1 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
2 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
3 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
4 Weiskircher for the patch.
5 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
6 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
7 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
8 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
9 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
10 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
11 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
12 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
13 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
14 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
15 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
16 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
17 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
19 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
20 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
21 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
22 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
23 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
24 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
25 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
26 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
27 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
28 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
29 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
30 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
31 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
32 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
33 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
34 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
35 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
36 storage has been added.
37 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
40 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
41 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
43 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
44 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
45 issues on some platforms.
46 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
47 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
48 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
51 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
52 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
53 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
54 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
55 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
56 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
58 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
59 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
60 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
61 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
62 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
63 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
64 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
65 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
66 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
67 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
68 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
70 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
71 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
72 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
73 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
74 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
75 Aman Gupta for the patch.
76 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
77 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
78 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
79 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
80 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
82 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
83 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
85 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
86 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
87 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
88 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
89 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
90 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
91 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
92 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
93 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
94 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
95 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
96 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
97 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
98 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
100 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
101 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
103 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
104 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
105 issues on some platforms.
106 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
107 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
108 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
111 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
112 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
113 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
114 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
115 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
116 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
118 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
119 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
120 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
121 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
122 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
123 Hess for reporting this bug.
124 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
125 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
126 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
127 is linked with the shipped library, too.
128 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
129 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
130 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
131 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
132 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
133 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
134 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
135 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
136 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
137 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
138 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
139 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
140 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
143 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
144 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
146 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
147 Díaz for fixing this bug.
148 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
149 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
150 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
151 for reporting the bug.
152 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
154 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
155 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
156 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
157 libtool 2.2 has been added.
158 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
159 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
160 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
161 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
162 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
164 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
165 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
166 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
167 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
168 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
170 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
171 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
173 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
174 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
175 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
176 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
177 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
178 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
179 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
180 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
181 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
182 Konetzko for the patch.
183 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
184 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
185 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
186 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
187 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
188 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
189 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
190 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
191 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
192 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
193 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
194 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
195 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
196 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
197 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
198 Quiédeville for the patch.
199 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
201 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
202 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
203 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
204 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
205 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
206 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
207 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
208 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
210 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
211 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
212 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
213 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
214 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
215 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
217 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
218 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
219 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
220 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
222 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
223 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
224 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
225 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
226 Hess for reporting this bug.
227 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
228 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
229 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
230 is linked with the shipped library, too.
231 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
232 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
233 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
234 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
235 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
238 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
239 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
240 Díaz for fixing this bug.
241 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
242 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
243 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
244 for reporting the bug.
246 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
247 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
248 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
249 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
250 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
251 providing an OpenBSD system.
252 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
253 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
254 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
255 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
256 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
258 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
260 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
261 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
262 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
263 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
264 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
266 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
267 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
268 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
270 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
271 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
272 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
273 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
275 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
276 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
277 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
278 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
279 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
280 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
281 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
282 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
283 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
284 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
285 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
286 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
287 initialized, the daemon may crash.
289 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
290 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
291 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
292 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
293 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
294 for finding and fixing most of them.
295 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
296 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
298 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
299 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
300 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
301 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
302 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
303 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
304 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
305 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
306 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
307 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
308 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
310 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
311 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
312 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
313 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
315 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
316 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
317 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
318 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
319 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
320 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
321 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
322 Kuhnle for the patch.
323 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
324 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
325 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
326 MacEachern for the patch.
327 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
328 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
329 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
330 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
331 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
332 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
333 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
334 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
335 select interfaces, too.
336 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
337 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
338 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
340 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
341 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
342 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
343 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
344 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
345 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
346 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
347 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
348 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
349 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
351 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
352 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
353 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
354 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
355 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
356 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
357 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
358 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
360 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
361 been added. Portability fixes.
362 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
363 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
364 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
366 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
369 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
370 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
371 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
372 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
373 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
374 providing an OpenBSD system.
375 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
376 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
378 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
379 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
380 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
381 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
382 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
383 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
385 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
386 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
387 initialized, the daemon may crash.
388 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
390 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
391 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
393 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
394 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
395 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
397 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
398 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
399 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
400 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
402 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
403 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
404 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
405 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
407 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
408 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
409 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
410 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
411 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
412 provide these necessary functions.
413 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
414 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
416 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
417 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
418 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
419 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
421 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
422 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
423 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
424 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
425 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
426 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
428 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
429 invalid configuration options.
430 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
431 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
432 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
434 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
435 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
436 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
437 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
439 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
440 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
441 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
442 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
443 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
444 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
445 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
446 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
448 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
449 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
450 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
451 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
452 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
453 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
454 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
455 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
456 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
457 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
458 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
459 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
461 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
462 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
465 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
466 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
467 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
469 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
470 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
471 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
472 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
473 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
474 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
476 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
477 email, using the `esmtp' library.
478 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
479 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
481 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
482 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
483 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
484 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
486 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
487 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
488 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
489 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
490 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
492 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
493 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
494 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
496 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
497 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
498 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
499 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
501 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
502 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
503 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
504 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
505 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
506 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
507 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
508 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
509 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
510 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
511 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
512 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
514 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
515 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
516 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
518 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
519 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
520 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
521 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
523 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
524 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
525 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
526 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
527 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
528 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
529 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
530 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
532 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
533 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
534 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
535 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
536 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
537 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
538 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
541 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
542 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
543 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
545 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
546 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
548 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
549 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
550 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
551 architecture collectd is being built on.
552 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
554 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
556 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
557 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
558 values under Solaris.
559 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
560 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
562 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
563 returned by some broken drivers.
565 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
566 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
567 to kyrone for reporting this.
568 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
570 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
572 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
573 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
574 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
575 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
577 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
578 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
579 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
580 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
581 flush its values to disk.
582 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
583 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
584 for each data source.
585 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
587 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
588 page of an Ascent server.
589 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
590 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
591 specific disks has been added.
592 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
593 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
594 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
596 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
597 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
598 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
599 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
600 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
601 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
602 configuration has been decreased.
603 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
604 continuously reading from log files.
605 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
606 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
607 and number of channels.
608 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
609 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
610 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
612 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
613 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
615 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
617 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
618 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
619 again has been applied.
620 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
622 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
623 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
625 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
626 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
627 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
630 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
631 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
632 they are in non-standard paths.
633 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
634 if the libc expects it.
635 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
636 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
638 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
639 using a buffer of static size.
640 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
642 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
643 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
645 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
646 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
647 `Persist' threshold options.
648 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
649 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
650 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
651 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
652 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
654 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
655 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
657 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
658 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
659 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
660 cross-platform compatibility.
661 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
662 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
663 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
665 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
666 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
667 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
668 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
669 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
670 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
672 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
673 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
674 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
675 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
676 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
677 wants to add custom type definitions.
678 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
679 entire directories and shell wildcards.
680 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
681 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
682 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
683 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
684 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
685 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
686 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
687 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
688 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
689 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
690 domain name lookups in this plugin.
691 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
692 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
693 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
694 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
695 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
696 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
697 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
698 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
699 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
700 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
701 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
702 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
703 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
704 Technology group for this plugin.
706 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
707 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
708 they are in non-standard paths.
709 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
710 if the libc expects it.
711 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
712 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
714 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
715 using a buffer of static size.
716 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
718 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
719 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
721 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
722 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
723 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
724 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
725 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
727 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
728 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
729 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
731 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
732 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
733 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
734 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
735 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
736 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
737 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
738 cross-platform compatibility.
739 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
740 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
741 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
742 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
744 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
745 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
746 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
747 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
748 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
750 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
751 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
752 of the libsensors library.
754 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
755 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
756 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
758 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
759 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
762 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
763 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
765 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
767 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
768 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
769 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
770 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
771 definitions separate from the host definitions.
772 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
773 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
774 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
775 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
776 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
777 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
778 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
779 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
780 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
781 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
782 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
783 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
784 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
785 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
786 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
787 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
788 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
789 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
790 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
791 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
792 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
794 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
795 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
796 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
797 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
798 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
800 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
801 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
803 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
804 of the libsensors library.
806 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
807 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
808 it's in a non-standard location.
809 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
810 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
811 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
812 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
813 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
814 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
816 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
817 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
819 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
820 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
822 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
823 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
824 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
825 noise quality as percentage.
826 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
827 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
828 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
829 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
830 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
831 support for the `timeticks' type.
833 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
834 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
835 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
836 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
838 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
839 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
840 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
842 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
843 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
844 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
845 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
847 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
848 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
849 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
850 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
852 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
853 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
854 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
855 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
856 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
857 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
858 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
859 to not block data collection.
860 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
861 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
862 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
864 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
865 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
866 of music played with xmms.
868 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
869 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
870 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
871 noise quality as percentage.
872 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
874 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
875 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
876 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
877 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
879 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
880 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
881 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
882 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
884 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
885 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
887 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
888 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
889 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
890 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
891 (i. e. without quotes).
892 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
893 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
894 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
896 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
897 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
898 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
899 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
901 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
902 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
903 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
906 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
907 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
909 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
910 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
911 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
912 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
913 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
914 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
915 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
917 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
918 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
919 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
920 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
921 initialized correctly.
922 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
924 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
925 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
926 they're given in numerically form.
928 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
929 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
930 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
933 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
934 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
935 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
936 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
937 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
938 thread-safe functions from now on.
939 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
940 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
941 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
943 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
944 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
945 write to increase IO-performance.
946 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
947 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
948 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
949 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
950 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
952 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
953 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
954 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
956 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
957 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
958 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
960 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
961 system's syslog daemon.
962 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
963 entropy currently being available to the system.
964 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
965 back values provided by the forked processes.
966 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
967 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
969 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
970 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
971 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
972 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
973 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
974 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
975 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
976 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
977 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
979 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
980 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
981 noise quality as percentage.
983 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
984 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
986 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
987 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
988 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
989 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
990 were accounted as `zombies'.
992 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
993 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
996 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
997 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
998 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
1000 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
1001 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
1002 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
1003 segfault with some libcs.
1005 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
1006 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
1007 under Solaris again.
1008 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
1010 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
1011 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
1013 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
1014 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
1015 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
1016 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
1017 write init.d-scripts for it.
1018 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
1019 caused problems every now and then.
1020 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
1021 filesystem types or devices.
1022 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
1023 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
1025 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
1026 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
1027 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
1028 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
1029 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
1030 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
1031 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
1032 segment size and pagefaults.
1033 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
1034 queries multimeters.
1035 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
1036 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
1037 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
1039 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
1040 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
1041 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
1042 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
1044 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
1045 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
1046 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
1047 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
1050 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
1051 * The sample config file has been improved.
1052 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
1053 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
1054 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
1055 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
1057 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
1058 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
1059 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
1061 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
1062 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
1064 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
1065 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
1066 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
1067 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
1069 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
1070 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
1071 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
1072 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
1073 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
1074 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
1075 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
1076 with a test environment :)
1077 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
1080 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
1081 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
1082 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
1084 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
1085 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
1086 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
1088 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
1089 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
1090 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
1092 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
1093 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
1095 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
1096 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1097 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1098 approximately 7.6 days.
1100 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
1101 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1102 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1103 approximately 7.6 days.
1105 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
1106 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
1108 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1110 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1112 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1113 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1114 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1115 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1116 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1118 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1119 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1120 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1121 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1122 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1123 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1124 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1125 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1127 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1128 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1129 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1130 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1132 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1133 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1134 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1136 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1137 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1138 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1140 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1141 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1142 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1145 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1146 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1147 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1149 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1150 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1151 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1152 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1154 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1155 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1156 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1158 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1159 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1161 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1162 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1164 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1165 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1167 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1168 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1170 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1171 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1172 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1173 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1174 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1175 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1176 address and/or port than localhost.
1177 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1178 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1179 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1180 be set in the configfile.
1182 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1183 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1184 client mode. This released fixes this.
1186 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1187 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1188 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1191 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1192 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1194 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1195 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1196 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1197 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1199 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1200 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1201 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1204 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1205 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1206 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1208 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1209 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1210 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1211 currently logged in users.
1212 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1213 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1214 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1215 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1217 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1218 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1219 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1220 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1221 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1222 with the `-c' argument.
1223 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1224 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1225 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1226 Barcellos for this patch.
1228 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1229 * New modules have been added:
1230 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1231 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1232 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1233 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1235 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1236 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1238 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1239 between polls up to one day.
1240 * The init.d files have been improved.
1241 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1243 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1244 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1245 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1247 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1248 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1249 multicast) has been added.
1250 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1251 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1252 to be linked against an external library.
1253 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1254 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1256 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1257 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1259 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1260 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1261 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1262 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1263 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1264 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1265 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1266 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1267 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1270 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1271 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1273 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1275 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1276 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1278 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1279 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1280 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1281 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1283 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1284 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1285 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1287 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1288 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1289 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1290 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1291 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1292 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1293 statistics will not work.
1295 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1296 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1297 weird strings as disk-names..
1299 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1300 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1301 about the disks and partitions.
1303 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1304 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1305 and/or kernel versions.
1307 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1308 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1309 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1311 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1312 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1313 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1315 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1316 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1318 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1319 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1321 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1323 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1324 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1326 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1327 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob