+2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
+ * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
+ been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
+ occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
+ * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
+ “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for hit
+ patches.
+ * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
+ the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
+ specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
+ from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
+ * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
+ than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
+ Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
+ * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
+ Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
+ * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
+ query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
+ Extensions” (JMX).
+ * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
+ Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
+ Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
+ * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
+ configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
+ Aman Gupta for the patch.
+ * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
+ the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
+ * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
+ write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
+ writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
+ patch.
+ * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
+ been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
+ patch.
+ * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
+ records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
+ Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
+ * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
+ used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
+ * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
+ collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
+ Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
+ * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
+ the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
+ (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
+ * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
+ lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
+ counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
+
+2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
+ * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
+ code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
+ * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
+ This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
+ old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
+ Díaz for the patch.
+ * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
+ * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
+ to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
+ * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
+ possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
+ Hess for reporting this bug.
+ * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
+ Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
+ updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
+ is linked with the shipped library, too.
+ * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
+ forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
+ forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
+ during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
+ * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
+ to Alan Pevec for the patch.
+ * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
+ value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
+ gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
+ * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
+ socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
+ incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
+ for his patches.
+
+2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
+ * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
+ bindings.
+ * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
+ Díaz for fixing this bug.
+ * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
+ code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
+ * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
+ for reporting the bug.
+ * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
+
+2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
+ * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
+ details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
+ libtool 2.2 has been added.
+ * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
+ first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
+ caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
+ J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
+ * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
+ fixed.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
+ resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
+ Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
+ * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
+ ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
+ this out.
+ * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
+ to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
+
+2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
+ * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
+ Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
+ * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
+ improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
+ * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
+ tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
+ * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
+ Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
+ Konetzko for the patch.
+ * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
+ multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
+ * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
+ making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
+ * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
+ memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
+ Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
+ * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
+ has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
+ * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
+ added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
+ * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
+ Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
+ * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
+ * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
+ Quiédeville for the patch.
+ * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
+ has been added.
+ * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
+ about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
+ * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
+ plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
+ * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
+ structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
+ * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
+ from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
+ plugin.
+ * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
+ information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
+ * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
+ deviation of round-trip times has been added.
+ * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
+ uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
+
+2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
+ * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
+ This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
+ old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
+ Díaz for the patch.
+ * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
+ to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
+ * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
+ possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
+ Hess for reporting this bug.
+ * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
+ Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
+ updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
+ is linked with the shipped library, too.
+ * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
+ to Alan Pevec for the patch.
+ * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
+ socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
+ incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
+ for his patches.
+
+2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
+ * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
+ Díaz for fixing this bug.
+ * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
+ code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
+ * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
+ for reporting the bug.
+
+2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
+ * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
+ OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
+ for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
+ Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
+ providing an OpenBSD system.
+ * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
+ first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
+ caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
+ J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
+ * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
+ fixed.
+ * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
+ interval.
+ * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
+ Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
+ * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
+ Tomasz Pala for the patch.
+ * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
+ the patch.
+ * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
+ * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
+ to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
+
+2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
+ * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
+ * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
+ * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
+ added.
+ * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
+ name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
+ Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
+ * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
+ sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
+ is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
+ * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
+ primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
+ * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
+ * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
+ is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
+ initialized, the daemon may crash.
+
+2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
+ * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
+ * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
+ * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
+ * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
+ for finding and fixing most of them.
+ * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
+ faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
+
+2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
+ * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
+ user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
+ * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
+ testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
+ * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
+ use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
+ been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
+ * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
+ unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
+ * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
+ expressions.
+ * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
+ * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
+ * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
+ * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
+ expressions.
+ * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
+ * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
+ statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
+ Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
+ * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
+ sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
+ example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
+ Kuhnle for the patch.
+ * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
+ files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
+ to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
+ MacEachern for the patch.
+ * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
+ them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
+ * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
+ relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
+ it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
+ libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
+ * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
+ ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
+ select interfaces, too.
+ * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
+ Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
+ * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
+ for the patch.
+ * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
+ socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
+ * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
+ code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
+ * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
+ OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
+ * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
+ database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
+ similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
+ * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
+ have been added.
+ * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
+ * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
+ * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
+ allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
+ * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
+ updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
+ plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
+ Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
+ been added.
+ * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
+ been added. Portability fixes.
+ * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
+ RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
+ the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
+ features.
+ * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
+ added.
+
+2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
+ * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
+ OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
+ for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
+ Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
+ providing an OpenBSD system.
+ * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
+ * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
+ interval.
+ * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
+ * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
+ Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
+ * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
+ Tomasz Pala for the patch.
+ * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
+ the patch.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
+ is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
+ initialized, the daemon may crash.
+ * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
+
+2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
+ * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
+ not available.
+ * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
+ * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
+ * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
+ patch.
+ * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
+ faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
+ * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
+ code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
+
2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
* build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
* Collecting CPU statistics now
-2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
+2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
* collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
and the like..
* The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
-2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
+2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
* Nothing really useful to say ;)
-2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
+2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
* The following modules are provided:
* Load average
* Ping time
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