=head1 SYNOPSIS
- BaseDir "/path/to/data/"
- PIDFile "/path/to/pidfile/collectd.pid"
- Server "123.123.123.123" 12345
+ BaseDir "/var/lib/collectd"
+ PIDFile "/run/collectd.pid"
+ Interval 10.0
LoadPlugin cpu
LoadPlugin load
<LoadPlugin df>
Interval 3600
</LoadPlugin>
+ <Plugin df>
+ ValuesPercentage true
+ </Plugin>
LoadPlugin ping
<Plugin ping>
This config file controls how the system statistics collection daemon
B<collectd> behaves. The most significant option is B<LoadPlugin>, which
controls which plugins to load. These plugins ultimately define collectd's
-behavior.
+behavior. If the B<AutoLoadPlugin> option has been enabled, the explicit
+B<LoadPlugin> lines may be omitted for all plugins with a configuration block,
+i.e. a C<E<lt>PluginE<nbsp>...E<gt>> block.
The syntax of this config file is similar to the config file of the famous
I<Apache> webserver. Each line contains either an option (a key and a list of
The configuration is read and processed in order, i.e. from top to bottom. So
the plugins are loaded in the order listed in this config file. It is a good
idea to load any logging plugins first in order to catch messages from plugins
-during configuration. Also, the C<LoadPlugin> option B<must> occur B<before>
-the appropriate C<E<lt>Plugin ...E<gt>> block.
+during configuration. Also, unless B<AutoLoadPlugin> is enabled, the
+B<LoadPlugin> option I<must> occur I<before> the appropriate
+C<E<lt>B<Plugin> ...E<gt>> block.
=head1 GLOBAL OPTIONS
B<LoadPlugin> statement. B<LoadPlugin> statements are still required for
plugins that don't provide any configuration, e.g. the I<Load plugin>.
+=item B<CollectInternalStats> B<false>|B<true>
+
+When set to B<true>, various statistics about the I<collectd> daemon will be
+collected, with "collectd" as the I<plugin name>. Defaults to B<false>.
+
+The "write_queue" I<plugin instance> reports the number of elements currently
+queued and the number of elements dropped off the queue by the
+B<WriteQueueLimitLow>/B<WriteQueueLimitHigh> mechanism.
+
+The "cache" I<plugin instance> reports the number of elements in the value list
+cache (the cache you can interact with using L<collectd-unixsock(5)>).
+
=item B<Include> I<Path> [I<pattern>]
If I<Path> points to a file, includes that file. If I<Path> points to a
I<you will have to delete all your RRD files> or know some serious RRDtool
magic! (Assuming you're using the I<RRDtool> or I<RRDCacheD> plugin.)
+=item B<MaxReadInterval> I<Seconds>
+
+Read plugin doubles interval between queries after each failed attempt
+to get data.
+
+This options limits the maximum value of the interval. The default value is
+B<86400>.
+
=item B<Timeout> I<Iterations>
Consider a value list "missing" when no update has been read or received for
unset, the latter will default to half of B<WriteQueueLimitHigh>.
If you do not want to randomly drop values when the queue size is between
-I<LowNum> and I<HighNum>, set If B<WriteQueueLimitHigh> and
-B<WriteQueueLimitLow> to same value.
+I<LowNum> and I<HighNum>, set B<WriteQueueLimitHigh> and B<WriteQueueLimitLow>
+to the same value.
+
+Enabling the B<CollectInternalStats> option is of great help to figure out the
+values to set B<WriteQueueLimitHigh> and B<WriteQueueLimitLow> to.
=item B<Hostname> I<Name>
# ExchangeType "fanout"
# RoutingKey "collectd"
# Persistent false
+ # ConnectionRetryDelay 0
# Format "command"
# StoreRates false
# GraphitePrefix "collectd."
# QueueDurable false
# QueueAutoDelete true
# RoutingKey "collectd.#"
+ # ConnectionRetryDelay 0
</Subscribe>
</Plugin>
default), the I<transient> delivery mode will be used, i.e. messages may be
lost due to high load, overflowing queues or similar issues.
+=item B<ConnectionRetryDelay> I<Delay>
+
+When the connection to the AMQP broker is lost, defines the time in seconds to
+wait before attempting to reconnect. Defaults to 0, which implies collectd will
+attempt to reconnect at each read interval (in Subscribe mode) or each time
+values are ready for submission (in Publish mode).
+
=item B<Format> B<Command>|B<JSON>|B<Graphite> (Publish only)
Selects the format in which messages are sent to the broker. If set to
This plugin reads absolute air pressure using digital barometer sensor MPL115A2
or MPL3115 from Freescale (sensor attached to any I2C bus available in
-the computer, for HW details see
+the computer, for HW details see
I<http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPL115A> or
I<http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPL3115A2>).
The sensor type - one fo these two - is detected automatically by the plugin
When specified more sensors a minumum is found and uses each time.
The temperature reading directly from this pressure sensor/plugin
is typically not suitable as the pressure sensor
-will be probably inside while we want outside temperature.
+will be probably inside while we want outside temperature.
The collectd reference name is something like
<hostname>/<plugin_name>-<plugin_instance>/<type>-<type_instance>
(<type_instance> is usually omitted when there is just single value type).
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<battery>
+
+The I<battery plugin> reports the remaining capacity, power and voltage of
+laptop batteries.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<ValuesPercentage> B<false>|B<true>
+
+When enabled, remaining capacity is reported as a percentage, e.g. "42%
+capacity remaining". Otherwise the capacity is stored as reported by the
+battery, most likely in "Wh". This option does not work with all input methods,
+in particular when only C</proc/pmu> is available on an old Linux system.
+Defaults to B<false>.
+
+=item B<ReportDegraded> B<false>|B<true>
+
+Typical laptop batteries degrade over time, meaning the capacity decreases with
+recharge cycles. The maximum charge of the previous charge cycle is tracked as
+"last full capacity" and used to determine that a battery is "fully charged".
+
+When this option is set to B<false>, the default, the I<battery plugin> will
+only report the remaining capacity. If the B<ValuesPercentage> option is
+enabled, the relative remaining capacity is calculated as the ratio of the
+"remaining capacity" and the "last full capacity". This is what most tools,
+such as the status bar of desktop environments, also do.
+
+When set to B<true>, the battery plugin will report three values: B<charged>
+(remaining capacity), B<discharged> (difference between "last full capacity"
+and "remaining capacity") and B<degraded> (difference between "design capacity"
+and "last full capacity").
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<bind>
Starting with BIND 9.5.0, the most widely used DNS server software provides
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<ceph>
+
+The ceph plugin collects values from JSON data to be parsed by B<libyajl>
+(L<https://lloyd.github.io/yajl/>) retrieved from ceph daemon admin sockets.
+
+A separate B<Daemon> block must be configured for each ceph daemon to be
+monitored. The following example will read daemon statistics from four
+separate ceph daemons running on the same device (two OSDs, one MON, one MDS) :
+
+ <Plugin ceph>
+ LongRunAvgLatency false
+ ConvertSpecialMetricTypes true
+ <Daemon "osd.0">
+ SocketPath "/var/run/ceph/ceph-osd.0.asok"
+ </Daemon>
+ <Daemon "osd.1">
+ SocketPath "/var/run/ceph/ceph-osd.1.asok"
+ </Daemon>
+ <Daemon "mon.a">
+ SocketPath "/var/run/ceph/ceph-mon.ceph1.asok"
+ </Daemon>
+ <Daemon "mds.a">
+ SocketPath "/var/run/ceph/ceph-mds.ceph1.asok"
+ </Daemon>
+ </Plugin>
+
+The ceph plugin accepts the following configuration options:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<LongRunAvgLatency> B<true>|B<false>
+
+If enabled, latency values(sum,count pairs) are calculated as the long run
+average - average since the ceph daemon was started = (sum / count).
+When disabled, latency values are calculated as the average since the last
+collection = (sum_now - sum_last) / (count_now - count_last).
+
+Default: Disabled
+
+=item B<ConvertSpecialMetricTypes> B<true>|B<false>
+
+If enabled, special metrics (metrics that differ in type from similar counters)
+are converted to the type of those similar counters. This currently only
+applies to filestore.journal_wr_bytes which is a counter for OSD daemons. The
+ceph schema reports this metric type as a sum,count pair while similar counters
+are treated as derive types. When converted, the sum is used as the counter
+value and is treated as a derive type.
+When disabled, all metrics are treated as the types received from the ceph schema.
+
+Default: Enabled
+
+=back
+
+Each B<Daemon> block must have a string argument for the plugin instance name.
+A B<SocketPath> is also required for each B<Daemon> block:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Daemon> I<DaemonName>
+
+Name to be used as the instance name for this daemon.
+
+=item B<SocketPath> I<SocketPath>
+
+Specifies the path to the UNIX admin socket of the ceph daemon.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<cgroups>
This plugin collects the CPU user/system time for each I<cgroup> by reading the
=head2 Plugin C<cpu>
-The I<CPU plugin> collects CPU usage metrics.
+The I<CPU plugin> collects CPU usage metrics. By default, CPU usage is reported
+as Jiffies, using the C<cpu> type. Two aggregations are available:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item
+
+Sum, per-state, over all CPUs installed in the system; and
+
+=item
+
+Sum, per-CPU, over all non-idle states of a CPU, creating an "active" state.
+
+=back
+
+The two aggregations can be combined, leading to I<collectd> only emitting a
+single "active" metric for the entire system. As soon as one of these
+aggregations (or both) is enabled, the I<cpu plugin> will report a percentage,
+rather than Jiffies. In addition, you can request individual, per-state,
+per-CPU metrics to be reported as percentage.
The following configuration options are available:
=over 4
-=item B<ReportActive> B<false>|B<true>
+=item B<ReportByState> B<true>|B<false>
-Reports non-idle CPU usage as the "active" value. Defaults to false.
+When set to B<true>, the default, reports per-state metrics, e.g. "system",
+"user" and "idle".
+When set to B<false>, aggregates (sums) all I<non-idle> states into one
+"active" metric.
-=item B<ReportByCpu> B<false>|B<true>
+=item B<ReportByCpu> B<true>|B<false>
-When true reports usage for all cores. When false, reports cpu usage
-aggregated over all cores.
-Defaults to true.
+When set to B<true>, the default, reports per-CPU (per-core) metrics.
+When set to B<false>, instead of reporting metrics for individual CPUs, only a
+global sum of CPU states is emitted.
=item B<ValuesPercentage> B<false>|B<true>
-When true report percentage usage instead of tick values. Defaults to false.
+This option is only considered when both, B<ReportByCpu> and B<ReportByState>
+are set to B<true>. In this case, by default, metrics will be reported as
+Jiffies. By setting this option to B<true>, you can request percentage values
+in the un-aggregated (per-CPU, per-state) mode as well.
=back
-
=head2 Plugin C<cpufreq>
This plugin doesn't have any options. It reads
URL "http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AAMD"
User "foo"
Password "bar"
+ Digest false
+ VerifyPeer true
+ VerifyHost true
+ CACert "/path/to/ca.crt"
+ Header "X-Custom-Header: foobar"
+ Post "foo=bar"
+
+ MeasureResponseTime false
+ MeasureResponseCode false
+
<Match>
Regex "<span +class=\"pr\"[^>]*> *([0-9]*\\.[0-9]+) *</span>"
DSType "GaugeAverage"
Measure response time for the request. If this setting is enabled, B<Match>
blocks (see below) are optional. Disabled by default.
+=item B<MeasureResponseCode> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Measure response code for the request. If this setting is enabled, B<Match>
+blocks (see below) are optional. Disabled by default.
+
=item B<E<lt>MatchE<gt>>
One or more B<Match> blocks that define how to match information in the data
returned by C<libcurl>. The C<curl> plugin uses the same infrastructure that's
used by the C<tail> plugin, so please see the documentation of the C<tail>
-plugin below on how matches are defined. If the B<MeasureResponseTime> option
-is set to B<true>, B<Match> blocks are optional.
+plugin below on how matches are defined. If the B<MeasureResponseTime> or
+B<MeasureResponseCode> options are set to B<true>, B<Match> blocks are
+optional.
=back
VerifyPeer true
VerifyHost true
CACert "/path/to/ca.crt"
+ Header "X-Custom-Header: foobar"
+ Post "foo=bar"
<XPath "table[@id=\"magic_level\"]/tr">
Type "magic_level"
=item B<MetadataFrom> [I<column0> I<column1> ...]
Names the columns whose content is used as metadata for the data sets
-that are dispatched to the daemon.
+that are dispatched to the daemon.
The actual data type in the columns is not that important. The plugin will
automatically cast the values to the right type if it know how to do that. So
=back
-=head2 Plugin C<libvirt>
-
-This plugin allows CPU, disk and network load to be collected for virtualized
-guests on the machine. This means that these characteristics can be collected
-for guest systems without installing any software on them - collectd only runs
-on the hosting system. The statistics are collected through libvirt
-(L<http://libvirt.org/>).
-
-Only I<Connection> is required.
-
-=over 4
-
-=item B<Connection> I<uri>
-
-Connect to the hypervisor given by I<uri>. For example if using Xen use:
-
- Connection "xen:///"
-
-Details which URIs allowed are given at L<http://libvirt.org/uri.html>.
-
-=item B<RefreshInterval> I<seconds>
-
-Refresh the list of domains and devices every I<seconds>. The default is 60
-seconds. Setting this to be the same or smaller than the I<Interval> will cause
-the list of domains and devices to be refreshed on every iteration.
-
-Refreshing the devices in particular is quite a costly operation, so if your
-virtualization setup is static you might consider increasing this. If this
-option is set to 0, refreshing is disabled completely.
-
-=item B<Domain> I<name>
-
-=item B<BlockDevice> I<name:dev>
-
-=item B<InterfaceDevice> I<name:dev>
-
-=item B<IgnoreSelected> I<true>|I<false>
-
-Select which domains and devices are collected.
-
-If I<IgnoreSelected> is not given or I<false> then only the listed domains and
-disk/network devices are collected.
-
-If I<IgnoreSelected> is I<true> then the test is reversed and the listed
-domains and disk/network devices are ignored, while the rest are collected.
-
-The domain name and device names may use a regular expression, if the name is
-surrounded by I</.../> and collectd was compiled with support for regexps.
-
-The default is to collect statistics for all domains and all their devices.
-
-Example:
-
- BlockDevice "/:hdb/"
- IgnoreSelected "true"
-
-Ignore all I<hdb> devices on any domain, but other block devices (eg. I<hda>)
-will be collected.
-
-=item B<HostnameFormat> B<name|uuid|hostname|...>
-
-When the libvirt plugin logs data, it sets the hostname of the collected data
-according to this setting. The default is to use the guest name as provided by
-the hypervisor, which is equal to setting B<name>.
-
-B<uuid> means use the guest's UUID. This is useful if you want to track the
-same guest across migrations.
-
-B<hostname> means to use the global B<Hostname> setting, which is probably not
-useful on its own because all guests will appear to have the same name.
-
-You can also specify combinations of these fields. For example B<name uuid>
-means to concatenate the guest name and UUID (with a literal colon character
-between, thus I<"foo:1234-1234-1234-1234">).
-
-=item B<InterfaceFormat> B<name>|B<address>
-
-When the libvirt plugin logs interface data, it sets the name of the collected
-data according to this setting. The default is to use the path as provided by
-the hypervisor (the "dev" property of the target node), which is equal to
-setting B<name>.
-
-B<address> means use the interface's mac address. This is useful since the
-interface path might change between reboots of a guest or across migrations.
-
-=item B<PluginInstanceFormat> B<name|uuid>
-
-When the libvirt plugin logs data, it sets the plugin_instance of the collected
-data according to this setting. The default is to use the guest name as provided
-by the hypervisor, which is equal to setting B<name>.
-
-B<uuid> means use the guest's UUID.
-
-=back
-
=head2 Plugin C<load>
The I<Load plugin> collects the system load. These numbers give a rough overview
=head2 Plugin C<modbus>
-The B<modbus plugin> connects to a Modbus "slave" via Modbus/TCP and reads
-register values. It supports reading single registers (unsigned 16E<nbsp>bit
+The B<modbus plugin> connects to a Modbus "slave" via Modbus/TCP or Modbus/RTU and
+reads register values. It supports reading single registers (unsigned 16E<nbsp>bit
values), large integer values (unsigned 32E<nbsp>bit values) and floating point
values (two registers interpreted as IEEE floats in big endian notation).
<Data "voltage-input-1">
RegisterBase 0
RegisterType float
+ RegisterCmd ReadHolding
Type voltage
Instance "input-1"
</Data>
<Data "voltage-input-2">
RegisterBase 2
RegisterType float
+ RegisterCmd ReadHolding
Type voltage
Instance "input-2"
</Data>
+ <Data "supply-temperature-1">
+ RegisterBase 0
+ RegisterType Int16
+ RegisterCmd ReadHolding
+ Type temperature
+ Instance "temp-1"
+ </Data>
+
<Host "modbus.example.com">
Address "192.168.0.42"
Port "502"
</Slave>
</Host>
+ <Host "localhost">
+ Device "/dev/ttyUSB0"
+ Baudrate 38400
+ Interval 20
+
+ <Slave 1>
+ Instance "temperature"
+ Collect "supply-temperature-1"
+ </Slave>
+ </Host>
+
=over 4
=item E<lt>B<Data> I<Name>E<gt> blocks
B<Uint32> or B<Float>, two 16E<nbsp>bit registers will be read and the data is
combined into one value. Defaults to B<Uint16>.
+=item B<RegisterCmd> B<ReadHolding>|B<ReadInput>
+
+Specifies register type to be collected from device. Works only with libmodbus
+2.9.2 or higher. Defaults to B<ReadHolding>.
+
=item B<Type> I<Type>
Specifies the "type" (data set) to use when dispatching the value to
=item B<Address> I<Hostname>
-Specifies the node name (the actual network address) used to connect to the
-host. This may be an IP address or a hostname. Please note that the used
-I<libmodbus> library only supports IPv4 at the moment.
+For Modbus/TCP, specifies the node name (the actual network address) used to
+connect to the host. This may be an IP address or a hostname. Please note that
+the used I<libmodbus> library only supports IPv4 at the moment.
=item B<Port> I<Service>
-Specifies the port used to connect to the host. The port can either be given as
-a number or as a service name. Please note that the I<Service> argument must be
-a string, even if ports are given in their numerical form. Defaults to "502".
+for Modbus/TCP, specifies the port used to connect to the host. The port can
+either be given as a number or as a service name. Please note that the
+I<Service> argument must be a string, even if ports are given in their numerical
+form. Defaults to "502".
+
+=item B<Device> I<Devicenode>
+
+For Modbus/RTU, specifies the path to the serial device being used.
+
+=item B<Baudrate> I<Baudrate>
+
+For Modbus/RTU, specifies the baud rate of the serial device.
+Note, connections currently support only 8/N/1.
=item B<Interval> I<Interval>
=item E<lt>B<Slave> I<ID>E<gt>
-Over each TCP connection, multiple Modbus devices may be reached. The slave ID
+Over each connection, multiple Modbus devices may be reached. The slave ID
is used to specify which device should be addressed. For each device you want
to query, one B<Slave> block must be given.
Enable the collection of master / slave statistics in a replication setup. In
order to be able to get access to these statistics, the user needs special
-privileges. See the B<User> documentation above.
+privileges. See the B<User> documentation above. Defaults to B<false>.
=item B<SlaveNotifications> I<true|false>
If enabled, the plugin sends a notification if the replication slave I/O and /
-or SQL threads are not running.
+or SQL threads are not running. Defaults to B<false>.
=item B<ConnectTimeout> I<Seconds>
that the manual selection of an interface for unicast traffic is only
necessary in rare cases.
+=item B<ResolveInterval> I<Seconds>
+
+Sets the interval at which to re-resolve the DNS for the I<Host>. This is
+useful to force a regular DNS lookup to support a high availability setup. If
+not specified, re-resolves are never attempted.
+
=back
=item B<E<lt>Listen> I<Host> [I<Port>]B<E<gt>>
Specify the password to be used when connecting to the server.
+=item B<ExpireDelay> I<delay>
+
+Skip expired values in query output.
+
=item B<SSLMode> I<disable>|I<allow>|I<prefer>|I<require>
Specify whether to use an SSL connection when contacting the server. The
Host "localhost"
Port "6379"
Timeout 2000
+ <Query "LLEN myqueue">
+ Type "queue_length"
+ Instance "myqueue"
+ <Query>
</Node>
</Plugin>
in mind that the sum of all B<Timeout> values for all B<Nodes> should be lower
than B<Interval> defined globally.
+=item B<Query> I<Querystring>
+
+The B<Query> block identifies a query to execute against the redis server.
+There may be an arbitrary number of queries to execute.
+
+=item B<Type> I<Collectd type>
+
+Within a query definition, a valid collectd type to use as when submitting
+the result of the query. When not supplied, will default to B<gauge>.
+
+=item B<Instance> I<Type instance>
+
+Within a query definition, an optional type instance to use when submitting
+the result of the query. When not supplied will default to the escaped
+command, up to 64 chars.
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<rrdcached>
I<Factor> must be in the range C<[0.0-1.0)>, i.e. between zero (inclusive) and
one (exclusive).
+=item B<CollectStatistics> B<false>|B<true>
+
+When set to B<true>, various statistics about the I<rrdcached> daemon will be
+collected, with "rrdcached" as the I<plugin name>. Defaults to B<false>.
+
+Statistics are read via I<rrdcached>s socket using the STATS command.
+See L<rrdcached(1)> for details.
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<rrdtool>
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<smart>
+
+The C<smart> plugin collects SMART information from physical
+disks. Values collectd include temperature, power cycle count, poweron
+time and bad sectors. Also, all SMART attributes are collected along
+with the normalized current value, the worst value, the threshold and
+a human readable value.
+
+Using the following two options you can ignore some disks or configure the
+collection only of specific disks.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Disk> I<Name>
+
+Select the disk I<Name>. Whether it is collected or ignored depends on the
+B<IgnoreSelected> setting, see below. As with other plugins that use the
+daemon's ignorelist functionality, a string that starts and ends with a slash
+is interpreted as a regular expression. Examples:
+
+ Disk "sdd"
+ Disk "/hda[34]/"
+
+=item B<IgnoreSelected> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Sets whether selected disks, i.E<nbsp>e. the ones matches by any of the B<Disk>
+statements, are ignored or if all other disks are ignored. The behavior
+(hopefully) is intuitive: If no B<Disk> option is configured, all disks are
+collected. If at least one B<Disk> option is given and no B<IgnoreSelected> or
+set to B<false>, B<only> matching disks will be collected. If B<IgnoreSelected>
+is set to B<true>, all disks are collected B<except> the ones matched.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<snmp>
Since the configuration of the C<snmp plugin> is a little more complicated than
computed latency. This is useful for cutting off the long tail latency, as it's
often done in I<Service Level Agreements> (SLAs).
-If not specified, no percentile is calculated / dispatched.
+Different percentiles can be calculated by setting this option several times.
+If none are specified, no percentiles are calculated / dispatched.
+
+=item B<TimerLower> B<false>|B<true>
+
+=item B<TimerUpper> B<false>|B<true>
+
+=item B<TimerSum> B<false>|B<true>
+
+=item B<TimerCount> B<false>|B<true>
+
+Calculate and dispatch various values out of I<Timer> metrics received during
+an interval. If set to B<False>, the default, these values aren't calculated /
+dispatched.
=back
The matched number is a counter. Simply I<sets> the internal counter to this
value. Variants exist for C<COUNTER>, C<DERIVE>, and C<ABSOLUTE> data sources.
+=item B<GaugeAdd>
+
=item B<CounterAdd>
=item B<DeriveAdd>
matched number may be negative, which will effectively subtract from the
internal counter.
+=item B<GaugeInc>
+
=item B<CounterInc>
=item B<DeriveInc>
how many connections a web proxy holds to web servers. You have to give the
port in numeric form.
+=item B<AllPortsSummary> I<true>|I<false>
+
+If this option is set to I<true> a summary of statistics from all connections
+are collectd. This option defaults to I<false>.
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<thermal>
=head2 Plugin C<varnish>
The I<varnish plugin> collects information about Varnish, an HTTP accelerator.
+It collects a subset of the values displayed by L<varnishstat(1)>, and
+organizes them in categories which can be enabled or disabled. Currently only
+metrics shown in L<varnishstat(1)>'s I<MAIN> section are collected. The exact
+meaning of each metric can be found in L<varnish-counters(7)>.
Synopsis:
<Plugin "varnish">
<Instance "example">
+ CollectBackend true
+ CollectBan false
CollectCache true
CollectConnections true
- CollectBackend true
- CollectSHM true
+ CollectDirectorDNS false
CollectESI false
CollectFetch false
CollectHCB false
+ CollectObjects false
+ CollectPurge false
+ CollectSession false
+ CollectSHM true
CollectSMA false
CollectSMS false
CollectSM false
+ CollectStruct false
CollectTotals false
+ CollectUptime false
+ CollectVCL false
+ CollectVSM false
CollectWorkers false
</Instance>
</Plugin>
=over 4
-=item B<CollectCache> B<true>|B<false>
-
-Cache hits and misses. True by default.
-
-=item B<CollectConnections> B<true>|B<false>
-
-Number of client connections received, accepted and dropped. True by default.
-
=item B<CollectBackend> B<true>|B<false>
Back-end connection statistics, such as successful, reused,
and closed connections. True by default.
-=item B<CollectSHM> B<true>|B<false>
-
-Statistics about the shared memory log, a memory region to store
-log messages which is flushed to disk when full. True by default.
-
=item B<CollectBan> B<true>|B<false>
Statistics about ban operations, such as number of bans added, retired, and
number of objects tested against ban operations. Only available with Varnish
-3.x. False by default.
+3.x and above. False by default.
+
+=item B<CollectCache> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Cache hits and misses. True by default.
+
+=item B<CollectConnections> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Number of client connections received, accepted and dropped. True by default.
=item B<CollectDirectorDNS> B<true>|B<false>
=item B<CollectSession> B<true>|B<false>
Client session statistics. Number of past and current sessions, session herd and
-linger counters, etc. False by default.
+linger counters, etc. False by default. Note that if using Varnish 4.x, some
+metrics found in the Connections and Threads sections with previous versions of
+Varnish have been moved here.
+
+=item B<CollectSHM> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Statistics about the shared memory log, a memory region to store
+log messages which is flushed to disk when full. True by default.
=item B<CollectSMA> B<true>|B<false>
=item B<CollectUptime> B<true>|B<false>
-Varnish uptime. False by default.
+Varnish uptime. Only available with Varnish 3.x and above. False by default.
=item B<CollectVCL> B<true>|B<false>
Number of total (available + discarded) VCL (config files). False by default.
+=item B<CollectVSM> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Collect statistics about Varnish's shared memory usage (used by the logging and
+statistics subsystems). Only available with Varnish 4.x. False by default.
+
=item B<CollectWorkers> B<true>|B<false>
Collect statistics about worker threads. False by default.
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<virt>
+
+This plugin allows CPU, disk and network load to be collected for virtualized
+guests on the machine. This means that these metrics can be collected for guest
+systems without installing any software on them - I<collectd> only runs on the
+host system. The statistics are collected through libvirt
+(L<http://libvirt.org/>).
+
+Only I<Connection> is required.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Connection> I<uri>
+
+Connect to the hypervisor given by I<uri>. For example if using Xen use:
+
+ Connection "xen:///"
+
+Details which URIs allowed are given at L<http://libvirt.org/uri.html>.
+
+=item B<RefreshInterval> I<seconds>
+
+Refresh the list of domains and devices every I<seconds>. The default is 60
+seconds. Setting this to be the same or smaller than the I<Interval> will cause
+the list of domains and devices to be refreshed on every iteration.
+
+Refreshing the devices in particular is quite a costly operation, so if your
+virtualization setup is static you might consider increasing this. If this
+option is set to 0, refreshing is disabled completely.
+
+=item B<Domain> I<name>
+
+=item B<BlockDevice> I<name:dev>
+
+=item B<InterfaceDevice> I<name:dev>
+
+=item B<IgnoreSelected> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Select which domains and devices are collected.
+
+If I<IgnoreSelected> is not given or B<false> then only the listed domains and
+disk/network devices are collected.
+
+If I<IgnoreSelected> is B<true> then the test is reversed and the listed
+domains and disk/network devices are ignored, while the rest are collected.
+
+The domain name and device names may use a regular expression, if the name is
+surrounded by I</.../> and collectd was compiled with support for regexps.
+
+The default is to collect statistics for all domains and all their devices.
+
+Example:
+
+ BlockDevice "/:hdb/"
+ IgnoreSelected "true"
+
+Ignore all I<hdb> devices on any domain, but other block devices (eg. I<hda>)
+will be collected.
+
+=item B<HostnameFormat> B<name|uuid|hostname|...>
+
+When the virt plugin logs data, it sets the hostname of the collected data
+according to this setting. The default is to use the guest name as provided by
+the hypervisor, which is equal to setting B<name>.
+
+B<uuid> means use the guest's UUID. This is useful if you want to track the
+same guest across migrations.
+
+B<hostname> means to use the global B<Hostname> setting, which is probably not
+useful on its own because all guests will appear to have the same name.
+
+You can also specify combinations of these fields. For example B<name uuid>
+means to concatenate the guest name and UUID (with a literal colon character
+between, thus I<"foo:1234-1234-1234-1234">).
+
+=item B<InterfaceFormat> B<name>|B<address>
+
+When the virt plugin logs interface data, it sets the name of the collected
+data according to this setting. The default is to use the path as provided by
+the hypervisor (the "dev" property of the target node), which is equal to
+setting B<name>.
+
+B<address> means use the interface's mac address. This is useful since the
+interface path might change between reboots of a guest or across migrations.
+
+=item B<PluginInstanceFormat> B<name|uuid>
+
+When the virt plugin logs data, it sets the plugin_instance of the collected
+data according to this setting. The default is to use the guest name as provided
+by the hypervisor, which is equal to setting B<name>.
+
+B<uuid> means use the guest's UUID.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<vmem>
The C<vmem> plugin collects information about the usage of virtual memory.
=head2 Plugin C<write_http>
-This output plugin submits values to an http server by POST them using the
-PUTVAL plain-text protocol. Each destination you want to post data to needs to
-have one B<URL> block, within which the destination can be configured further,
-for example by specifying authentication data.
+This output plugin submits values to an HTTP server using POST requests and
+encoding metrics with JSON or using the C<PUTVAL> command described in
+L<collectd-unixsock(5)>.
Synopsis:
<Plugin "write_http">
- <URL "http://example.com/post-collectd">
+ <Node "example">
+ URL "http://example.com/post-collectd"
User "collectd"
Password "weCh3ik0"
- </URL>
+ Format JSON
+ </Node>
</Plugin>
-B<URL> blocks need one string argument which is used as the URL to which data
-is posted. The following options are understood within B<URL> blocks.
+The plugin can send values to multiple HTTP servers by specifying one
+E<lt>B<Node>E<nbsp>I<Name>E<gt> block for each server. Within each B<Node>
+block, the following options are available:
=over 4
+=item B<URL> I<URL>
+
+URL to which the values are submitted to. Mandatory.
+
=item B<User> I<Username>
Optional user name needed for authentication.
=item B<StoreRates> B<true|false>
If set to B<true>, convert counter values to rates. If set to B<false> (the
-default) counter values are stored as is, i.E<nbsp>e. as an increasing integer
-number.
+default) counter values are stored as is, i.e. as an increasing integer number.
+
+=item B<BufferSize> I<Bytes>
+
+Sets the send buffer size to I<Bytes>. By increasing this buffer, less HTTP
+requests will be generated, but more metrics will be batched / metrics are
+cached for longer before being sent, introducing additional delay until they
+are available on the server side. I<Bytes> must be at least 1024 and cannot
+exceed the size of an C<int>, i.e. 2E<nbsp>GByte.
+Defaults to C<4096>.
+
+=item B<LowSpeedLimit> B<true|false>
+
+If set to B<true>, average transfer speed in bytes per second will be checked.
+In case it is below B<LowLimitBytesPerSec> connection will be considered slow
+and aborted.
+
+=item B<LowLimitBytesPerSec> I<Bytes>
+
+Sets bytes per second value for B<LowSpeedLimit> to make a decission if
+connection is too slow. Default value is C<100>.
+
+=item B<PostTimeoutSec> I<Seconds>
+
+If defined, provided positive integer value will be used to set maximum time
+in seconds that you allow for transfer(http post) operation to take.
=back
an easy and straight forward exchange format.
If set to B<Graphite>, values are encoded in the I<Graphite> format, which is
-"<metric> <value> <timestamp>\n".
+C<E<lt>metricE<gt> E<lt>valueE<gt> E<lt>timestampE<gt>\n>.
=item B<StoreRates> B<true>|B<false>
=item B<GraphitePrefix> (B<Format>=I<Graphite> only)
-A prefix can be added in the metric name when outputting in the I<Graphite> format.
-It's added before the I<Host> name.
-Metric name will be "<prefix><host><postfix><plugin><type><name>"
+A prefix can be added in the metric name when outputting in the I<Graphite>
+format. It's added before the I<Host> name.
+Metric name will be
+C<E<lt>prefixE<gt>E<lt>hostE<gt>E<lt>postfixE<gt>E<lt>pluginE<gt>E<lt>typeE<gt>E<lt>nameE<gt>>
=item B<GraphitePostfix> (B<Format>=I<Graphite> only)
-A postfix can be added in the metric name when outputting in the I<Graphite> format.
-It's added after the I<Host> name.
-Metric name will be "<prefix><host><postfix><plugin><type><name>"
+A postfix can be added in the metric name when outputting in the I<Graphite>
+format. It's added after the I<Host> name.
+Metric name will be
+C<E<lt>prefixE<gt>E<lt>hostE<gt>E<lt>postfixE<gt>E<lt>pluginE<gt>E<lt>typeE<gt>E<lt>nameE<gt>>
=item B<GraphiteEscapeChar> (B<Format>=I<Graphite> only)
Specify a character to replace dots (.) in the host part of the metric name.
In I<Graphite> metric name, dots are used as separators between different
metric parts (host, plugin, type).
-Default is "_" (I<Underscore>).
+Default is C<_> (I<Underscore>).
=item B<GraphiteSeparateInstances> B<false>|B<true>
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<write_redis>
+
+The I<write_redis plugin> submits values to I<Redis>, a data structure server.
+
+Synopsis:
+
+ <Plugin "write_redis">
+ <Node "example">
+ Host "localhost"
+ Port "6379"
+ Timeout 1000
+ </Node>
+ </Plugin>
+
+Values are submitted to I<Sorted Sets>, using the metric name as the key, and
+the timestamp as the score. Retrieving a date range can then be done using the
+C<ZRANGEBYSCORE> I<Redis> command. Additionnally, all the identifiers of these
+I<Sorted Sets> are kept in a I<Set> called C<collectd/values> and can be
+retrieved using the C<SMEMBERS> I<Redis> command. See
+L<http://redis.io/commands#sorted_set> and L<http://redis.io/commands#set> for
+details.
+
+The information shown in the synopsis above is the I<default configuration>
+which is used by the plugin if no configuration is present.
+
+The plugin can send values to multiple instances of I<Redis> by specifying
+one B<Node> block for each instance. Within the B<Node> blocks, the following
+options are available:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Node> I<Nodename>
+
+The B<Node> block identifies a new I<Redis> node, that is a new I<Redis>
+instance running in an specified host and port. The name for node is a
+canonical identifier which is used as I<plugin instance>. It is limited to
+64E<nbsp>characters in length.
+
+=item B<Host> I<Hostname>
+
+The B<Host> option is the hostname or IP-address where the I<Redis> instance is
+running on.
+
+=item B<Port> I<Port>
+
+The B<Port> option is the TCP port on which the Redis instance accepts
+connections. Either a service name of a port number may be given. Please note
+that numerical port numbers must be given as a string, too.
+
+=item B<Timeout> I<Timeout in miliseconds>
+
+The B<Timeout> option sets the socket connection timeout, in milliseconds.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<write_riemann>
The I<write_riemann plugin> will send values to I<Riemann>, a powerful stream
=item B<Protocol> B<UDP>|B<TCP>
Specify the protocol to use when communicating with I<Riemann>. Defaults to
-B<UDP>.
+B<TCP>.
+
+=item B<Batch> B<true>|B<false>
+
+If set to B<true> and B<Protocol> is set to B<TCP>,
+events will be batched in memory and flushed at
+regular intervals or when B<BatchMaxSize> is exceeded.
+
+Notifications are not batched and sent as soon as possible.
+
+When enabled, it can occur that events get processed by the Riemann server
+close to or after their expiration time. Tune the B<TTLFactor> and
+B<BatchMaxSize> settings according to the amount of values collected, if this
+is an issue.
+
+Defaults to true
+
+=item B<BatchMaxSize> I<size>
+
+Maximum payload size for a riemann packet. Defaults to 8192
=item B<StoreRates> B<true>|B<false>
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<zookeeper>
+
+The I<zookeeper plugin> will collect statistics from a I<Zookeeper> server
+using the mntr command. It requires Zookeeper 3.4.0+ and access to the
+client port.
+
+B<Synopsis:>
+
+ <Plugin "zookeeper">
+ Host "127.0.0.1"
+ Port "2181"
+ </Plugin>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Host> I<Address>
+
+Hostname or address to connect to. Defaults to C<localhost>.
+
+=item B<Port> I<Service>
+
+Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to C<2181>.
+
+=back
+
=head1 THRESHOLD CONFIGURATION
Starting with version C<4.3.0> collectd has support for B<monitoring>. By that
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