Merge branch 'collectd-4.2' into collectd-4.3

[collectd.git] / src / collectd.pod

diff --git a/src/collectd.pod b/src/collectd.pod
index e09fd84..b55362a 100644 (file)
--- a/src/collectd.pod
+++ b/src/collectd.pod
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ C<logfile plugin> and the C<syslog plugin>. With these plugins collectd can
 provide information about issues and significant situations to the user.
 Several loglevels let you suppress uninteresting messages.
 
+Starting with version C<4.3.0> collectd has support for B<monitoring>. This is
+done by checking thresholds defined by the user. If a value is out of range, a
+notification will be dispatched to "notification plugins". See
+L<collectd.conf(5)> for more detailed information about threshold checking.
+
 Please note that some plugins, that provide other means of communicating with
 the daemon, have manpages of their own to describe their functionality in more
 detail. In particular those are L<collectd-email(5)>, L<collectd-exec(5)>,
@@ -102,6 +107,7 @@ L<collectd-exec(5)>,
 L<collectd-perl(5)>,
 L<collectd-snmp(5)>,
 L<collectd-unixsock(5)>,
+L<types.db(5)>,
 L<http://collectd.org/>
 
 =head1 AUTHOR