Sensors in Macs running Mac OS X / Darwin: Temperature, fanspeed and
voltage sensors.
+ - aquaero
+ Various sensors in the Aquaero 5 watercooling board made by Aquacomputer.
+
- ascent
Statistics about Ascent, a free server for the game `World of Warcraft'.
+ - barometer
+ Using digital barometer sensor MPL115A2 or MPL3115 from Freescale
+ provides absolute barometric pressure, air pressure reduced to sea level
+ and temperature.
+
- battery
Batterycharge, -current and voltage of ACPI and PMU based laptop
batteries.
Name server and resolver statistics from the `statistics-channel'
interface of BIND 9.5, 9,6 and later.
+ - cgroups
+ CPU accounting information for process groups under Linux.
+
- conntrack
Number of nf_conntrack entries.
DNS traffic: Query types, response codes, opcodes and traffic/octets
transfered.
+ - drbd
+ Collect individual drbd resource statistics.
+
- email
Email statistics: Count, traffic, spam scores and checks.
See collectd-email(5).
technique built into IBM's POWER processors.
- libvirt
- CPU, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
+ CPU, memory, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
+
+ - lvm
+ Size of “Logical Volumes” (LV) and “Volume Groups” (VG) of Linux'
+ “Logical Volume Manager” (LVM).
- madwifi
Queries very detailed usage statistics from wireless LAN adapters and
Memory utilization: Memory occupied by running processes, page cache,
buffer cache and free.
+ - mic
+ Collects CPU usage, memory usage, temperatures and power consumption from
+ Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) CPUs.
+
- modbus
Reads values from Modbus/TCP enabled devices. Supports reading values
from multiple "slaves" so gateway devices can be used.
- serial
RX and TX of serial interfaces. Linux only; needs root privileges.
+ - sigrok
+ Uses libsigrok as a backend, allowing any sigrok-supported device
+ to have its measurements fed to collectd. This includes multimeters,
+ sound level meters, thermometers, and much more.
+
- snmp
Read values from SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) enabled
network devices such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack monitoring
servers, etc. See collectd-snmp(5).
+ - statsd
+ Acts as a StatsD server, reading values sent over the network from StatsD
+ clients and calculating rates and other aggregates out of these values.
+
- swap
Pages swapped out onto harddisk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS..
Follows (tails) logfiles, parses them by lines and submits matched
values.
+ - tail_csv
+ Follows (tails) files in CSV format, parses each line and submits
+ extracted values.
+
- tape
Bytes and operations read and written on tape devices. Solaris only.
done.
- write_graphite
- Sends data to Carbon, the storage layer of Graphite.
+ Sends data to Carbon, the storage layer of Graphite using TCP or UDP. It
+ can be configured to avoid logging send errors (especially useful when
+ using UDP).
- 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.
+ - write_kafka
+ Sends data to Apache Kafka, a distributed queue.
+
+ - write_mongodb
+ Sends data to MongoDB, a NoSQL database.
+
- write_redis
Sends the values to a Redis key-value database server.
+ - write_riemann
+ Sends data to Riemann, a stream processing and monitoring system.
+
* Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
- logfile
- Writes logmessages to a file or STDOUT/STDERR.
+ Writes log messages to a file or STDOUT/STDERR.
- perl
Log messages are propagated to plugins written in Perl as well.
- syslog
Logs to the standard UNIX logging mechanism, syslog.
+ - log_logstash
+ Writes log messages formatted as logstash JSON events.
+
* Notifications can be handled by the following plugins:
- notify_desktop
* A POSIX-threads (pthread) implementation.
Since gathering some statistics is slow (network connections, slow devices,
- etc) the collectd is parallelized. The POSIX threads interface is being
+ etc) collectd is parallelized. The POSIX threads interface is being
used and should be found in various implementations for hopefully all
platforms.
+ * aerotools-ng (optional)
+ Used by the `aquaero' plugin. Currently, the `libaquaero5' library, which
+ is used by the `aerotools-ng' toolkit, is not compiled as a shared object
+ nor does it feature an installation routine. Therefore, you need to point
+ collectd's configure script at the source directory of the `aerotools-ng'
+ project.
+ <https://github.com/lynix/aerotools-ng>
+
* CoreFoundation.framework and IOKit.framework (optional)
For compiling on Darwin in general and the `apple_sensors' plugin in
particular.
Used by the `oracle' plugin.
* libcredis (optional)
- Used by the redis plugin. Please note that you require a 0.2.2 version
+ Used by the `redis' plugin. Please note that you require a 0.2.2 version
or higher. <http://code.google.com/p/credis/>
* libcurl (optional)
- If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `curl', `nginx', or `write_http'
- plugin.
+ If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `bind', `curl', `curl_json',
+ `curl_xml', `nginx', or `write_http' plugin.
<http://curl.haxx.se/>
* libdbi (optional)
<http://www.gnupg.org/>
* libhal (optional)
- If present, the uuid plugin will check for UUID from HAL.
+ If present, the `uuid' plugin will check for UUID from HAL.
<http://hal.freedesktop.org/>
+ * libi2c-dev (optional)
+ Used for the plugin `barometer', provides just the i2c-dev.h header file
+ for user space i2c development.
+
* 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
+ used by the `java' plugin to execute Java bytecode. See “Configuring with
libjvm” below.
<http://openjdk.java.net/> (and others)
+ * liblvm2 (optional)
+ Used by the `lvm' plugin.
+ <ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/>
+
* libmemcached (optional)
Used by the `memcachec' plugin to connect to a memcache daemon.
<http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html>
+ * libmnl (optional)
+ Used by the `netlink' plugin.
+ <http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libmnl/>
+
* libmodbus (optional)
- Used by the “modbus” plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices. The
- “modbus” plugin works with version 2.0.3 of the library – due to frequent
+ Used by the `modbus' plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices. The
+ `modbus' plugin works with version 2.0.3 of the library – due to frequent
API changes other versions may or may not compile cleanly.
<http://www.libmodbus.org/>
<http://dev.mysql.com/>
* libnetapp (optional)
- Required for the “netapp” plugin.
+ Required for the `netapp' plugin.
This library is part of the “Manage ONTAP SDK” published by NetApp.
- * libnetlink (optional)
- Used, obviously, for the `netlink' plugin.
- <http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Iproute2>
-
* libnetsnmp (optional)
For the `snmp' plugin.
<http://www.net-snmp.org/>
For the `notify_desktop' plugin.
<http://www.galago-project.org/>
+ * libopenipmi (optional)
+ Used by the `ipmi' plugin to prove IPMI devices.
+ <http://openipmi.sourceforge.net/>
+
* liboping (optional)
Used by the `ping' plugin to send and receive ICMP packets.
- <http://verplant.org/liboping/>
+ <http://octo.it/liboping/>
* libowcapi (optional)
Used by the `onewire' plugin to read values from onewire sensors (or the
* libprotobuf-c, protoc-c (optional)
Used by the `pinba' plugin to generate a parser for the network packets
- sent by the Pinba PHP extension.
+ sent by the Pinba PHP extension, and by the `write_riemann' plugin to
+ generate events to be sent to a Riemann server.
<http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/>
* libpython (optional)
<http://www.python.org/>
* librabbitmq (optional; also called “rabbitmq-c”)
- Used by the AMQP plugin for AMQP connections, for example to RabbitMQ.
+ Used by the `amqp' plugin for AMQP connections, for example to RabbitMQ.
<http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-c/>
+ * librdkafka (optional; also called “rdkafka”)
+ Used by the `write_kafka' plugin for producing messages and sending them
+ to a Kafka broker.
+ <https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka>
+
* librouteros (optional)
Used by the `routeros' plugin to connect to a device running `RouterOS'.
- <http://verplant.org/librouteros/>
+ <http://octo.it/librouteros/>
* librrd (optional)
Used by the `rrdtool' and `rrdcached' plugins. The latter requires RRDtool
To read from `lm_sensors', see the `sensors' plugin.
<http://www.lm-sensors.org/>
+ * libsigrok (optional)
+ Used by the `sigrok' plugin. In addition, libsigrok depends on glib,
+ libzip, and optionally (depending on which drivers are enabled) on
+ libusb, libftdi and libudev.
+
* libstatgrab (optional)
Used by various plugins to collect statistics on systems other than Linux
and/or Solaris.
<http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/>
* libtokyotyrant (optional)
- Used by the tokyotyrant plugin.
+ Used by the `tokyotyrant' plugin.
<http://1978th.net/tokyotyrant/>
* libupsclient/nut (optional)
<http://libvirt.org/>
* libxml2 (optional)
- Parse XML data. This is needed for the `ascent' and `libvirt' plugins.
+ Parse XML data. This is needed for the `ascent', `bind', `curl_xml' and
+ `libvirt' plugins.
<http://xmlsoft.org/>
* libxmms (optional)
<http://www.xmms.org/>
* libyajl (optional)
- Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `curl_json' plugin.
+ Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `curl_json' and `log_logstash'
+ plugins.
<http://github.com/lloyd/yajl>
* libvarnish (optional)
- Fetches statistics from a Varnish instance. This is needed for the Varnish plugin
+ Fetches statistics from a Varnish instance. This is needed for the
+ `varnish' plugin.
<http://varnish-cache.org>
Configuring / Compiling / Installing
For questions, bug reports, development information and basically all other
concerns please send an email to collectd's mailing list at
- <collectd at verplant.org>.
+ <list at collectd.org>.
For live discussion and more personal contact visit us in IRC, we're in
channel #collectd on freenode.
Author
------
- Florian octo Forster <octo at verplant.org>,
+ Florian octo Forster <octo at collectd.org>,
Sebastian tokkee Harl <sh at tokkee.org>,
and many contributors (see `AUTHORS').
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