1 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
2 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
3 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
4 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
6 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
7 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
8 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
9 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
10 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
11 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
12 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
14 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
16 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
17 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
18 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
19 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
20 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
22 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
23 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
24 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
25 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
26 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
28 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
29 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
30 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
31 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
33 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
34 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
35 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
36 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
37 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
38 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
39 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
40 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
41 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
44 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
45 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
46 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
47 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
48 to Peter Green for his patch.
49 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
51 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
52 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
53 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
54 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
55 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
56 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
57 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
58 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
59 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
60 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
61 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
62 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
63 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
64 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
65 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
66 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
67 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
68 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
69 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
70 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
73 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
74 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
75 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
76 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
77 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
78 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
79 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
80 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
82 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
83 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
84 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
85 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
86 added to the collectd client library.
87 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
88 one data source has been changed to "value".
89 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
90 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
91 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
92 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
93 maximum value is unspecified.
94 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
95 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
96 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
97 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
98 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
99 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
100 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
101 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
102 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
103 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
105 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
106 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
108 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
110 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
112 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
113 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
114 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
115 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
117 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
118 license has been changes to LGPLv2.1.
119 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
120 data sets used have been improved.
121 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
123 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
124 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
125 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
126 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
127 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
128 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
129 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
130 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
131 this separate plugin.
132 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
133 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
134 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
135 Fournier for their contributions.
136 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
138 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
140 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
143 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
144 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
145 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
146 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
148 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
149 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
150 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
151 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
152 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
153 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
154 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
156 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
158 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
159 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
160 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
161 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
162 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
164 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
165 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
166 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
167 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
168 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
170 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
171 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
172 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
173 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
175 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
176 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
177 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
178 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
179 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
180 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
181 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
182 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
183 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
186 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
187 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
188 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
189 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
190 to Peter Green for his patch.
191 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
192 McCabe for the patch.
193 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
194 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
195 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
197 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
198 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
199 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
200 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
201 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
202 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
203 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
204 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
205 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
206 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
207 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
208 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
211 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
212 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
213 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
215 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
216 percentage calculation has been fixed.
217 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
219 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
220 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
221 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
222 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
223 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
225 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
226 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
229 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
230 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
231 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
232 the rest of the configuration if possible.
233 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
234 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
235 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
236 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
237 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
238 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
239 configurable timeout value.
240 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
241 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
242 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
243 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
244 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
245 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
246 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
248 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
249 to prevent spamming the logs.
250 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
251 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
252 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
253 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
255 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
257 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
258 Trenkel for the patch.
260 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
261 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
262 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
263 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
264 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
266 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
267 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
268 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
270 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
271 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
272 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
273 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
274 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
275 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
276 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
277 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
278 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
279 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
281 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
282 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
283 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
284 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
285 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
286 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
287 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
289 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
291 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
292 lines from the match.
293 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
294 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
296 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
297 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
299 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
300 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
302 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
303 certain lines from the match.
304 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
305 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
306 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
307 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
308 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
309 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
310 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
311 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
312 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
313 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
314 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
315 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
316 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
317 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
318 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
319 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
320 Sebastian Harl for his work.
321 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
322 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
323 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
324 Sven Trenkel for his work.
325 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
326 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
327 MikroTik devices has been added.
328 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
329 Scraba for his patch.
330 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
331 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
332 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
333 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
334 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
335 Ammous for his patch.
337 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
338 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
339 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
341 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
342 percentage calculation has been fixed.
343 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
345 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
346 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
347 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
349 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
350 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
353 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
354 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
355 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
356 the rest of the configuration if possible.
357 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
358 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
359 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
360 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
361 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
362 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
363 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
364 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
365 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
366 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
367 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
368 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
370 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
371 to prevent spamming the logs.
372 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
373 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
374 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
375 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
377 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
378 Trenkel for the patch.
380 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
381 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
382 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
383 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
384 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
386 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
387 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
388 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
389 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
391 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
392 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
393 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
394 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
395 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
396 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
397 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
398 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
399 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
400 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
401 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
402 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
404 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
405 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
406 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
407 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
408 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
409 figuring out a way to make this work.
410 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
411 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
412 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
413 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
414 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
416 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
418 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
419 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
420 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
421 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
422 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
423 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
424 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
425 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
427 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
428 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
429 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
430 an unknown data source type.
431 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
432 packets has been fixed.
433 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
435 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
436 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
437 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
438 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
439 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
440 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
442 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
443 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
444 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
445 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
446 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
447 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
448 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
449 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
450 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
452 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
453 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
454 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
457 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
458 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
459 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
460 Weiskircher for the patch.
461 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
462 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
463 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
464 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
465 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
466 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
467 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
468 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
469 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
470 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
471 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
472 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
473 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
475 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
476 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
477 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
478 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
479 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
480 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
481 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
482 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
483 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
484 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
485 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
486 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
487 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
488 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
489 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
490 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
491 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
492 storage has been added.
493 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
494 value has been added.
496 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
497 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
498 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
499 an unknown data source type.
501 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
502 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
503 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
504 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
505 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
506 figuring out a way to make this work.
507 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
508 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
509 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
510 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
512 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
514 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
515 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
516 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
517 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
518 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
519 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
521 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
522 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
523 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
524 packets has been fixed.
525 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
526 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
527 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
528 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
529 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
530 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
532 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
533 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
534 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
535 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
536 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
539 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
540 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
541 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
542 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
543 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
544 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
546 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
547 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
548 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
549 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
550 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
551 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
553 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
554 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
555 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
556 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
558 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
559 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
561 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
562 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
563 issues on some platforms.
564 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
565 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
566 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
569 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
570 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
571 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
572 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
573 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
574 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
576 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
577 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
578 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
579 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
580 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
581 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
582 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
583 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
584 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
585 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
586 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
588 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
589 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
590 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
591 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
592 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
593 Aman Gupta for the patch.
594 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
595 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
596 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
597 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
598 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
600 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
601 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
603 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
604 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
605 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
606 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
607 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
608 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
609 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
610 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
611 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
612 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
613 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
614 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
615 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
616 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
618 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
619 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
620 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
621 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
622 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
623 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
625 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
626 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
627 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
628 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
630 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
631 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
632 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
633 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
635 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
636 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
638 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
639 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
640 issues on some platforms.
641 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
642 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
643 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
646 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
647 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
648 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
649 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
650 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
651 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
653 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
654 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
655 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
656 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
657 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
658 Hess for reporting this bug.
659 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
660 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
661 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
662 is linked with the shipped library, too.
663 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
664 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
665 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
666 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
667 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
668 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
669 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
670 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
671 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
672 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
673 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
674 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
675 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
678 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
679 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
681 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
682 Díaz for fixing this bug.
683 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
684 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
685 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
686 for reporting the bug.
687 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
689 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
690 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
691 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
692 libtool 2.2 has been added.
693 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
694 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
695 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
696 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
697 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
699 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
700 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
701 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
702 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
703 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
705 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
706 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
708 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
709 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
710 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
711 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
712 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
713 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
714 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
715 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
716 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
717 Konetzko for the patch.
718 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
719 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
720 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
721 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
722 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
723 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
724 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
725 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
726 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
727 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
728 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
729 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
730 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
731 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
732 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
733 Quiédeville for the patch.
734 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
736 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
737 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
738 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
739 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
740 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
741 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
742 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
743 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
745 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
746 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
747 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
748 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
749 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
750 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
752 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
753 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
754 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
755 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
757 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
758 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
759 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
760 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
761 Hess for reporting this bug.
762 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
763 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
764 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
765 is linked with the shipped library, too.
766 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
767 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
768 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
769 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
770 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
773 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
774 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
775 Díaz for fixing this bug.
776 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
777 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
778 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
779 for reporting the bug.
781 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
782 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
783 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
784 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
785 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
786 providing an OpenBSD system.
787 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
788 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
789 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
790 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
791 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
793 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
795 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
796 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
797 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
798 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
799 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
801 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
802 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
803 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
805 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
806 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
807 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
808 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
810 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
811 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
812 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
813 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
814 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
815 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
816 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
817 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
818 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
819 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
820 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
821 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
822 initialized, the daemon may crash.
824 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
825 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
826 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
827 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
828 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
829 for finding and fixing most of them.
830 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
831 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
833 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
834 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
835 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
836 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
837 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
838 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
839 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
840 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
841 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
842 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
843 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
845 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
846 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
847 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
848 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
850 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
851 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
852 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
853 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
854 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
855 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
856 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
857 Kuhnle for the patch.
858 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
859 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
860 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
861 MacEachern for the patch.
862 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
863 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
864 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
865 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
866 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
867 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
868 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
869 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
870 select interfaces, too.
871 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
872 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
873 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
875 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
876 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
877 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
878 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
879 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
880 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
881 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
882 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
883 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
884 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
886 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
887 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
888 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
889 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
890 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
891 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
892 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
893 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
895 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
896 been added. Portability fixes.
897 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
898 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
899 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
901 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
904 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
905 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
906 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
907 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
908 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
909 providing an OpenBSD system.
910 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
911 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
913 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
914 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
915 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
916 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
917 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
918 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
920 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
921 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
922 initialized, the daemon may crash.
923 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
925 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
926 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
928 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
929 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
930 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
932 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
933 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
934 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
935 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
937 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
938 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
939 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
940 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
942 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
943 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
944 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
945 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
946 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
947 provide these necessary functions.
948 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
949 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
951 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
952 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
953 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
954 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
956 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
957 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
958 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
959 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
960 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
961 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
963 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
964 invalid configuration options.
965 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
966 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
967 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
969 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
970 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
971 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
972 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
974 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
975 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
976 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
977 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
978 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
979 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
980 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
981 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
983 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
984 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
985 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
986 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
987 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
988 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
989 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
990 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
991 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
992 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
993 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
994 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
996 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
997 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1000 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
1001 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
1002 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
1004 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
1005 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
1006 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
1007 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
1008 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
1009 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
1011 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
1012 email, using the `esmtp' library.
1013 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
1014 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
1016 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
1017 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
1018 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
1019 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
1021 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
1022 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
1023 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
1024 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
1025 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
1027 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
1028 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
1029 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
1031 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
1032 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1033 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1034 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1036 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1037 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1038 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1039 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
1040 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1041 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1042 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1043 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1044 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1045 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1046 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1047 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1049 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1050 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1051 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1053 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
1054 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1055 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1056 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1058 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1059 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1060 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1061 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1062 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1063 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1064 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1065 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1067 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1068 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1069 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1070 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1071 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1072 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1073 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1076 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
1077 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
1078 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1080 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1081 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
1083 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
1084 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
1085 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
1086 architecture collectd is being built on.
1087 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
1089 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
1091 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
1092 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
1093 values under Solaris.
1094 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
1095 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
1097 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
1098 returned by some broken drivers.
1100 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
1101 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
1102 to kyrone for reporting this.
1103 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
1105 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
1107 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
1108 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
1109 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
1110 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
1112 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
1113 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
1114 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
1115 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
1116 flush its values to disk.
1117 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
1118 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
1119 for each data source.
1120 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
1122 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
1123 page of an Ascent server.
1124 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1125 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
1126 specific disks has been added.
1127 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1128 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
1129 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
1131 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
1132 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
1133 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
1134 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
1135 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
1136 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
1137 configuration has been decreased.
1138 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
1139 continuously reading from log files.
1140 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
1141 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
1142 and number of channels.
1143 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1144 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
1145 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
1147 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
1148 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
1150 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
1152 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
1153 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
1154 again has been applied.
1155 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1157 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1158 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
1160 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1161 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1162 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
1165 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
1166 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1167 they are in non-standard paths.
1168 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1169 if the libc expects it.
1170 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1171 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1173 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1174 using a buffer of static size.
1175 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1177 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1178 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1180 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
1181 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
1182 `Persist' threshold options.
1183 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
1184 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1185 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1186 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1187 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1189 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
1190 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1192 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1193 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1194 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1195 cross-platform compatibility.
1196 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1197 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1198 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1200 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
1201 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
1202 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
1203 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
1204 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
1205 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
1207 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
1208 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
1209 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
1210 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
1211 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
1212 wants to add custom type definitions.
1213 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
1214 entire directories and shell wildcards.
1215 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
1216 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
1217 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
1218 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
1219 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
1220 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
1221 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
1222 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
1223 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
1224 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
1225 domain name lookups in this plugin.
1226 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
1227 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
1228 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
1229 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
1230 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
1231 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
1232 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
1233 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
1234 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
1235 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
1236 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
1237 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
1238 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
1239 Technology group for this plugin.
1241 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
1242 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1243 they are in non-standard paths.
1244 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1245 if the libc expects it.
1246 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1247 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1249 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1250 using a buffer of static size.
1251 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1253 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1254 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1256 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
1257 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1258 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1259 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1260 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1262 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
1263 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
1264 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1266 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
1267 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
1268 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
1269 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
1270 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1271 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1272 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1273 cross-platform compatibility.
1274 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1275 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
1276 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1277 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1279 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
1280 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1281 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1282 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1283 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1285 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
1286 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1287 of the libsensors library.
1289 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
1290 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
1291 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
1293 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
1294 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1297 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
1298 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
1299 enabled on the host.
1300 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1302 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
1303 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
1304 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
1305 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
1306 definitions separate from the host definitions.
1307 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
1308 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
1309 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
1310 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
1311 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
1312 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
1313 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
1314 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
1315 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
1316 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
1317 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1318 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1319 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
1320 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
1321 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
1322 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
1323 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
1324 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
1325 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
1326 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
1327 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
1329 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
1330 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1331 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1332 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1333 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1335 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
1336 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
1338 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1339 of the libsensors library.
1341 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
1342 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
1343 it's in a non-standard location.
1344 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
1345 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
1346 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
1347 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
1348 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
1349 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1351 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
1352 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
1354 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1355 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1357 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
1358 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1359 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1360 noise quality as percentage.
1361 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1362 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
1363 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
1364 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
1365 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
1366 support for the `timeticks' type.
1368 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
1369 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
1370 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
1371 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
1373 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1374 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1375 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1377 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1378 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1379 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1380 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1382 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
1383 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
1384 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
1385 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
1387 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
1388 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
1389 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
1390 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
1391 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
1392 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
1393 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
1394 to not block data collection.
1395 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
1396 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
1397 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
1399 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
1400 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
1401 of music played with xmms.
1403 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
1404 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1405 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1406 noise quality as percentage.
1407 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1409 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
1410 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1411 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1412 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1414 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1415 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1416 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1417 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1419 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
1420 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
1422 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
1423 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
1424 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
1425 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
1426 (i. e. without quotes).
1427 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
1428 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
1429 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1431 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
1432 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
1433 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
1434 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
1436 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
1437 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
1438 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
1441 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
1442 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
1444 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
1445 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1446 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
1447 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1448 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
1449 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1450 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
1452 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
1453 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
1454 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
1455 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
1456 initialized correctly.
1457 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
1459 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
1460 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
1461 they're given in numerically form.
1463 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
1464 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
1465 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
1468 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
1469 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
1470 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
1471 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
1472 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
1473 thread-safe functions from now on.
1474 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
1475 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
1476 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
1478 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
1479 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
1480 write to increase IO-performance.
1481 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
1482 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
1483 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
1484 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
1485 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
1487 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
1488 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
1489 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
1491 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
1492 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
1493 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
1494 or STDOUT or STDERR.
1495 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
1496 system's syslog daemon.
1497 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
1498 entropy currently being available to the system.
1499 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
1500 back values provided by the forked processes.
1501 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
1502 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
1504 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
1505 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
1506 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
1507 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
1508 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
1509 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
1510 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
1511 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
1512 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
1514 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
1515 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1516 noise quality as percentage.
1518 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
1519 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1521 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
1522 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
1523 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
1524 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
1525 were accounted as `zombies'.
1527 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
1528 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
1531 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
1532 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
1533 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
1535 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
1536 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
1537 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
1538 segfault with some libcs.
1540 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
1541 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
1542 under Solaris again.
1543 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
1545 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
1546 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
1548 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
1549 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
1550 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
1551 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
1552 write init.d-scripts for it.
1553 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
1554 caused problems every now and then.
1555 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
1556 filesystem types or devices.
1557 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
1558 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
1560 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
1561 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
1562 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
1563 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
1564 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
1565 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
1566 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
1567 segment size and pagefaults.
1568 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
1569 queries multimeters.
1570 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
1571 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
1572 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
1574 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
1575 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
1576 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
1577 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
1579 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
1580 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
1581 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
1582 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
1585 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
1586 * The sample config file has been improved.
1587 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
1588 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
1589 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
1590 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
1592 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
1593 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
1594 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
1596 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
1597 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
1599 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
1600 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
1601 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
1602 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
1604 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
1605 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
1606 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
1607 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
1608 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
1609 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
1610 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
1611 with a test environment :)
1612 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
1615 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
1616 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
1617 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
1619 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
1620 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
1621 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
1623 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
1624 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
1625 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
1627 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
1628 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
1630 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
1631 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1632 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1633 approximately 7.6 days.
1635 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
1636 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1637 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1638 approximately 7.6 days.
1640 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
1641 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
1643 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1645 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1647 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1648 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1649 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1650 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1651 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1653 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1654 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1655 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1656 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1657 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1658 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1659 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1660 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1662 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1663 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1664 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1665 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1667 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1668 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1669 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1671 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1672 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1673 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1675 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1676 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1677 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1680 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1681 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1682 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1684 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1685 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1686 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1687 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1689 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1690 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1691 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1693 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1694 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1696 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1697 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1699 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1700 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1702 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1703 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1705 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1706 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1707 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1708 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1709 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1710 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1711 address and/or port than localhost.
1712 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1713 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1714 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1715 be set in the configfile.
1717 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1718 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1719 client mode. This released fixes this.
1721 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1722 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1723 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1726 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1727 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1729 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1730 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1731 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1732 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1734 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1735 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1736 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1739 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1740 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1741 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1743 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1744 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1745 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1746 currently logged in users.
1747 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1748 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1749 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1750 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1752 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1753 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1754 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1755 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1756 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1757 with the `-c' argument.
1758 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1759 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1760 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1761 Barcellos for this patch.
1763 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1764 * New modules have been added:
1765 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1766 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1767 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1768 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1770 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1771 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1773 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1774 between polls up to one day.
1775 * The init.d files have been improved.
1776 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1778 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1779 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1780 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1782 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1783 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1784 multicast) has been added.
1785 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1786 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1787 to be linked against an external library.
1788 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1789 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1791 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1792 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1794 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1795 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1796 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1797 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1798 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1799 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1800 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1801 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1802 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1805 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1806 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1808 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1810 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1811 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1813 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1814 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1815 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1816 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1818 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1819 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1820 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1822 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1823 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1824 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1825 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1826 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1827 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1828 statistics will not work.
1830 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1831 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1832 weird strings as disk-names..
1834 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1835 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1836 about the disks and partitions.
1838 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1839 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1840 and/or kernel versions.
1842 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1843 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1844 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1846 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1847 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1848 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1850 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1851 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1853 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1854 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1856 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1858 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1859 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1861 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1862 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob