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.
<http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html>
* libmodbus (optional)
- Used by the `modbus' plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices.
- <https://launchpad.net/libmodbus>
+ 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/>
* libmysqlclient (optional)
Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin.
Used to capture packets by the `dns' plugin.
<http://www.tcpdump.org/>
+ * libperfstat (optional)
+ Used by various plugins to gather statistics under AIX.
+
* libperl (optional)
Obviously used by the `perl' plugin. The library has to be compiled with
ithread support (introduced in Perl 5.6.0).
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/>