value processing can be controlled using the "filter chain" infrastructure
+ and "matches" and "targets". The following plugins are available:
+
+ - match_regex
+ Match values by their identifier based on regular expressions.
+
+ - match_timediff
+ Match values with an invalid timestamp.
+
+ - match_value
+ Select values by their data sources' values.
+
+ - target_notification
+ Create and dispatch a notification.
+
+ - target_replace
+ Replace parts of an identifier using regular expressions.
+
+ - target_set
+ Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
+
* Miscellaneous plugins:
- uuid