Batterycharge, -current and voltage of ACPI and PMU based laptop
batteries.
- - curl
- Parse statistics from websites using regular expressions.
-
- bind
Name server and resolver statistics from the `statistics-channel'
interface of BIND 9.5, 9,6 and later.
- conntrack
Number of nf_conntrack entries.
- - couchdb
- Parse statistics from CouchDB JSON documents.
-
- cpu
CPU utilization: Time spent in the system, user, nice, idle, and related
states.
- cpufreq
CPU frequency (For laptops with speed step or a similar technology)
+ - curl
+ Parse statistics from websites using regular expressions.
+
+ - curl_json
+ Retrieves JSON data via cURL and parses it according to user
+ configuration.
+
- dbi
Executes SQL statements on various databases and interprets the returned
data.
- libvirt
CPU, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
+ - madwifi
+ Queries very detailed usage statistics from wireless LAN adapters and
+ interfaces that use the Atheros chipset and the MadWifi driver.
+
- mbmon
Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information,
using mbmon(1).
Network UPS tools: UPS current, voltage, power, charge, utilisation,
temperature, etc. See upsd(8).
+ - olsrd
+ Queries routing information from the “Optimized Link State Routing”
+ daemon.
+
- onewire (EXPERIMENTAL!)
Read onewire sensors using the owcapu library of the owfs project.
Please read in collectd.conf(5) why this plugin is experimental.
Linux ACPI thermal zone information.
- tokyotyrant
- Record in and file size of a Tokyo Cabinet database file.
+ Reads the number of records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant
+ server.
- uptime
System uptime statistics.
- wireless
Link quality of wireless cards. Linux only.
- - write_http
- Send data to a web-server using POST requests.
-
- xmms
Bitrate and frequency of music played with XMMS.
- * Output can be written or send to various destinations by the following
+ - zfs_arc
+ Statistics for ZFS' “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC).
+
+ * Output can be written or sent to various destinations by the following
plugins:
- csv
needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's
done.
+ - write_http
+ Sends the values collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST
+ requests. The transmitted data is either in a form understood by the
+ Exec plugin or formatted in JSON.
+
* Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
network plugins, makes sure your resources are used efficiently. Also,
since collectd is programmed multithreaded it benefits from hyperthreading
and multicore processors and makes sure that the daemon isn't idle if only
- one plugins waits for an IO-operation to complete.
+ one plugin waits for an IO-operation to complete.
* Once set up, hardly any maintenance is necessary. Setup is kept as easy
as possible and the default values should be okay for most users.
* libganglia (optional)
Used by the `gmond' plugin to process data received from Ganglia.
+ <http://ganglia.info/>
* libgcrypt (optional)
Used by the `network' plugin for encryption and authentication.
+ <http://www.gnupg.org/>
* libhal (optional)
If present, the uuid plugin will check for UUID from HAL.
<http://hal.freedesktop.org/>
- * libiptc (optional, if not found a version shipped with this distribution
- can be used if the Linux kernel headers are available)
+ * libiptc (optional)
For querying iptables counters.
<http://netfilter.org/>
+ If not found on the system, a version shipped with this distribution can
+ be used. It requires some Linux headers in /usr/include/linux. You can
+ force the build system to use the shipped version by specifying
+ --with-libiptc=shipped
+ when running the configure script.
+
* libjvm (optional)
Library that encapsulates the `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM). This library is
used by the Java plugin to execute Java bytecode. See “Configuring with
libjvm” below.
+ <http://openjdk.java.net/> (and others)
* libmemcached (optional)
Used by the `memcachec' plugin to connect to a memcache daemon.
+ <http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html>
* libmysqlclient (optional)
Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin.
For the `notify_desktop' plugin.
<http://www.galago-project.org/>
- * liboping (optional, if not found a version shipped with this distribution
- can be used)
+ * liboping (optional)
Used by the `ping' plugin to send and receive ICMP packets.
<http://verplant.org/liboping/>
and/or Solaris.
<http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/>
+ * libtokyotyrant (optional)
+ Used by the tokyotyrant plugin.
+ <http://1978th.net/tokyotyrant/>
+
* libupsclient/nut (optional)
For the `nut' plugin which queries nut's `upsd'.
<http://networkupstools.org/>
<http://www.xmms.org/>
* libyajl (optional)
- Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `couchdb' plugin.
- <http://www.lloydforge.org/projects/yajl/>
+ Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `curl_json' plugin.
+ <http://github.com/lloyd/yajl>
Configuring / Compiling / Installing
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