1 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
2 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
3 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
4 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
5 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
7 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
8 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
9 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
10 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
12 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
14 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
15 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
16 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
17 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
18 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
19 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
20 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
21 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
22 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
23 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
24 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
25 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
26 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
27 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
28 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
30 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
31 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
32 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
33 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
34 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
35 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
36 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
37 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
38 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
39 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
40 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
41 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
42 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
43 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
44 Forster and Marc Fournier.
45 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
46 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
47 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
48 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
49 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
50 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
51 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
52 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
53 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
54 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
55 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
56 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
57 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
58 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
59 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
60 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
61 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
63 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
64 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
65 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
66 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
67 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
68 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
69 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
70 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
71 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
72 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
73 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
74 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
75 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
76 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
77 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
79 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
80 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
82 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
83 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
84 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
85 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
86 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
87 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
88 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
89 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
90 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
91 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
92 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
93 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
94 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
95 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
96 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
97 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
98 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
99 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
100 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
101 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
102 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
103 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
104 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
105 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
106 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
107 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
108 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
109 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
110 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
111 Mark Wong. #317, #321
112 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
113 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
114 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
115 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
116 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
117 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
119 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
120 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
121 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
122 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
123 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
124 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
125 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
126 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
128 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
129 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
130 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
131 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
132 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
133 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
134 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
135 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
137 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
138 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
139 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
140 to Matt Cottingham. #622
141 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
142 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
143 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
144 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
146 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
147 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
148 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
149 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
150 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
151 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
152 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
153 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
155 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
156 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
157 #248, #621, #699, #824
158 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
159 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
160 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
161 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
162 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
163 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
164 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
166 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
167 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
168 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
169 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
170 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
171 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
172 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
173 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
175 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
176 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
178 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
179 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
180 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
181 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
182 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
184 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
185 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
186 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
187 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
188 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
189 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
190 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
192 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
193 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
194 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
195 #464, #475, #799, #1030
196 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
197 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
198 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
199 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
200 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
201 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
202 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
203 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
204 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
205 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
206 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
207 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
208 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
210 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
211 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
212 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
213 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
215 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
216 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
217 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
218 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
219 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
220 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
221 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
222 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
223 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
224 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
225 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
226 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
227 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
228 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
229 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
231 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
232 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
233 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
234 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
235 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
237 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
238 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
239 Florian Forster. #625
240 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
241 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
242 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
243 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
244 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
245 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
246 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
248 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
249 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
251 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
252 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
253 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
254 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
255 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
256 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
257 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
258 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
259 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
260 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
261 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
262 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
263 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
264 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
265 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
266 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
267 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
268 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
269 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
270 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
271 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
272 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
273 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
274 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
275 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
276 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
277 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
278 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
280 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
281 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
282 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
283 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
285 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
286 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
287 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
289 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
291 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
292 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
293 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
294 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
295 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
296 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
297 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
298 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
299 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
300 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
301 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
302 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
303 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
305 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
306 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
307 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
308 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
309 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
310 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
311 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
312 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
313 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
314 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
315 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
317 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
318 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
319 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
320 Florian Forster. #663
321 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
322 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
323 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
324 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
325 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
326 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
327 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
328 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
329 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
330 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
332 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
333 Thanks to Florian Forster.
334 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
335 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
336 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
337 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
338 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
339 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
340 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
342 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
344 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
345 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
346 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
347 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
348 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
349 Ritschard. #610, #804
350 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
352 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
353 to Florian Forster. #733
354 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
355 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
356 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
358 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
359 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
360 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
361 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
362 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
364 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
365 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
367 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
370 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
371 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
372 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
373 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
374 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
375 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
376 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
377 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
378 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
379 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
380 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
381 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
382 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
383 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
384 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
385 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
386 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
387 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
388 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
389 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
390 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
391 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
392 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
394 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
395 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
396 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
397 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
398 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
399 plugins for which a configuration is found.
400 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
401 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
402 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
403 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
404 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
406 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
407 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
408 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
409 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
410 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
411 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
412 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
413 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
414 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
415 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
416 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
417 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
418 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
419 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
421 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
422 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
423 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
424 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
425 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
426 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
427 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
429 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
430 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
431 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
432 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
433 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
434 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
435 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
436 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
437 metrics in the StatsD format.
438 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
439 Nick Stenning for his patch.
440 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
441 Javier Maestro for his patch.
442 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
443 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
446 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
447 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
448 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
449 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
451 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
452 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
453 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
455 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
457 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
458 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
459 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
460 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
461 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
462 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
463 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
464 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
465 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
466 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
467 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
468 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
469 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
471 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
473 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
474 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
475 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
476 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
477 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
478 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
479 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
480 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
481 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
482 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
483 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
485 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
486 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
487 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
488 Florian Forster. #663
489 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
490 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
491 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
492 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
493 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
494 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
496 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
497 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
498 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
499 Thanks to Florian Forster.
500 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
501 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
502 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
504 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
505 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
506 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
507 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
508 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
510 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
512 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
513 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
514 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
516 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
517 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
518 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
519 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
520 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
521 Ritschard. #610, #804
522 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
523 to Florian Forster. #733
524 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
525 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
526 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
528 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
529 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
530 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
532 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
535 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
536 * Documentation: Various fixes.
537 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
538 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
539 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
540 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
541 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
542 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
543 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
544 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
545 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
546 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
547 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
548 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
549 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
550 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
552 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
553 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
554 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
556 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
557 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
558 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
559 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
560 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
561 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
562 can now be set via the configuration file.
563 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
564 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
565 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
566 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
567 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
568 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
569 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
570 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
571 Greg Mason for his patch.
572 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
573 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
574 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
575 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
576 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
577 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
578 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
579 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
580 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
581 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
582 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
583 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
584 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
586 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
587 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
588 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
589 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
591 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
592 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
593 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
594 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
595 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
596 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
597 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
598 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
599 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
600 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
601 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
602 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
603 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
604 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
605 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
606 Tomas Doran for his patch.
607 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
608 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
609 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
610 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
611 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
612 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
613 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
614 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
615 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
616 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
617 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
618 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
619 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
620 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
621 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
624 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
625 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
626 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
627 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
628 more frequently than intended.
629 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
630 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
631 Ed Schouten for his patch.
632 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
633 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
634 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
635 Ed Schouten for his patch.
636 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
637 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
638 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
640 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
641 Ritschard for his patch.
642 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
643 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
644 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
645 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
646 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
647 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
649 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
650 Mettier for reporting this bug.
652 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
653 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
654 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
655 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
656 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
658 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
659 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
661 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
662 in the binary format has been added.
663 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
664 value lists into one.
665 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
666 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
667 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
668 Thomas Meson for the patch.
669 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
670 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
671 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
673 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
675 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
676 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
677 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
678 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
679 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
680 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
681 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
682 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
683 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
684 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
686 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
687 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
688 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
689 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
690 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
691 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
692 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
693 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
694 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
695 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
696 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
697 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
698 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
699 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
701 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
702 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
703 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
704 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
705 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
706 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
707 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
708 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
709 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
710 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
711 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
712 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
713 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
714 Tomas Doran for his patch.
715 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
716 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
717 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
718 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
719 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
720 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
721 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
722 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
723 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
724 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
725 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
726 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
727 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
730 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
731 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
732 Mettier for his patches.
733 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
734 more frequently than intended.
735 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
736 Ed Schouten for his patch.
737 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
738 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
739 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
740 Ed Schouten for his patch.
741 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
742 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
743 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
745 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
746 Mettier for reporting this bug.
748 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
749 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
750 unwanted permission bits.
751 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
752 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
753 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
754 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
755 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
756 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
757 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
758 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
759 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
761 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
762 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
763 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
764 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
765 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
766 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
767 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
768 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
769 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
770 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
771 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
772 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
774 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
775 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
776 reporting these problems.
777 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
778 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
779 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
780 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
781 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
783 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
784 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
785 "KIvosak" for the patch.
786 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
787 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
788 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
789 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
790 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
792 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
793 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
794 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
795 "biancalana" for the fix.
796 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
797 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
798 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
799 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
800 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
802 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
803 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
804 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
805 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
807 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
808 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
810 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
811 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
812 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
813 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
814 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
815 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
816 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
817 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
818 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
819 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
820 Ritschard for his patch.
821 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
822 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
824 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
825 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
827 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
829 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
830 Ioiart for his patch.
831 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
832 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
833 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
834 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
835 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
837 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
838 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
839 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
840 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
841 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
842 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
843 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
844 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
845 Aaron Brady for his patch.
846 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
847 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
848 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
849 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
850 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
851 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
852 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
853 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
855 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
856 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
857 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
858 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
860 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
861 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
862 unwanted permission bits.
863 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
864 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
865 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
866 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
867 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
868 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
869 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
870 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
871 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
873 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
874 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
875 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
876 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
877 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
878 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
879 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
880 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
881 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
882 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
883 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
884 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
886 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
887 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
888 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
889 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
890 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
892 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
893 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
894 "KIvosak" for the patch.
895 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
896 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
897 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
898 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
899 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
901 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
902 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
903 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
904 "biancalana" for the fix.
905 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
906 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
907 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
908 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
909 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
912 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
913 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
914 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
916 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
917 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
919 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
920 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
921 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
923 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
924 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
926 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
927 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
929 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
930 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
932 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
933 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
935 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
936 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
937 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
938 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
939 runtime has been fixed.
941 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
942 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
943 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
944 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
946 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
947 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
948 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
949 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
950 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
951 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
952 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
954 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
956 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
957 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
958 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
959 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
960 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
962 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
963 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
964 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
965 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
966 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
968 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
969 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
970 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
971 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
973 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
974 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
975 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
976 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
977 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
978 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
979 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
980 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
981 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
984 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
985 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
986 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
987 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
988 to Peter Green for his patch.
989 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
990 McCabe for the patch.
991 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
992 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
993 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
994 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
995 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
996 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
997 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
998 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
999 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1000 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1001 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1002 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1003 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1004 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1005 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1006 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1007 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1008 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1009 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1010 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1011 Flisher for the fix.
1013 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1014 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1015 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1016 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1017 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1018 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1019 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1020 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1022 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1023 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1024 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1025 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1026 added to the collectd client library.
1027 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1028 one data source has been changed to "value".
1029 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1030 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1031 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1032 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1033 maximum value is unspecified.
1034 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1035 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1036 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1037 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1038 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1039 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1040 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1041 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1042 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1043 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1045 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1046 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1047 "Connection" blocks.
1048 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1050 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1052 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1053 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1054 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1055 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1057 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1058 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1059 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1060 data sets used have been improved.
1061 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1063 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1064 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1065 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1066 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1067 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1068 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1069 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1070 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1071 this separate plugin.
1072 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1073 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1074 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1075 Fournier for their contributions.
1076 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1078 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1080 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1083 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1084 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1085 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1086 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1087 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1088 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1089 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1090 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1091 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1092 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1093 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1094 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1095 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1096 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1097 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1098 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1099 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1100 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1101 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1104 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1105 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1106 unwanted permission bits.
1107 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1108 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1109 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1110 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1111 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1112 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1113 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1114 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1115 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1116 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1117 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1118 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1119 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1120 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1121 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1122 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1124 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1125 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1126 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1128 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1129 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1130 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1131 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1132 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1133 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1134 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1135 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1137 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1138 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1139 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1140 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1141 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1142 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1143 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1146 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1147 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1148 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1149 plugin under Gentoo.
1150 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1151 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1153 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1154 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1155 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1156 Opter for his patch.
1157 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1158 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1160 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1161 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1163 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1164 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1166 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1167 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1169 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1170 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1171 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1172 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1173 runtime has been fixed.
1175 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1176 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1177 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1178 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1180 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1181 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1182 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1183 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1184 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1185 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1186 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1188 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1190 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1191 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1192 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1193 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1194 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1196 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1197 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1198 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1199 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1200 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1202 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1203 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1204 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1205 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1207 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1208 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1209 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1210 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1211 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1212 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1213 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1214 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1215 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1216 for fixing this bug!
1218 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1219 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1220 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1221 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1222 to Peter Green for his patch.
1223 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1224 McCabe for the patch.
1225 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1226 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1227 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1229 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1230 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1231 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1232 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1233 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1234 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1235 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1236 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1237 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1238 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1239 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1240 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1241 Flisher for the fix.
1243 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
1244 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1245 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1247 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1248 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1249 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1251 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
1252 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1253 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1254 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
1255 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1256 error handling case.
1257 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1258 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1261 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
1262 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1263 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1264 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1265 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1266 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1267 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1268 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1269 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1270 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
1271 configurable timeout value.
1272 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1273 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1274 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1275 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1276 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1277 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1278 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1280 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1281 to prevent spamming the logs.
1282 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1283 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1284 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1285 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1287 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1289 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1290 Trenkel for the patch.
1292 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1293 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1294 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1295 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
1296 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1298 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1299 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1300 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1302 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1303 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1304 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1305 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1306 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1307 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1308 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1309 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1310 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1311 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1313 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
1314 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
1315 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
1316 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
1317 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
1318 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
1319 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
1321 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
1323 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1324 lines from the match.
1325 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
1326 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
1328 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
1329 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
1330 Malek for the patch.
1331 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
1332 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
1334 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
1335 certain lines from the match.
1336 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
1337 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
1338 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
1339 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
1340 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
1341 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
1342 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
1343 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
1344 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
1345 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
1346 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
1347 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
1348 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
1349 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
1350 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
1351 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
1352 Sebastian Harl for his work.
1353 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
1354 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
1355 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
1356 Sven Trenkel for his work.
1357 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
1358 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
1359 MikroTik devices has been added.
1360 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
1361 Scraba for his patch.
1362 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1363 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
1364 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
1365 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
1366 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
1367 Ammous for his patch.
1369 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
1370 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1371 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1373 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1374 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1375 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1377 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1378 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1379 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1380 error handling case.
1381 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1382 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1385 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
1386 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1387 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1388 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1389 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1390 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1391 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1392 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1393 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1394 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1395 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1396 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1397 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1398 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1399 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1400 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1402 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1403 to prevent spamming the logs.
1404 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1405 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1406 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1407 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1409 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1410 Trenkel for the patch.
1412 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
1413 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1414 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1415 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
1416 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1418 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
1419 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1420 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1421 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1423 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1424 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1425 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1426 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1427 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1428 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
1429 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
1430 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1431 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1432 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1433 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1434 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1436 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
1437 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1438 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1439 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1440 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1441 figuring out a way to make this work.
1442 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1443 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1444 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1445 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1446 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1448 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1450 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1451 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1452 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
1453 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
1454 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1455 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1456 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1457 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1459 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1460 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1461 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1462 an unknown data source type.
1463 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1464 packets has been fixed.
1465 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
1467 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1468 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1469 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1470 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1471 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1472 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1474 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
1475 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1476 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
1477 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
1478 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
1479 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
1480 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1481 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1482 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1484 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
1485 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
1486 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
1489 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
1490 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
1491 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
1492 Weiskircher for the patch.
1493 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
1494 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1495 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
1496 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
1497 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
1498 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
1499 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
1500 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
1501 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
1502 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
1503 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
1504 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
1505 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
1507 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
1508 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1509 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
1510 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
1511 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
1512 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1513 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
1514 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1515 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
1516 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
1517 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
1518 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
1519 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
1520 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
1521 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
1522 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1523 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
1524 storage has been added.
1525 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
1526 value has been added.
1528 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
1529 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1530 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1531 an unknown data source type.
1533 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
1534 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1535 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1536 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1537 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1538 figuring out a way to make this work.
1539 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1540 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1541 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1542 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1544 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1546 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1547 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1548 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1549 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1550 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1551 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1553 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1554 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1555 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1556 packets has been fixed.
1557 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1558 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1559 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1560 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1561 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1562 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1564 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
1565 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1566 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1567 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1568 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1571 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
1572 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1573 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1574 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1575 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1576 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1578 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
1579 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
1580 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1581 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1582 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1583 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1585 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1586 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1587 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1588 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1590 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
1591 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1593 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1594 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1595 issues on some platforms.
1596 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1597 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1598 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1599 descriptor handling.
1601 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
1602 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
1603 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
1604 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
1605 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
1606 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
1608 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
1609 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
1610 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
1611 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1612 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
1613 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
1614 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1615 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
1616 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1617 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
1618 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
1620 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
1621 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
1622 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
1623 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
1624 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
1625 Aman Gupta for the patch.
1626 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
1627 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
1628 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
1629 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
1630 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
1632 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
1633 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
1635 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
1636 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
1637 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1638 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
1639 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
1640 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
1641 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
1642 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1643 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
1644 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
1645 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
1646 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
1647 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
1648 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
1650 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
1651 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1652 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1653 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1654 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1655 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1657 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1658 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1659 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1660 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1662 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1663 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1664 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1665 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1667 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
1668 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1670 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1671 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1672 issues on some platforms.
1673 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1674 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1675 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1676 descriptor handling.
1678 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
1679 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
1680 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1681 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1682 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1683 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1685 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
1686 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1687 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1688 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1689 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1690 Hess for reporting this bug.
1691 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1692 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1693 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1694 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1695 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
1696 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
1697 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
1698 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
1699 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1700 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1701 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
1702 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
1703 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
1704 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
1705 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1706 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1707 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1710 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
1711 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
1713 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1714 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1715 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1716 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1717 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1718 for reporting the bug.
1719 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
1721 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
1722 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
1723 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
1724 libtool 2.2 has been added.
1725 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1726 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1727 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1728 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1729 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1731 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
1732 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
1733 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
1734 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
1735 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
1737 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1738 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1740 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
1741 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
1742 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1743 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
1744 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1745 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
1746 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1747 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
1748 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
1749 Konetzko for the patch.
1750 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
1751 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
1752 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
1753 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
1754 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
1755 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
1756 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
1757 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
1758 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
1759 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
1760 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
1761 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
1762 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1763 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
1764 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
1765 Quiédeville for the patch.
1766 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
1768 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
1769 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
1770 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
1771 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
1772 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
1773 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
1774 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
1775 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
1777 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
1778 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
1779 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
1780 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
1781 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
1782 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1784 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
1785 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1786 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1787 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1789 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1790 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1791 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1792 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1793 Hess for reporting this bug.
1794 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1795 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1796 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1797 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1798 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1799 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1800 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1801 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1802 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1805 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
1806 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1807 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1808 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1809 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1810 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1811 for reporting the bug.
1813 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
1814 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1815 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1816 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1817 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1818 providing an OpenBSD system.
1819 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1820 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1821 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1822 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1823 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1825 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1827 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1828 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1829 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1830 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1831 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1833 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1834 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1835 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1837 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
1838 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
1839 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
1840 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
1842 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
1843 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
1844 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
1845 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
1846 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
1847 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
1848 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
1849 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
1850 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
1851 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
1852 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1853 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1854 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1856 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
1857 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
1858 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1859 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
1860 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
1861 for finding and fixing most of them.
1862 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1863 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1865 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
1866 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
1867 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
1868 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
1869 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1870 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
1871 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
1872 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
1873 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
1874 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
1875 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
1877 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
1878 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
1879 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
1880 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
1882 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
1883 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
1884 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
1885 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
1886 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
1887 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
1888 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
1889 Kuhnle for the patch.
1890 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
1891 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
1892 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
1893 MacEachern for the patch.
1894 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
1895 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
1896 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
1897 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
1898 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
1899 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
1900 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
1901 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
1902 select interfaces, too.
1903 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
1904 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
1905 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
1907 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
1908 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1909 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
1910 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
1911 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
1912 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1913 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
1914 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
1915 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
1916 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
1918 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
1919 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
1920 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
1921 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
1922 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
1923 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
1924 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
1925 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
1927 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
1928 been added. Portability fixes.
1929 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
1930 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
1931 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
1933 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
1936 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
1937 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1938 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1939 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1940 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1941 providing an OpenBSD system.
1942 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
1943 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1945 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
1946 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1947 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1948 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1949 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1950 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1952 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1953 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1954 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1955 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1957 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
1958 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
1960 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
1961 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1962 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
1964 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1965 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1966 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
1967 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
1969 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
1970 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1971 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1972 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1974 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1975 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1976 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
1977 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
1978 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
1979 provide these necessary functions.
1980 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1981 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
1983 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
1984 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1985 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1986 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
1988 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1989 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1990 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1991 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1992 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1993 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1995 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
1996 invalid configuration options.
1997 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1998 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1999 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2001 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2002 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2003 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2004 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2006 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2007 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2008 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2009 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2010 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2011 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2012 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2013 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2015 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2016 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2017 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2018 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2019 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2020 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2021 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2022 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2023 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2024 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2025 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2026 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2028 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2029 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2032 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2033 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2034 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2036 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2037 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2038 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2039 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2040 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2041 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2043 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2044 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2045 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2046 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2048 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2049 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2050 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2051 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2053 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2054 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2055 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2056 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2057 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2059 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2060 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2061 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2063 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2064 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2065 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2066 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2068 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2069 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2070 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2071 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2072 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2073 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2074 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2075 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2076 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2077 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2078 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2079 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2081 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2082 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2083 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2085 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2086 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2087 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2088 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2090 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2091 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2092 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2093 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2094 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2095 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2096 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2097 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2099 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2100 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2101 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2102 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2103 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2104 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2105 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2108 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2109 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2110 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2112 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2113 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2115 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2116 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2117 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2118 architecture collectd is being built on.
2119 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2121 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2123 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2124 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2125 values under Solaris.
2126 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2127 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2129 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2130 returned by some broken drivers.
2132 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2133 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2134 to kyrone for reporting this.
2135 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2137 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2139 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2140 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2141 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2142 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2144 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2145 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2146 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2147 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2148 flush its values to disk.
2149 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2150 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2151 for each data source.
2152 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2154 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2155 page of an Ascent server.
2156 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2157 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2158 specific disks has been added.
2159 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2160 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2161 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2163 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2164 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2165 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2166 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2167 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2168 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2169 configuration has been decreased.
2170 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2171 continuously reading from log files.
2172 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2173 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2174 and number of channels.
2175 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2176 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2177 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2179 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2180 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2182 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2184 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2185 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2186 again has been applied.
2187 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2189 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2190 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2192 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2193 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2194 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2197 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2198 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2199 they are in non-standard paths.
2200 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2201 if the libc expects it.
2202 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2203 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2205 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2206 using a buffer of static size.
2207 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2209 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2210 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2212 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2213 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2214 `Persist' threshold options.
2215 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2216 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2217 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2218 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2219 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2221 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2222 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2224 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2225 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2226 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2227 cross-platform compatibility.
2228 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2229 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2230 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2232 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
2233 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
2234 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
2235 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
2236 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
2237 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
2239 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
2240 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
2241 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
2242 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
2243 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
2244 wants to add custom type definitions.
2245 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
2246 entire directories and shell wildcards.
2247 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
2248 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
2249 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
2250 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
2251 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
2252 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
2253 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
2254 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
2255 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
2256 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
2257 domain name lookups in this plugin.
2258 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
2259 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
2260 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
2261 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
2262 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
2263 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
2264 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
2265 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
2266 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
2267 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
2268 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
2269 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
2270 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
2271 Technology group for this plugin.
2273 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
2274 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2275 they are in non-standard paths.
2276 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2277 if the libc expects it.
2278 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2279 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2281 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2282 using a buffer of static size.
2283 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2285 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2286 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2288 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2289 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2290 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2291 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2292 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2294 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2295 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
2296 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2298 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
2299 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
2300 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
2301 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
2302 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2303 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2304 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2305 cross-platform compatibility.
2306 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2307 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
2308 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2309 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2311 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
2312 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2313 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2314 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2315 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2317 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
2318 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2319 of the libsensors library.
2321 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
2322 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
2323 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
2325 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
2326 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2329 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
2330 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
2331 enabled on the host.
2332 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2334 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
2335 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
2336 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
2337 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
2338 definitions separate from the host definitions.
2339 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
2340 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
2341 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
2342 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
2343 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
2344 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
2345 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
2346 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
2347 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
2348 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
2349 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2350 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2351 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
2352 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
2353 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
2354 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
2355 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
2356 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
2357 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
2358 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
2359 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
2361 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
2362 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2363 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2364 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2365 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2367 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
2368 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
2370 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2371 of the libsensors library.
2373 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
2374 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
2375 it's in a non-standard location.
2376 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
2377 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
2378 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
2379 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
2380 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
2381 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2383 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
2384 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
2386 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2387 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2389 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
2390 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2391 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2392 noise quality as percentage.
2393 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2394 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
2395 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
2396 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
2397 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
2398 support for the `timeticks' type.
2400 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
2401 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
2402 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
2403 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
2405 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2406 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2407 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2409 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2410 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2411 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2412 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2414 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
2415 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
2416 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
2417 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
2419 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
2420 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
2421 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
2422 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
2423 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
2424 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
2425 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
2426 to not block data collection.
2427 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
2428 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
2429 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
2431 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
2432 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
2433 of music played with xmms.
2435 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
2436 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2437 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2438 noise quality as percentage.
2439 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2441 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
2442 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2443 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2444 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2446 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2447 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2448 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2449 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2451 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
2452 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
2454 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
2455 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
2456 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
2457 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
2458 (i. e. without quotes).
2459 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
2460 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
2461 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2463 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
2464 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
2465 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
2466 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
2468 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
2469 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
2470 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
2473 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
2474 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
2476 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
2477 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2478 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
2479 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2480 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
2481 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2482 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
2484 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
2485 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
2486 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
2487 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
2488 initialized correctly.
2489 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
2491 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
2492 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
2493 they're given in numerically form.
2495 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
2496 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
2497 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
2500 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
2501 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
2502 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
2503 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
2504 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
2505 thread-safe functions from now on.
2506 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
2507 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
2508 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
2510 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
2511 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
2512 write to increase IO-performance.
2513 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
2514 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
2515 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
2516 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
2517 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
2519 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
2520 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
2521 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
2523 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
2524 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
2525 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
2526 or STDOUT or STDERR.
2527 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
2528 system's syslog daemon.
2529 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
2530 entropy currently being available to the system.
2531 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
2532 back values provided by the forked processes.
2533 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
2534 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
2536 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
2537 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
2538 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
2539 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
2540 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
2541 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
2542 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
2543 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
2544 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
2546 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
2547 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2548 noise quality as percentage.
2550 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
2551 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2553 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
2554 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
2555 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
2556 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
2557 were accounted as `zombies'.
2559 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
2560 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
2563 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
2564 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
2565 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
2567 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
2568 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
2569 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
2570 segfault with some libcs.
2572 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
2573 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
2574 under Solaris again.
2575 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
2577 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
2578 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
2580 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
2581 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
2582 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
2583 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
2584 write init.d-scripts for it.
2585 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
2586 caused problems every now and then.
2587 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
2588 filesystem types or devices.
2589 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
2590 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
2592 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
2593 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
2594 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
2595 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
2596 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
2597 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
2598 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
2599 segment size and pagefaults.
2600 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
2601 queries multimeters.
2602 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
2603 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
2604 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
2606 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
2607 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
2608 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
2609 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
2611 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
2612 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
2613 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
2614 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
2617 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
2618 * The sample config file has been improved.
2619 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
2620 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
2621 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
2622 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
2624 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
2625 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
2626 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
2628 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
2629 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
2631 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
2632 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
2633 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
2634 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
2636 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
2637 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2638 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
2639 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
2640 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
2641 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
2642 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
2643 with a test environment :)
2644 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
2647 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
2648 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
2649 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
2651 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
2652 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
2653 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
2655 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
2656 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
2657 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
2659 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
2660 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
2662 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
2663 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2664 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2665 approximately 7.6 days.
2667 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
2668 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2669 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2670 approximately 7.6 days.
2672 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
2673 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
2675 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
2677 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
2679 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
2680 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
2681 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
2682 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
2683 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
2685 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
2686 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
2687 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
2688 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
2689 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
2690 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
2691 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
2692 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
2694 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
2695 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
2696 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
2697 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
2699 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
2700 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
2701 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
2703 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
2704 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
2705 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
2707 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
2708 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
2709 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
2712 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
2713 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
2714 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
2716 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
2717 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
2718 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
2719 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
2721 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
2722 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
2723 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
2725 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
2726 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
2728 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
2729 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
2731 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
2732 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
2734 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
2735 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
2737 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
2738 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
2739 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
2740 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
2741 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
2742 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
2743 address and/or port than localhost.
2744 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
2745 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
2746 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
2747 be set in the configfile.
2749 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
2750 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
2751 client mode. This released fixes this.
2753 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
2754 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
2755 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
2758 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
2759 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
2761 * A `df' plugin has been added.
2762 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
2763 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
2764 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
2766 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
2767 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
2768 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
2771 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
2772 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
2773 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
2775 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
2776 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
2777 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
2778 currently logged in users.
2779 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
2780 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
2781 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
2782 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
2784 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
2785 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
2786 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
2787 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
2788 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
2789 with the `-c' argument.
2790 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
2791 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
2792 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
2793 Barcellos for this patch.
2795 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
2796 * New modules have been added:
2797 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
2798 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
2799 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
2800 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
2802 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
2803 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
2805 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
2806 between polls up to one day.
2807 * The init.d files have been improved.
2808 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
2810 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
2811 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
2812 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
2814 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
2815 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
2816 multicast) has been added.
2817 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
2818 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
2819 to be linked against an external library.
2820 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
2821 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
2823 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
2824 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
2826 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
2827 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
2828 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
2829 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
2830 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
2831 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
2832 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
2833 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
2834 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
2837 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
2838 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
2840 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
2842 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
2843 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
2845 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
2846 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
2847 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
2848 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
2850 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
2851 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
2852 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
2854 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
2855 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
2856 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
2857 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
2858 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
2859 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
2860 statistics will not work.
2862 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
2863 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
2864 weird strings as disk-names..
2866 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
2867 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
2868 about the disks and partitions.
2870 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
2871 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
2872 and/or kernel versions.
2874 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
2875 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
2876 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
2878 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
2879 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
2880 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
2882 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
2883 * Collecting CPU statistics now
2885 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
2886 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
2888 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
2890 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
2891 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
2893 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
2894 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob