1 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
2 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
3 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
4 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
5 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
6 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
8 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
9 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
10 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
11 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
12 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
13 Hess for reporting this bug.
14 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
15 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
16 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
17 is linked with the shipped library, too.
18 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
19 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
20 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
21 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
22 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
23 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
24 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
25 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
26 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
27 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
28 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
29 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
30 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
33 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
34 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
36 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
37 Díaz for fixing this bug.
38 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
39 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
40 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
41 for reporting the bug.
42 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
44 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
45 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
46 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
47 libtool 2.2 has been added.
48 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
49 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
50 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
51 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
52 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
54 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
55 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
56 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
57 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
58 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
60 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
61 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
63 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
64 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
65 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
66 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
67 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
68 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
69 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
70 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
71 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
72 Konetzko for the patch.
73 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
74 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
75 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
76 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
77 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
78 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
79 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
80 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
81 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
82 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
83 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
84 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
85 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
86 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
87 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
88 Quiédeville for the patch.
89 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
91 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
92 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
93 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
94 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
95 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
96 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
97 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
98 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
100 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
101 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
102 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
103 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
104 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
105 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
107 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
108 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
109 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
110 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
112 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
113 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
114 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
115 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
116 Hess for reporting this bug.
117 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
118 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
119 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
120 is linked with the shipped library, too.
121 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
122 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
123 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
124 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
125 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
128 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
129 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
130 Díaz for fixing this bug.
131 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
132 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
133 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
134 for reporting the bug.
136 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
137 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
138 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
139 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
140 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
141 providing an OpenBSD system.
142 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
143 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
144 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
145 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
146 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
148 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
150 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
151 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
152 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
153 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
154 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
156 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
157 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
158 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
160 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
161 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
162 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
163 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
165 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
166 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
167 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
168 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
169 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
170 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
171 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
172 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
173 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
174 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
175 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
176 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
177 initialized, the daemon may crash.
179 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
180 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
181 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
182 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
183 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
184 for finding and fixing most of them.
185 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
186 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
188 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
189 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
190 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
191 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
192 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
193 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
194 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
195 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
196 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
197 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
198 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
200 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
201 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
202 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
203 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
205 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
206 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
207 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
208 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
209 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
210 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
211 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
212 Kuhnle for the patch.
213 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
214 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
215 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
216 MacEachern for the patch.
217 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
218 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
219 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
220 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
221 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
222 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
223 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
224 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
225 select interfaces, too.
226 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
227 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
228 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
230 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
231 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
232 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
233 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
234 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
235 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
236 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
237 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
238 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
239 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
241 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
242 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
243 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
244 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
245 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
246 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
247 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
248 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
250 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
251 been added. Portability fixes.
252 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
253 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
254 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
256 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
259 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
260 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
261 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
262 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
263 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
264 providing an OpenBSD system.
265 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
266 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
268 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
269 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
270 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
271 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
272 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
273 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
275 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
276 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
277 initialized, the daemon may crash.
278 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
280 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
281 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
283 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
284 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
285 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
287 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
288 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
289 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
290 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
292 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
293 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
294 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
295 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
297 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
298 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
299 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
300 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
301 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
302 provide these necessary functions.
303 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
304 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
306 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
307 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
308 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
309 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
311 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
312 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
313 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
314 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
315 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
316 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
318 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
319 invalid configuration options.
320 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
321 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
322 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
324 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
325 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
326 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
327 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
329 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
330 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
331 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
332 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
333 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
334 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
335 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
336 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
338 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
339 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
340 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
341 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
342 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
343 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
344 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
345 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
346 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
347 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
348 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
349 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
351 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
352 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
355 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
356 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
357 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
359 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
360 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
361 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
362 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
363 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
364 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
366 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
367 email, using the `esmtp' library.
368 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
369 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
371 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
372 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
373 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
374 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
376 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
377 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
378 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
379 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
380 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
382 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
383 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
384 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
386 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
387 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
388 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
389 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
391 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
392 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
393 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
394 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
395 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
396 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
397 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
398 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
399 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
400 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
401 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
402 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
404 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
405 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
406 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
408 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
409 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
410 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
411 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
413 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
414 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
415 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
416 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
417 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
418 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
419 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
420 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
422 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
423 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
424 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
425 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
426 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
427 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
428 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
431 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
432 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
433 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
435 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
436 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
438 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
439 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
440 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
441 architecture collectd is being built on.
442 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
444 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
446 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
447 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
448 values under Solaris.
449 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
450 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
452 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
453 returned by some broken drivers.
455 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
456 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
457 to kyrone for reporting this.
458 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
460 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
462 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
463 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
464 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
465 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
467 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
468 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
469 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
470 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
471 flush its values to disk.
472 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
473 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
474 for each data source.
475 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
477 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
478 page of an Ascent server.
479 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
480 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
481 specific disks has been added.
482 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
483 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
484 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
486 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
487 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
488 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
489 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
490 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
491 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
492 configuration has been decreased.
493 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
494 continuously reading from log files.
495 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
496 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
497 and number of channels.
498 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
499 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
500 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
502 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
503 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
505 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
507 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
508 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
509 again has been applied.
510 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
512 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
513 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
515 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
516 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
517 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
520 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
521 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
522 they are in non-standard paths.
523 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
524 if the libc expects it.
525 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
526 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
528 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
529 using a buffer of static size.
530 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
532 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
533 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
535 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
536 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
537 `Persist' threshold options.
538 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
539 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
540 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
541 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
542 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
544 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
545 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
547 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
548 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
549 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
550 cross-platform compatibility.
551 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
552 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
553 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
555 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
556 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
557 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
558 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
559 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
560 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
562 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
563 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
564 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
565 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
566 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
567 wants to add custom type definitions.
568 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
569 entire directories and shell wildcards.
570 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
571 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
572 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
573 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
574 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
575 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
576 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
577 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
578 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
579 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
580 domain name lookups in this plugin.
581 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
582 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
583 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
584 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
585 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
586 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
587 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
588 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
589 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
590 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
591 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
592 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
593 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
594 Technology group for this plugin.
596 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
597 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
598 they are in non-standard paths.
599 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
600 if the libc expects it.
601 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
602 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
604 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
605 using a buffer of static size.
606 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
608 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
609 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
611 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
612 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
613 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
614 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
615 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
617 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
618 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
619 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
621 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
622 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
623 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
624 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
625 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
626 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
627 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
628 cross-platform compatibility.
629 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
630 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
631 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
632 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
634 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
635 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
636 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
637 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
638 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
640 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
641 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
642 of the libsensors library.
644 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
645 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
646 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
648 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
649 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
652 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
653 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
655 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
657 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
658 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
659 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
660 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
661 definitions separate from the host definitions.
662 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
663 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
664 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
665 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
666 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
667 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
668 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
669 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
670 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
671 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
672 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
673 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
674 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
675 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
676 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
677 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
678 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
679 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
680 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
681 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
682 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
684 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
685 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
686 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
687 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
688 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
690 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
691 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
693 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
694 of the libsensors library.
696 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
697 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
698 it's in a non-standard location.
699 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
700 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
701 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
702 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
703 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
704 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
706 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
707 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
709 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
710 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
712 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
713 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
714 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
715 noise quality as percentage.
716 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
717 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
718 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
719 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
720 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
721 support for the `timeticks' type.
723 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
724 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
725 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
726 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
728 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
729 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
730 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
732 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
733 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
734 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
735 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
737 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
738 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
739 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
740 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
742 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
743 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
744 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
745 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
746 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
747 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
748 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
749 to not block data collection.
750 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
751 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
752 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
754 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
755 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
756 of music played with xmms.
758 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
759 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
760 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
761 noise quality as percentage.
762 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
764 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
765 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
766 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
767 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
769 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
770 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
771 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
772 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
774 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
775 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
777 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
778 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
779 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
780 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
781 (i. e. without quotes).
782 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
783 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
784 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
786 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
787 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
788 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
789 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
791 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
792 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
793 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
796 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
797 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
799 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
800 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
801 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
802 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
803 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
804 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
805 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
807 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
808 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
809 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
810 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
811 initialized correctly.
812 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
814 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
815 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
816 they're given in numerically form.
818 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
819 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
820 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
823 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
824 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
825 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
826 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
827 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
828 thread-safe functions from now on.
829 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
830 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
831 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
833 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
834 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
835 write to increase IO-performance.
836 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
837 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
838 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
839 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
840 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
842 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
843 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
844 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
846 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
847 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
848 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
850 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
851 system's syslog daemon.
852 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
853 entropy currently being available to the system.
854 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
855 back values provided by the forked processes.
856 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
857 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
859 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
860 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
861 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
862 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
863 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
864 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
865 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
866 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
867 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
869 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
870 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
871 noise quality as percentage.
873 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
874 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
876 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
877 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
878 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
879 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
880 were accounted as `zombies'.
882 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
883 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
886 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
887 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
888 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
890 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
891 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
892 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
893 segfault with some libcs.
895 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
896 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
898 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
900 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
901 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
903 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
904 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
905 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
906 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
907 write init.d-scripts for it.
908 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
909 caused problems every now and then.
910 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
911 filesystem types or devices.
912 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
913 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
915 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
916 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
917 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
918 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
919 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
920 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
921 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
922 segment size and pagefaults.
923 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
925 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
926 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
927 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
929 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
930 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
931 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
932 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
934 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
935 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
936 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
937 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
940 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
941 * The sample config file has been improved.
942 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
943 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
944 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
945 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
947 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
948 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
949 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
951 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
952 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
954 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
955 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
956 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
957 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
959 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
960 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
961 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
962 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
963 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
964 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
965 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
966 with a test environment :)
967 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
970 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
971 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
972 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
974 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
975 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
976 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
978 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
979 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
980 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
982 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
983 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
985 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
986 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
987 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
988 approximately 7.6 days.
990 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
991 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
992 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
993 approximately 7.6 days.
995 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
996 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
998 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1000 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1002 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1003 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1004 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1005 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1006 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1008 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1009 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1010 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1011 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1012 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1013 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1014 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1015 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1017 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1018 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1019 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1020 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1022 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1023 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1024 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1026 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1027 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1028 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1030 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1031 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1032 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1035 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1036 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1037 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1039 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1040 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1041 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1042 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1044 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1045 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1046 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1048 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1049 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1051 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1052 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1054 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1055 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1057 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1058 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1060 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1061 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1062 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1063 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1064 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1065 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1066 address and/or port than localhost.
1067 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1068 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1069 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1070 be set in the configfile.
1072 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1073 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1074 client mode. This released fixes this.
1076 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1077 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1078 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1081 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1082 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1084 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1085 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1086 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1087 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1089 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1090 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1091 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1094 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1095 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1096 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1098 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1099 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1100 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1101 currently logged in users.
1102 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1103 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1104 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1105 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1107 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1108 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1109 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1110 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1111 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1112 with the `-c' argument.
1113 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1114 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1115 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1116 Barcellos for this patch.
1118 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1119 * New modules have been added:
1120 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1121 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1122 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1123 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1125 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1126 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1128 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1129 between polls up to one day.
1130 * The init.d files have been improved.
1131 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1133 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1134 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1135 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1137 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1138 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1139 multicast) has been added.
1140 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1141 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1142 to be linked against an external library.
1143 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1144 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1146 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1147 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1149 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1150 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1151 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1152 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1153 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1154 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1155 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1156 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1157 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1160 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1161 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1163 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1165 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1166 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1168 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1169 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1170 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1171 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1173 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1174 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1175 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1177 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1178 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1179 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1180 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1181 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1182 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1183 statistics will not work.
1185 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1186 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1187 weird strings as disk-names..
1189 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1190 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1191 about the disks and partitions.
1193 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1194 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1195 and/or kernel versions.
1197 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1198 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1199 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1201 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1202 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1203 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1205 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1206 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1208 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1209 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1211 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1213 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1214 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1216 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1217 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob