1 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
2 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
4 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
5 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
6 issues on some platforms.
7 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
8 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
9 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
12 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
13 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
14 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
15 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
16 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
17 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for hit
19 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
20 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
21 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
22 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
23 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
24 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
25 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
26 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
27 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
28 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
29 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
31 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
32 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
33 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
34 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
35 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
36 Aman Gupta for the patch.
37 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
38 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
39 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
40 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
41 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
43 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
44 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
46 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
47 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
48 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
49 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
50 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
51 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
52 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
53 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
54 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
55 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
56 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
57 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
58 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
59 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
61 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
62 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
64 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
65 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
66 issues on some platforms.
67 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
68 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
69 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
72 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
73 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
74 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
75 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
76 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
77 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
79 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
80 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
81 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
82 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
83 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
84 Hess for reporting this bug.
85 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
86 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
87 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
88 is linked with the shipped library, too.
89 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
90 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
91 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
92 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
93 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
94 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
95 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
96 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
97 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
98 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
99 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
100 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
101 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
104 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
105 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
107 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
108 Díaz for fixing this bug.
109 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
110 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
111 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
112 for reporting the bug.
113 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
115 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
116 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
117 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
118 libtool 2.2 has been added.
119 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
120 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
121 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
122 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
123 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
125 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
126 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
127 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
128 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
129 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
131 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
132 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
134 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
135 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
136 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
137 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
138 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
139 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
140 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
141 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
142 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
143 Konetzko for the patch.
144 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
145 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
146 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
147 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
148 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
149 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
150 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
151 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
152 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
153 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
154 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
155 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
156 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
157 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
158 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
159 Quiédeville for the patch.
160 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
162 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
163 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
164 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
165 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
166 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
167 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
168 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
169 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
171 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
172 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
173 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
174 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
175 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
176 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
178 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
179 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
180 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
181 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
183 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
184 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
185 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
186 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
187 Hess for reporting this bug.
188 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
189 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
190 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
191 is linked with the shipped library, too.
192 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
193 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
194 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
195 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
196 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
199 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
200 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
201 Díaz for fixing this bug.
202 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
203 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
204 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
205 for reporting the bug.
207 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
208 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
209 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
210 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
211 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
212 providing an OpenBSD system.
213 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
214 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
215 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
216 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
217 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
219 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
221 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
222 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
223 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
224 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
225 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
227 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
228 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
229 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
231 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
232 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
233 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
234 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
236 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
237 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
238 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
239 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
240 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
241 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
242 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
243 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
244 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
245 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
246 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
247 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
248 initialized, the daemon may crash.
250 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
251 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
252 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
253 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
254 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
255 for finding and fixing most of them.
256 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
257 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
259 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
260 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
261 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
262 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
263 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
264 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
265 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
266 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
267 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
268 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
269 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
271 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
272 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
273 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
274 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
276 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
277 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
278 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
279 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
280 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
281 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
282 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
283 Kuhnle for the patch.
284 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
285 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
286 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
287 MacEachern for the patch.
288 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
289 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
290 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
291 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
292 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
293 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
294 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
295 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
296 select interfaces, too.
297 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
298 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
299 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
301 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
302 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
303 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
304 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
305 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
306 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
307 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
308 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
309 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
310 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
312 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
313 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
314 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
315 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
316 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
317 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
318 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
319 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
321 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
322 been added. Portability fixes.
323 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
324 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
325 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
327 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
330 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
331 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
332 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
333 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
334 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
335 providing an OpenBSD system.
336 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
337 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
339 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
340 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
341 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
342 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
343 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
344 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
346 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
347 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
348 initialized, the daemon may crash.
349 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
351 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
352 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
354 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
355 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
356 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
358 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
359 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
360 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
361 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
363 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
364 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
365 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
366 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
368 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
369 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
370 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
371 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
372 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
373 provide these necessary functions.
374 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
375 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
377 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
378 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
379 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
380 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
382 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
383 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
384 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
385 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
386 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
387 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
389 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
390 invalid configuration options.
391 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
392 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
393 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
395 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
396 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
397 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
398 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
400 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
401 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
402 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
403 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
404 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
405 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
406 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
407 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
409 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
410 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
411 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
412 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
413 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
414 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
415 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
416 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
417 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
418 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
419 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
420 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
422 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
423 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
426 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
427 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
428 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
430 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
431 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
432 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
433 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
434 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
435 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
437 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
438 email, using the `esmtp' library.
439 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
440 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
442 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
443 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
444 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
445 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
447 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
448 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
449 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
450 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
451 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
453 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
454 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
455 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
457 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
458 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
459 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
460 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
462 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
463 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
464 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
465 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
466 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
467 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
468 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
469 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
470 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
471 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
472 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
473 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
475 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
476 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
477 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
479 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
480 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
481 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
482 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
484 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
485 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
486 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
487 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
488 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
489 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
490 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
491 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
493 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
494 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
495 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
496 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
497 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
498 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
499 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
502 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
503 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
504 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
506 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
507 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
509 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
510 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
511 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
512 architecture collectd is being built on.
513 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
515 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
517 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
518 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
519 values under Solaris.
520 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
521 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
523 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
524 returned by some broken drivers.
526 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
527 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
528 to kyrone for reporting this.
529 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
531 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
533 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
534 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
535 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
536 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
538 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
539 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
540 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
541 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
542 flush its values to disk.
543 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
544 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
545 for each data source.
546 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
548 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
549 page of an Ascent server.
550 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
551 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
552 specific disks has been added.
553 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
554 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
555 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
557 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
558 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
559 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
560 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
561 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
562 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
563 configuration has been decreased.
564 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
565 continuously reading from log files.
566 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
567 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
568 and number of channels.
569 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
570 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
571 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
573 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
574 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
576 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
578 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
579 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
580 again has been applied.
581 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
583 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
584 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
586 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
587 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
588 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
591 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
592 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
593 they are in non-standard paths.
594 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
595 if the libc expects it.
596 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
597 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
599 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
600 using a buffer of static size.
601 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
603 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
604 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
606 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
607 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
608 `Persist' threshold options.
609 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
610 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
611 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
612 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
613 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
615 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
616 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
618 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
619 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
620 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
621 cross-platform compatibility.
622 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
623 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
624 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
626 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
627 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
628 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
629 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
630 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
631 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
633 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
634 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
635 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
636 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
637 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
638 wants to add custom type definitions.
639 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
640 entire directories and shell wildcards.
641 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
642 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
643 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
644 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
645 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
646 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
647 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
648 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
649 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
650 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
651 domain name lookups in this plugin.
652 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
653 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
654 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
655 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
656 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
657 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
658 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
659 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
660 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
661 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
662 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
663 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
664 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
665 Technology group for this plugin.
667 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
668 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
669 they are in non-standard paths.
670 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
671 if the libc expects it.
672 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
673 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
675 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
676 using a buffer of static size.
677 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
679 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
680 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
682 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
683 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
684 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
685 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
686 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
688 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
689 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
690 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
692 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
693 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
694 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
695 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
696 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
697 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
698 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
699 cross-platform compatibility.
700 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
701 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
702 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
703 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
705 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
706 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
707 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
708 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
709 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
711 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
712 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
713 of the libsensors library.
715 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
716 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
717 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
719 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
720 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
723 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
724 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
726 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
728 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
729 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
730 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
731 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
732 definitions separate from the host definitions.
733 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
734 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
735 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
736 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
737 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
738 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
739 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
740 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
741 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
742 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
743 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
744 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
745 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
746 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
747 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
748 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
749 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
750 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
751 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
752 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
753 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
755 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
756 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
757 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
758 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
759 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
761 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
762 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
764 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
765 of the libsensors library.
767 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
768 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
769 it's in a non-standard location.
770 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
771 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
772 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
773 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
774 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
775 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
777 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
778 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
780 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
781 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
783 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
784 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
785 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
786 noise quality as percentage.
787 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
788 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
789 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
790 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
791 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
792 support for the `timeticks' type.
794 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
795 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
796 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
797 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
799 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
800 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
801 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
803 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
804 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
805 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
806 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
808 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
809 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
810 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
811 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
813 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
814 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
815 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
816 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
817 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
818 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
819 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
820 to not block data collection.
821 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
822 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
823 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
825 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
826 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
827 of music played with xmms.
829 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
830 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
831 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
832 noise quality as percentage.
833 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
835 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
836 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
837 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
838 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
840 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
841 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
842 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
843 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
845 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
846 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
848 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
849 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
850 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
851 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
852 (i. e. without quotes).
853 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
854 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
855 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
857 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
858 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
859 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
860 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
862 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
863 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
864 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
867 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
868 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
870 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
871 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
872 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
873 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
874 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
875 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
876 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
878 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
879 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
880 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
881 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
882 initialized correctly.
883 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
885 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
886 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
887 they're given in numerically form.
889 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
890 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
891 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
894 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
895 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
896 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
897 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
898 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
899 thread-safe functions from now on.
900 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
901 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
902 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
904 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
905 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
906 write to increase IO-performance.
907 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
908 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
909 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
910 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
911 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
913 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
914 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
915 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
917 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
918 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
919 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
921 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
922 system's syslog daemon.
923 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
924 entropy currently being available to the system.
925 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
926 back values provided by the forked processes.
927 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
928 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
930 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
931 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
932 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
933 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
934 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
935 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
936 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
937 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
938 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
940 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
941 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
942 noise quality as percentage.
944 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
945 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
947 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
948 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
949 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
950 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
951 were accounted as `zombies'.
953 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
954 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
957 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
958 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
959 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
961 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
962 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
963 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
964 segfault with some libcs.
966 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
967 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
969 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
971 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
972 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
974 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
975 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
976 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
977 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
978 write init.d-scripts for it.
979 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
980 caused problems every now and then.
981 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
982 filesystem types or devices.
983 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
984 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
986 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
987 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
988 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
989 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
990 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
991 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
992 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
993 segment size and pagefaults.
994 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
996 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
997 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
998 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
1000 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
1001 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
1002 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
1003 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
1005 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
1006 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
1007 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
1008 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
1011 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
1012 * The sample config file has been improved.
1013 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
1014 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
1015 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
1016 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
1018 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
1019 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
1020 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
1022 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
1023 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
1025 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
1026 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
1027 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
1028 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
1030 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
1031 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
1032 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
1033 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
1034 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
1035 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
1036 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
1037 with a test environment :)
1038 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
1041 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
1042 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
1043 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
1045 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
1046 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
1047 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
1049 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
1050 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
1051 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
1053 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
1054 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
1056 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
1057 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1058 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1059 approximately 7.6 days.
1061 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
1062 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1063 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1064 approximately 7.6 days.
1066 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
1067 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
1069 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1071 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1073 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1074 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1075 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1076 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1077 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1079 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1080 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1081 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1082 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1083 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1084 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1085 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1086 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1088 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1089 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1090 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1091 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1093 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1094 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1095 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1097 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1098 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1099 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1101 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1102 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1103 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1106 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1107 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1108 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1110 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1111 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1112 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1113 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1115 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1116 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1117 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1119 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1120 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1122 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1123 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1125 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1126 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1128 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1129 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1131 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1132 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1133 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1134 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1135 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1136 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1137 address and/or port than localhost.
1138 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1139 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1140 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1141 be set in the configfile.
1143 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1144 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1145 client mode. This released fixes this.
1147 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1148 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1149 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1152 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1153 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1155 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1156 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1157 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1158 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1160 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1161 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1162 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1165 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1166 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1167 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1169 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1170 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1171 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1172 currently logged in users.
1173 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1174 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1175 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1176 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1178 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1179 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1180 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1181 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1182 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1183 with the `-c' argument.
1184 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1185 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1186 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1187 Barcellos for this patch.
1189 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1190 * New modules have been added:
1191 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1192 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1193 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1194 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1196 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1197 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1199 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1200 between polls up to one day.
1201 * The init.d files have been improved.
1202 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1204 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1205 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1206 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1208 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1209 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1210 multicast) has been added.
1211 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1212 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1213 to be linked against an external library.
1214 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1215 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1217 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1218 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1220 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1221 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1222 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1223 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1224 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1225 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1226 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1227 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1228 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1231 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1232 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1234 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1236 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1237 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1239 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1240 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1241 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1242 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1244 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1245 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1246 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1248 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1249 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1250 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1251 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1252 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1253 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1254 statistics will not work.
1256 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1257 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1258 weird strings as disk-names..
1260 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1261 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1262 about the disks and partitions.
1264 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1265 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1266 and/or kernel versions.
1268 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1269 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1270 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1272 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1273 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1274 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1276 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1277 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1279 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1280 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1282 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1284 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1285 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1287 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1288 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob