X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=56444fe142fd33cc207fbcfb04a17814f8d88894;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Fem%2Fvmware;hp=2ed8934fc92e43842dcab3ed7df8808bc5aa4bfb;hpb=853b3da5d4c6614d7db4093f57b1ca4f57b6c485;p=collectd.git diff --git a/README b/README index 2ed8934f..56444fe1 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ Features - entropy Amount of entropy available to the system. + - ethstat + Network interface card statistics. + - exec Values gathered by a custom program or script. See collectd-exec(5). @@ -130,7 +133,7 @@ Features technique built into IBM's POWER processors. - libvirt - CPU, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines. + CPU, memory, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines. - madwifi Queries very detailed usage statistics from wireless LAN adapters and @@ -140,6 +143,10 @@ Features Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information, using mbmon(1). + - md + Linux software-RAID device information (number of active, failed, spare + and missing disks). + - memcachec Query and parse data from a memcache daemon (memcached). @@ -192,6 +199,9 @@ Features Network UPS tools: UPS current, voltage, power, charge, utilisation, temperature, etc. See upsd(8). + - numa + Information about Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA). + - olsrd Queries routing information from the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon. @@ -212,6 +222,9 @@ Features write your own plugins in Perl and return arbitrary values using this API. See collectd-perl(5). + - pf + Query statistics from BSD's packet filter "pf". + - pinba Receive and dispatch timing values from Pinba, a profiling extension for PHP. @@ -271,6 +284,10 @@ Features Follows (tails) logfiles, parses them by lines and submits matched values. + - tail_csv + Follows (tails) files in CSV format, parses each line and submits + extracted values. + - tape Bytes and operations read and written on tape devices. Solaris only. @@ -299,6 +316,10 @@ Features - varnish Various statistics from Varnish, an HTTP accelerator. + - vmware + The VMware plugin collects information exposed to a guest virtual + machine running on a VMware hypervisor through the VMware Guest SDK. + - vmem Virtual memory statistics, e. g. the number of page-ins/-outs or the number of pagefaults. @@ -358,11 +379,23 @@ Features needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's done. + - write_graphite + Sends data to Carbon, the storage layer of Graphite. + - write_http Sends the values collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests. The transmitted data is either in a form understood by the Exec plugin or formatted in JSON. + - write_mongodb + Sends data to MongoDB, a NoSQL database. + + - write_redis + Sends the values to a Redis key-value database server. + + - write_riemann + Sends data to Riemann, a stream processing and monitoring system. + * Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following plugins keep up informed about what's going on: @@ -442,6 +475,14 @@ Features * Miscellaneous plugins: + - aggregation + Selects multiple value lists based on patterns or regular expressions + and creates new aggregated values lists from those. + + - threshold + Checks values against configured thresholds and creates notifications if + values are out of bounds. See collectd-threshold(5) for details. + - uuid Sets the hostname to an unique identifier. This is meant for setups where each client may migrate to another physical host, possibly going @@ -569,8 +610,10 @@ Prerequisites * libmodbus (optional) - Used by the `modbus' plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices. - + 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. + * libmysqlclient (optional) Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin. @@ -623,7 +666,8 @@ Prerequisites * libpython (optional) - Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, only 2.3 ≦ Python < 3 is supported. + Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, Python 2.3 and later and Python 3 + are supported. * librabbitmq (optional; also called “rabbitmq-c”)