Merge pull request #774 from trenkel/master

[collectd.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 60de1ed..1956609 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -16,18 +16,18 @@ Features
   * collectd is able to collect the following data:
 
     - apache
-      Apache server utilization: Number of bytes transfered, number of
+      Apache server utilization: Number of bytes transferred, number of
       requests handled and detailed scoreboard statistics
 
     - apcups
       APC UPS Daemon: UPS charge, load, input/output/battery voltage, etc.
 
     - apple_sensors
-      Sensors in Macs running Mac OS X / Darwin: Temperature, fanspeed and
+      Sensors in Macs running Mac OS X / Darwin: Temperature, fan speed and
       voltage sensors.
 
     - aquaero
-      Various sensors in the Aquaero 5 watercooling board made by Aquacomputer.
+      Various sensors in the Aquaero 5 water cooling board made by Aquacomputer.
 
     - ascent
       Statistics about Ascent, a free server for the game `World of Warcraft'.
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Features
 
     - dns
       DNS traffic: Query types, response codes, opcodes and traffic/octets
-      transfered.
+      transferred.
 
     - drbd
       Collect individual drbd resource statistics.
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Features
       Receive multicast traffic from Ganglia instances.
 
     - hddtemp
-      Harddisk temperatures using hddtempd.
+      Hard disk temperatures using hddtempd.
 
     - interface
       Interface traffic: Number of octets, packets and errors for each
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Features
       interfaces that use the Atheros chipset and the MadWifi driver.
 
     - mbmon
-      Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information,
+      Motherboard sensors: temperature, fan speed and voltage information,
       using mbmon(1).
 
     - md
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ Features
       See collectd-python(5) for details.
 
     - redis
-      The redis plugin gathers information from a redis server, including:
+      The redis plugin gathers information from a Redis server, including:
       uptime, used memory, total connections etc.
 
     - routeros
@@ -306,13 +306,13 @@ Features
       clients and calculating rates and other aggregates out of these values.
 
     - swap
-      Pages swapped out onto harddisk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS..
+      Pages swapped out onto hard disk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS..
 
     - table
       Parse table-like structured files.
 
     - tail
-      Follows (tails) logfiles, parses them by lines and submits matched
+      Follows (tails) log files, parses them by lines and submits matched
       values.
 
     - tail_csv
@@ -411,6 +411,10 @@ Features
       can be configured to avoid logging send errors (especially useful when
       using UDP).
 
+    - write_tsdb
+      Sends data OpenTSDB, a scalable no master, no shared state time series
+      database.
+
     - write_http
       Sends the values collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST
       requests. The transmitted data is either in a form understood by the
@@ -519,7 +523,7 @@ Features
       values are out of bounds. See collectd-threshold(5) for details.
 
     - uuid
-      Sets the hostname to an unique identifier. This is meant for setups
+      Sets the hostname to a unique identifier. This is meant for setups
       where each client may migrate to another physical host, possibly going
       through one or more name changes in the process.
 
@@ -527,7 +531,7 @@ Features
     time starting up again and again. With the exception of the exec plugin no
     processes are forked. Caching in output plugins, such as the rrdtool and
     network plugins, makes sure your resources are used efficiently. Also,
-    since collectd is programmed multithreaded it benefits from hyperthreading
+    since collectd is programmed multithreaded it benefits from hyper-threading
     and multicore processors and makes sure that the daemon isn't idle if only
     one plugin waits for an IO-operation to complete.
 
@@ -539,7 +543,7 @@ Operation
 ---------
 
   * collectd's configuration file can be found at `sysconfdir'/collectd.conf.
-    Run `collectd -h' for a list of builtin defaults. See `collectd.conf(5)'
+    Run `collectd -h' for a list of built-in defaults. See `collectd.conf(5)'
     for a list of options and a syntax description.
 
   * When the `csv' or `rrdtool' plugins are loaded they'll write the values to