Merge pull request #1743 from rubenk/apcups-coverity

[collectd.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index f2371cb..80efa62 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ Features
     - gmond
       Receive multicast traffic from Ganglia instances.
 
+    - grpc
+      Receive values over the network using the gRPC framework.
+
     - hddtemp
       Hard disk temperatures using hddtempd.
 
@@ -676,6 +679,11 @@ Prerequisites
     Used by the `gmond' plugin to process data received from Ganglia.
     <http://ganglia.info/>
 
+  * libgrpc (optional)
+    Used by the `grpc' plugin. gRPC requires a C++ compiler supporting the
+    C++11 standard.
+    <https://grpc.io/>
+
   * libgcrypt (optional)
     Used by the `network' plugin for encryption and authentication.
     <http://www.gnupg.org/>
@@ -765,10 +773,14 @@ Prerequisites
     The PostgreSQL C client library used by the `postgresql' plugin.
     <http://www.postgresql.org/>
 
+  * libprotobuf, protoc 3.0+ (optional)
+    Used by the `grpc' plugin to generate service stubs and code to handle
+    network packets of collectd's protobuf-based network protocol.
+    <https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/>
+
   * libprotobuf-c, protoc-c (optional)
     Used by the `pinba' plugin to generate a parser for the network packets
-    sent by the Pinba PHP extension, and by the `write_riemann' plugin to
-    generate events to be sent to a Riemann server.
+    sent by the Pinba PHP extension.
     <http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/>
 
   * libpython (optional)
@@ -843,6 +855,10 @@ Prerequisites
      `varnish' plugin.
      <http://varnish-cache.org>
 
+  * riemann-c-client (optional)
+     For the `write_riemann' plugin.
+     <https://github.com/algernon/riemann-c-client>
+
 Configuring / Compiling / Installing
 ------------------------------------
 
@@ -925,6 +941,7 @@ To generate the `configure` script, you'll need the following dependencies:
 - bison
 - libtool
 - libtool-ltdl
+- pkg-config
 
 The `build.sh' script takes no arguments.