write your own plugins in Perl and return arbitrary values using this
API. See collectd-perl(5).
+ - pinba
+ Receive and dispatch timing values from Pinba, a profiling extension for
+ PHP.
+
- ping
Network latency: Time to reach the default gateway or another given
host.
- users
Users currently logged in.
+ - varnish
+ Various statistics from Varnish, an HTTP accelerator.
+
- vmem
Virtual memory statistics, e. g. the number of page-ins/-outs or the
number of pagefaults.
* Output can be written or sent to various destinations by the following
plugins:
+ - amqp
+ Sends JSON-encoded data to an Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
+ server, such as RabbitMQ.
+
- csv
Write to comma separated values (CSV) files. This needs lots of
diskspace but is extremely portable and can be analysed with almost
The PostgreSQL C client library used by the `postgresql' plugin.
<http://www.postgresql.org/>
+ * libprotobuf-c, protoc-c (optional)
+ Used by the `pinba' plugin to generate a parser for the network packets
+ sent by the Pinba PHP extension.
+ <http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/>
+
* libpython (optional)
Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, only 2.3 ≦ Python < 3 is supported.
<http://www.python.org/>
+ * librabbitmq (optional; also called “rabbitmq-c”)
+ Used by the AMQP plugin for AMQP connections, for example to RabbitMQ.
+ <http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-c/>
+
* librouteros (optional)
Used by the `routeros' plugin to connect to a device running `RouterOS'.
<http://verplant.org/librouteros/>
Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `curl_json' plugin.
<http://github.com/lloyd/yajl>
+ * libvarnish (optional)
+ Fetches statistics from a Varnish instance. This is needed for the Varnish plugin
+ <http://varnish-cache.org>
+
Configuring / Compiling / Installing
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