processes: Fix ps_get_cmdline() on Solaris.

[collectd.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 95e7d62..c3c4547 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ Features
     - entropy
       Amount of entropy available to the system.
 
+    - ethstat
+      Network interface card statistics.
+
     - exec
       Values gathered by a custom program or script.
       See collectd-exec(5).
@@ -125,8 +128,12 @@ Features
     - load
       System load average over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
 
+    - lpar
+      Detailed CPU statistics of the “Logical Partitions” virtualization
+      technique built into IBM's POWER processors.
+
     - libvirt
-      CPU, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
+      CPU, memory, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
 
     - madwifi
       Queries very detailed usage statistics from wireless LAN adapters and
@@ -136,6 +143,10 @@ Features
       Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information,
       using mbmon(1).
 
+    - md
+      Linux software-RAID device information (number of active, failed, spare
+      and missing disks).
+
     - memcachec
       Query and parse data from a memcache daemon (memcached).
 
@@ -188,6 +199,9 @@ Features
       Network UPS tools: UPS current, voltage, power, charge, utilisation,
       temperature, etc. See upsd(8).
 
+    - numa
+      Information about Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA).
+
     - olsrd
       Queries routing information from the “Optimized Link State Routing”
       daemon.
@@ -208,6 +222,9 @@ Features
       write your own plugins in Perl and return arbitrary values using this
       API. See collectd-perl(5).
 
+    - pf
+      Query statistics from BSD's packet filter "pf".
+
     - pinba
       Receive and dispatch timing values from Pinba, a profiling extension for
       PHP.
@@ -235,6 +252,10 @@ Features
       collectd without the need to start a heavy interpreter every interval.
       See collectd-python(5) for details.
 
+    - redis
+      The redis plugin gathers information from a redis server, including:
+      uptime, used memory, total connections etc.
+
     - routeros
       Query interface and wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
 
@@ -263,6 +284,10 @@ Features
       Follows (tails) logfiles, parses them by lines and submits matched
       values.
 
+    - tail_csv
+      Follows (tails) files in CSV format, parses each line and submits
+      extracted values.
+
     - tape
       Bytes and operations read and written on tape devices. Solaris only.
 
@@ -288,6 +313,9 @@ Features
     - users
       Users currently logged in.
 
+    - varnish
+      Various statistics from Varnish, an HTTP accelerator.
+
     - vmem
       Virtual memory statistics, e. g. the number of page-ins/-outs or the
       number of pagefaults.
@@ -308,6 +336,10 @@ Features
   * Output can be written or sent to various destinations by the following
     plugins:
 
+    - amqp
+      Sends JSON-encoded data to an Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
+      server, such as RabbitMQ.
+
     - csv
       Write to comma separated values (CSV) files. This needs lots of
       diskspace but is extremely portable and can be analysed with almost
@@ -343,11 +375,23 @@ Features
       needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's
       done.
 
+    - write_graphite
+      Sends data to Carbon, the storage layer of Graphite.
+
     - 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
       Exec plugin or formatted in JSON.
 
+    - write_mongodb
+      Sends data to MongoDB, a NoSQL database.
+
+    - write_redis
+      Sends the values to a Redis key-value database server.
+
+    - write_riemann
+      Sends data to Riemann, a stream processing and monitoring system.
+
   * Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
     plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
 
@@ -427,6 +471,14 @@ Features
 
   * Miscellaneous plugins:
 
+    - aggregation
+      Selects multiple value lists based on patterns or regular expressions
+      and creates new aggregated values lists from those.
+
+    - threshold
+      Checks values against configured thresholds and creates notifications if
+      values are out of bounds. See collectd-threshold(5) for details.
+
     - uuid
       Sets the hostname to an unique identifier. This is meant for setups
       where each client may migrate to another physical host, possibly going
@@ -504,6 +556,10 @@ Prerequisites
   * libclntsh (optional)
     Used by the `oracle' plugin.
 
+  * libcredis (optional)
+    Used by the redis plugin. Please note that you require a 0.2.2 version
+    or higher. <http://code.google.com/p/credis/>
+
   * libcurl (optional)
     If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `curl', `nginx', or `write_http'
     plugin.
@@ -606,9 +662,14 @@ Prerequisites
     <http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/>
 
   * libpython (optional)
-    Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, only 2.3 ≦ Python < 3 is supported.
+    Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, Python 2.3 and later and Python 3
+    are supported.
     <http://www.python.org/>
 
+  * librabbitmq (optional; also called “rabbitmq-c”)
+    Used by the AMQP plugin for AMQP connections, for example to RabbitMQ.
+    <http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-c/>
+
   * librouteros (optional)
     Used by the `routeros' plugin to connect to a device running `RouterOS'.
     <http://verplant.org/librouteros/>
@@ -655,6 +716,10 @@ Prerequisites
     Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `curl_json' plugin.
     <http://github.com/lloyd/yajl>
 
+  * libvarnish (optional)
+     Fetches statistics from a Varnish instance. This is needed for the Varnish plugin
+     <http://varnish-cache.org>
+
 Configuring / Compiling / Installing
 ------------------------------------