influence the way plugins are loaded, e.g.:
<LoadPlugin perl>
- Globals true
Interval 60
</LoadPlugin>
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 following metrics are reported:
-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)>).
+=over 4
+
+=item C<collectd-write_queue/queue_length>
+
+The number of metrics currently in the write queue. You can limit the queue
+length with the B<WriteQueueLimitLow> and B<WriteQueueLimitHigh> options.
+
+=item C<collectd-write_queue/derive-dropped>
+
+The number of metrics dropped due to a queue length limitation.
+If this value is non-zero, your system can't handle all incoming metrics and
+protects itself against overload by dropping metrics.
+
+=item C<collectd-cache/cache_size>
+
+The number of elements in the metric cache (the cache you can interact with
+using L<collectd-unixsock(5)>).
+
+=back
=item B<Include> I<Path> [I<pattern>]
in combination with recursively including a directory to easily be able to
arbitrarily mix configuration files and other documents (e.g. README files).
The given example is similar to the first example above but includes all files
-matching C<*.conf> in any subdirectory of C</etc/collectd.d>:
-
- Include "/etc/collectd.d" "*.conf"
+matching C<*.conf> in any subdirectory of C</etc/collectd.d>.
=back
=head2 Plugin C<amqp>
-The I<AMQMP plugin> can be used to communicate with other instances of
+The I<AMQP plugin> can be used to communicate with other instances of
I<collectd> or third party applications using an AMQP message broker. Values
are sent to or received from the broker, which handles routing, queueing and
possibly filtering or messages.
=head2 Plugin C<curl_json>
The B<curl_json plugin> collects values from JSON data to be parsed by
-B<libyajl> (L<http://www.lloydforge.org/projects/yajl/>) retrieved via
+B<libyajl> (L<https://lloyd.github.io/yajl/>) retrieved via
either B<libcurl> (L<http://curl.haxx.se/>) or read directly from a
unix socket. The former can be used, for example, to collect values
from CouchDB documents (which are stored JSON notation), and the
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<fhcount>
+
+The C<fhcount> plugin provides statistics about used, unused and total number of
+file handles on Linux.
+
+The I<fhcount plugin> provides the following configuration options:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<ValuesAbsolute> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Enables or disables reporting of file handles usage in absolute numbers,
+e.g. file handles used. Defaults to B<true>.
+
+=item B<ValuesPercentage> B<false>|B<true>
+
+Enables or disables reporting of file handles usage in percentages, e.g.
+percent of file handles used. Defaults to B<false>.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<filecount>
The C<filecount> plugin counts the number of files in a certain directory (and
=item B<IgnoreSelected> I<true>|I<false>
-If no configuration if given, the B<traffic>-plugin will collect data from
+If no configuration if given, the B<interface>-plugin will collect data from
all interfaces. This may not be practical, especially for loopback- and
similar interfaces. Thus, you can use the B<Interface>-option to pick the
interfaces you're interested in. Sometimes, however, it's easier/preferred
B<Interface> is inverted: All selected interfaces are ignored and all
other interfaces are collected.
-=back
+It is possible to use regular expressions to match interface names, if the
+name is surrounded by I</.../> and collectd was compiled with support for
+regexps. This is useful if there's a need to collect (or ignore) data
+for a group of interfaces that are similarly named, without the need to
+explicitly list all of them (especially useful if the list is dynamic).
+Example:
+
+ Interface "lo"
+ Interface "/^veth/"
+ Interface "/^tun[0-9]+/"
+ IgnoreSelected "true"
-=head2 Plugin C<ipc>
+This will ignore the loopback interface, all interfaces with names starting
+with I<veth> and all interfaces with names starting with I<tun> followed by
+at least one digit.
-The I<IPC plugin> allows to B<collectd> to gather information about
-process IPC mechanims, like used semaphores, size of shared memory
-segments and others.
+
+=back
=head2 Plugin C<ipmi>
=item B<Chain> I<Table> I<Chain> [I<Comment|Number> [I<Name>]]
-Select the rules to count. If only I<Table> and I<Chain> are given, this plugin
-will collect the counters of all rules which have a comment-match. The comment
-is then used as type-instance.
+=item B<Chain6> I<Table> I<Chain> [I<Comment|Number> [I<Name>]]
+
+Select the iptables/ip6tables filter rules to count packets and bytes from.
+
+If only I<Table> and I<Chain> are given, this plugin will collect the counters
+of all rules which have a comment-match. The comment is then used as
+type-instance.
If I<Comment> or I<Number> is given, only the rule with the matching comment or
the I<n>th rule will be collected. Again, the comment (or the number) will be
=head2 Plugin C<ntpd>
+The C<ntpd> plugin collects per-peer ntpd data such as time offset and time
+dispersion.
+
+For talking to B<ntpd>, it mimics what the B<ntpdc> control program does on
+wire - using B<mode 7> specific requests. This mode is deprecated with
+newer B<ntpd> releases (4.2.7p230 and later). For the C<ntpd> plugin to work
+correctly with them, the ntp daemon must be explicitly configured to
+enable B<mode 7> (which is disabled by default). Refer to the I<ntp.conf(5)>
+manual page for details.
+
+Available configuration options for the C<ntpd> plugin:
+
=over 4
=item B<Host> I<Hostname>
amount of time will be lost, for example, if a single statement within the
transaction fails or if the database server crashes.
+=item B<Instance> I<name>
+
+Specify the plugin instance name that should be used instead of the database
+name (which is the default, if this option has not been specified). This
+allows to query multiple databases of the same name on the same host (e.g.
+when running multiple database server versions in parallel).
+
=item B<Host> I<hostname>
Specify the hostname or IP of the PostgreSQL server to connect to. If the
Use I<Password> to authenticate when connecting to I<Redis>.
-=item B<Timeout> I<Timeout in miliseconds>
+=item B<Timeout> I<Milliseconds>
The B<Timeout> option set the socket timeout for node response. Since the Redis
read function is blocking, you should keep this value as low as possible. Keep
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<turbostat>
+
+The I<Turbostat plugin> reads CPU frequency and C-state residency on modern
+Intel processors by using the new Model Specific Registers.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<CoreCstates> I<Bitmask(Integer)>
+
+Bitmask of the list of core C states supported by the processor.
+This option should only be used if the automated detection fails.
+Default value extracted from the cpu model and family.
+
+Currently supported C-states (by this plugin): 3, 6, 7
+
+Example: (1<<3)+(1<<6)+(1<<7) = 392 for all states
+
+=item B<PackageCstates> I<Bitmask(Integer)>
+
+Bitmask of the list of pacages C states supported by the processor.
+This option should only be used if the automated detection fails.
+Default value extracted from the cpu model and family.
+
+Currently supported C-states (by this plugin): 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
+
+Example: (1<<2)+(1<<3)+(1<<6)+(1<<7) = 396 for states 2, 3, 6 and 7
+
+=item B<SystemManagementInterrupt> I<true>|I<false>
+
+Boolean enabling the collection of the I/O System-Management Interrupt
+counter'. This option should only be used if the automated detection
+fails or if you want to disable this feature.
+
+=item B<DigitalTemperatureSensor> I<true>|I<false>
+
+Boolean enabling the collection of the temperature of each core.
+This option should only be used if the automated detectionfails or
+if you want to disable this feature.
+
+=item B<DigitalTemperatureSensor> I<true>|I<false>
+
+Boolean enabling the collection of the temperature of each package.
+This option should only be used if the automated detectionfails or
+if you want to disable this feature.
+
+=item B<TCCActivationTemp> I<Temperature>
+
+Thermal Control Circuit Activation Temperature of the installed
+CPU. This temperature is used when collecting the temperature of
+cores or packages. This option should only be used if the automated
+detection fails. Default value extracted from B<MSR_IA32_TEMPERATURE_TARGET>
+
+=item B<RunningAveragePowerLimit> I<Bitmask(Integer)>
+
+Bitmask of the list of elements to be thermally monitored. This option
+should only be used if the automated detection fails or if you want to
+disable some collections. The different bits of this bitmask accepted
+by this plugin are:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item 0 ('1'): Package
+
+=item 1 ('2'): DRAM
+
+=item 2 ('4'): Cores
+
+=item 3 ('8'): Embedded graphic device
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<unixsock>
=over 4
means to concatenate the guest name and UUID (with a literal colon character
between, thus I<"foo:1234-1234-1234-1234">).
+At the moment of writing (collectd-5.5), hostname string is limited to 62
+characters. In case when combination of fields exceeds 62 characters,
+hostname will be truncated without a warning.
+
=item B<InterfaceFormat> B<name>|B<address>
When the virt plugin logs interface data, it sets the name of the collected
B<uuid> means use the guest's UUID.
+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">).
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<vmem>
Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to C<27017>.
-=item B<Timeout> I<Timeout>
+=item B<Timeout> I<Milliseconds>
Set the timeout for each operation on I<MongoDB> to I<Timeout> milliseconds.
Setting this option to zero means no timeout, which is the default.
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
+C<ZRANGEBYSCORE> I<Redis> command. Additionally, 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
=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
+instance running on a specified host and port. The node name is a
canonical identifier which is used as I<plugin instance>. It is limited to
-64E<nbsp>characters in length.
+51E<nbsp>characters in length.
=item B<Host> I<Hostname>
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>
+=item B<Timeout> I<Milliseconds>
The B<Timeout> option sets the socket connection timeout, in milliseconds.
=item B<AlwaysAppendDS> B<false>|B<true>
-If set the B<true>, append the name of the I<Data Source> (DS) to the
+If set to B<true>, append the name of the I<Data Source> (DS) to the
"service", i.e. the field that, together with the "host" field, uniquely
identifies a metric in I<Riemann>. If set to B<false> (the default), this is
only done when there is more than one DS.
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