Merge pull request #649 from manuelluis/mlsr/flush-fix_time

[collectd.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 0b70eaa..66408a1 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -283,6 +283,11 @@ Features
     - 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
@@ -399,6 +404,9 @@ Features
       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.
 
@@ -560,10 +568,18 @@ Prerequisites
 
   * 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.
@@ -621,6 +637,10 @@ Prerequisites
     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
@@ -635,10 +655,6 @@ Prerequisites
     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/>
@@ -686,6 +702,10 @@ Prerequisites
     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 Kafka plugin for producing.
+    <https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka>
+
   * librouteros (optional)
     Used by the `routeros' plugin to connect to a device running `RouterOS'.
     <http://verplant.org/librouteros/>
@@ -704,6 +724,11 @@ Prerequisites
     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.