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@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ Features
Collect DPDK interface statistics.
See docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md for detailed build instructions.
+ This plugin should be compiled with compiler defenses enabled, for
+ example -fstack-protector.
+
- drbd
Collect individual drbd resource statistics.
@@ -140,6 +143,14 @@ Features
hugepages can be found here:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt.
+ This plugin should be compiled with compiler defenses enabled, for
+ example -fstack-protector.
+
+ - intel_pmu
+ The intel_pmu plugin reads performance counters provided by the Linux
+ kernel perf interface. The plugin uses jevents library to resolve named
+ events to perf events and access perf interface.
+
- intel_rdt
The intel_rdt plugin collects information provided by monitoring features
of Intel Resource Director Technology (Intel(R) RDT) like Cache Monitoring
@@ -240,7 +251,7 @@ Features
- netapp
Plugin to query performance values from a NetApp storage system using the
- âManage ONTAPâ SDK provided by NetApp.
+ âManage ONTAPâ SDK provided by NetApp.
- netlink
Very detailed Linux network interface and routing statistics. You can get
@@ -253,8 +264,7 @@ Features
plugin of choice for that.
- nfs
- NFS Procedures: Which NFS command were called how often. Only NFSv2 and
- NFSv3 right now.
+ NFS Procedures: Which NFS command were called how often.
- nginx
Collects statistics from `nginx' (speak: engine X), a HTTP and mail
@@ -786,6 +796,13 @@ Prerequisites
For querying iptables counters.
+ * libjevents (optional)
+ The jevents library is used by the `intel_pmu' plugin to access the Linux
+ kernel perf interface.
+ Note: the library should be build with -fPIC flag to be linked with
+ intel_pmu shared object correctly.
+
+
* libjvm (optional)
Library that encapsulates the `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM). This library is
used by the `java' plugin to execute Java bytecode.
@@ -970,9 +987,8 @@ Configuring / Compiling / Installing
------------------------------------
To configure, build and install collectd with the default settings, run
- `./configure && make && make install'. For detailed, generic instructions
- see INSTALL. For a complete list of configure options and their description,
- run `./configure --help'.
+ `./configure && make && make install'. For a complete list of configure
+ options and their description, run `./configure --help'.
By default, the configure script will check for all build dependencies and
disable all plugins whose requirements cannot be fulfilled (any other plugin