Allow Interval per File block for tail plugin

[collectd.git] / src / collectd.conf.pod

diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod
index 691a749..7a6eefe 100644 (file)
--- a/src/collectd.conf.pod
+++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod
@@ -5472,6 +5472,7 @@ user using (extended) regular expressions, as described in L<regex(7)>.
   <Plugin "tail">
     <File "/var/log/exim4/mainlog">
       Instance "exim"
+      Interval 60
       <Match>
         Regex "S=([1-9][0-9]*)"
         DSType "CounterAdd"
@@ -5498,6 +5499,9 @@ This plugin instance is for all B<Match> blocks that B<follow> it, until the
 next B<Instance> option. This way you can extract several plugin instances from
 one logfile, handy when parsing syslog and the like.
 
+The B<Interval> option allows you to define the length of time between reads. If
+this is not set, the default Interval will be used.
+
 Each B<Match> block has the following options to describe how the match should
 be performed:
 
@@ -6288,6 +6292,7 @@ Synopsis:
      TTLFactor 2.0
    </Node>
    Tag "foobar"
+   Attribute "foo" "bar"
  </Plugin>
 
 The following options are understood by the I<write_riemann plugin>:
@@ -6348,6 +6353,11 @@ default value.
 Add the given string as an additional tag to the metric being sent to
 I<Riemann>.
 
+=item B<Attribute> I<String> I<String>
+
+Consider the two given strings to be the key and value of an additional
+attribute for each metric being sent out to I<Riemann>.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 THRESHOLD CONFIGURATION