X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=60de1edd47edae53f03e52e92fbcd7154793d636;hb=79d834024d69d3b33e0fc4717b6560385b54cdd1;hp=bcedb62e0a387c63370a07f8a4a302c90dceb670;hpb=8f4a48a804f9d95010cf5ad469e4729cebc3e0e9;p=collectd.git diff --git a/README b/README index bcedb62e..60de1edd 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ Features - ascent Statistics about Ascent, a free server for the game `World of Warcraft'. + - barometer + Using digital barometer sensor MPL115A2 or MPL3115 from Freescale + provides absolute barometric pressure, air pressure reduced to sea level + and temperature. + - battery Batterycharge, -current and voltage of ACPI and PMU based laptop batteries. @@ -82,6 +87,9 @@ Features DNS traffic: Query types, response codes, opcodes and traffic/octets transfered. + - drbd + Collect individual drbd resource statistics. + - email Email statistics: Count, traffic, spam scores and checks. See collectd-email(5). @@ -293,6 +301,10 @@ Features network devices such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack monitoring servers, etc. See collectd-snmp(5). + - statsd + Acts as a StatsD server, reading values sent over the network from StatsD + clients and calculating rates and other aggregates out of these values. + - swap Pages swapped out onto harddisk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS.. @@ -420,7 +432,7 @@ Features plugins keep up informed about what's going on: - logfile - Writes logmessages to a file or STDOUT/STDERR. + Writes log messages to a file or STDOUT/STDERR. - perl Log messages are propagated to plugins written in Perl as well. @@ -433,6 +445,9 @@ Features - syslog Logs to the standard UNIX logging mechanism, syslog. + - log_logstash + Writes log messages formatted as logstash JSON events. + * Notifications can be handled by the following plugins: - notify_desktop @@ -589,12 +604,12 @@ Prerequisites Used by the `oracle' plugin. * libcredis (optional) - Used by the redis plugin. Please note that you require a 0.2.2 version + Used by the `redis' plugin. Please note that you require a 0.2.2 version or higher. * libcurl (optional) - If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `curl', `nginx', or `write_http' - plugin. + If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `bind', `curl', `curl_json', + `curl_xml', `nginx', or `write_http' plugin. * libdbi (optional) @@ -614,25 +629,27 @@ Prerequisites * libhal (optional) - If present, the uuid plugin will check for UUID from HAL. + If present, the `uuid' plugin will check for UUID from HAL. + * libi2c-dev (optional) + Used for the plugin `barometer', provides just the i2c-dev.h header file + for user space i2c development. + * libiptc (optional) For querying iptables counters. - If not found on the system, a version shipped with this distribution can - be used. It requires some Linux headers in /usr/include/linux. You can - force the build system to use the shipped version by specifying - --with-libiptc=shipped - when running the configure script. - * libjvm (optional) Library that encapsulates the `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM). This library is - used by the Java plugin to execute Java bytecode. See “Configuring with + used by the `java' plugin to execute Java bytecode. See “Configuring with libjvm” below. (and others) + * liblvm2 (optional) + Used by the `lvm' plugin. + + * libmemcached (optional) Used by the `memcachec' plugin to connect to a memcache daemon. @@ -642,8 +659,8 @@ Prerequisites * libmodbus (optional) - 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 + 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. @@ -652,7 +669,7 @@ Prerequisites * libnetapp (optional) - Required for the “netapp” plugin. + Required for the `netapp' plugin. This library is part of the “Manage ONTAP SDK” published by NetApp. * libnetsnmp (optional) @@ -663,6 +680,10 @@ Prerequisites For the `notify_desktop' plugin. + * libopenipmi (optional) + Used by the `ipmi' plugin to prove IPMI devices. + + * liboping (optional) Used by the `ping' plugin to send and receive ICMP packets. @@ -690,7 +711,8 @@ Prerequisites * libprotobuf-c, protoc-c (optional) Used by the `pinba' plugin to generate a parser for the network packets - sent by the Pinba PHP extension. + sent by the Pinba PHP extension, and by the `write_riemann' plugin to + generate events to be sent to a Riemann server. * libpython (optional) @@ -699,11 +721,12 @@ Prerequisites * librabbitmq (optional; also called “rabbitmq-c”) - Used by the AMQP plugin for AMQP connections, for example to RabbitMQ. + Used by the `amqp' plugin for AMQP connections, for example to RabbitMQ. * librdkafka (optional; also called “rdkafka”) - Used by the Kafka plugin for producing. + Used by the `write_kafka' plugin for producing messages and sending them + to a Kafka broker. * librouteros (optional) @@ -725,7 +748,7 @@ Prerequisites * libsigrok (optional) - Used by the sigrok plugin. In addition, libsigrok depends on glib, + Used by the `sigrok' plugin. In addition, libsigrok depends on glib, libzip, and optionally (depending on which drivers are enabled) on libusb, libftdi and libudev. @@ -735,7 +758,7 @@ Prerequisites * libtokyotyrant (optional) - Used by the tokyotyrant plugin. + Used by the `tokyotyrant' plugin. * libupsclient/nut (optional) @@ -747,18 +770,21 @@ Prerequisites * libxml2 (optional) - Parse XML data. This is needed for the `ascent' and `libvirt' plugins. + Parse XML data. This is needed for the `ascent', `bind', `curl_xml' and + `libvirt' plugins. * libxmms (optional) * libyajl (optional) - Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `curl_json' plugin. + Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `curl_json' and `log_logstash' + plugins. * libvarnish (optional) - Fetches statistics from a Varnish instance. This is needed for the Varnish plugin + Fetches statistics from a Varnish instance. This is needed for the + `varnish' plugin. 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