2015-05-20, Version 5.5.0
* Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
- * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of
- libstatgrab ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445,
- #795, #806, #807, #908
+ * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
+ ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
+ #807, #908
* Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
* Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
Florian Forster.
- * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done.
- Thanks to Marc Fournier.
- * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon
- and the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster,
- Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
+ * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
+ to Marc Fournier.
+ * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
+ the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
+ Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
* collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
- Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud,
- Pierre-Yves Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc
- Fournier.
- * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter
- Chains. Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
- * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart
- and systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
+ Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
+ Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
+ * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
+ Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
+ * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
+ systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
- * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks
- to Yves Mettier. #691
+ * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
+ Yves Mettier. #691
* collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
"src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
- * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to
- Florian Forster and Marc Fournier.
+ * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster and Marc Fournier.
* Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
* Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
- license: the Apple_Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy,
- GenericJMX, gmond, Java, LogFile, nginx, Notify_Desktop, NTPd, NUT,
- olsrd, Perl, Ping, PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP,
- StatsD, SysLog, Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless,
- Write_Riemann and XMMS plugins, the core collectd daemon, the
- collectdmon, collectd-nagios and collectd-tg utilities, all the
- Targets and Matches, liboconfig, most of the "utils_*" files and the
- plugin API.
+ license: the Apple_Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
+ gmond, Java, LogFile, nginx, Notify_Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl,
+ Ping, PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD,
+ SysLog, Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write_Riemann
+ and XMMS plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon,
+ collectd-nagios and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and
+ Matches, liboconfig, most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
* Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
Fournier. #833
* AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
- been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks
- to David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
- * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write
- HTTP plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
+ been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
+ David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
+ * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
+ plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
* Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
- connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the
- configured "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over
- this behavior. Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983,
- #993
- * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write_HTTP
- plugins: Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built
- against libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
+ connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
+ "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
+ Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
+ * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write_HTTP plugins:
+ Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
+ libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
* Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
Moreno. #946
* Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
#693
- * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting
- degraded batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
+ batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
- * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless
- the battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
+ battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
* Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
- * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as
- well as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
+ * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
+ as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
- * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages
- and aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
+ * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
+ aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
* cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
- * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL
- basis. Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
- * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write_HTTP plugins: These plugins now also
- follow HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
- * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has
- been implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
+ * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
+ Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
+ * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write_HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
+ HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
+ implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
* DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
Mark Wong. #317, #321
* DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
* Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
- in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney.
- #537
+ in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
* Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
Schenck. #705, #759
* fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
* GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
- added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to
- Alexandre Moutot. #452
+ added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
+ Moutot. #452
* IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
- * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration
- file. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
+ * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
+ Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
* Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
* Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
#360
* LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
- * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported.
- Thanks to Matt Cottingham. #622
+ * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
+ to Matt Cottingham. #622
* Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
- * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as
- percentages. Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel
- CISSÉ. #501, #511, #559
+ * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
+ Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
+ #559
* Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
- * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485
- serial port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
+ * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
+ port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
* Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
* MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
Jeremy Katz. #441
* MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
- added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves
- Ritschard. #248, #621, #699, #824
+ added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
+ #248, #621, #699, #824
* MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
* Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
- * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has
- been added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
- * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to
- Marek Becka. #550
- * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor
- families has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
+ * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
+ added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
+ * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
+ Becka. #550
+ * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
+ has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
* OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
* OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
- * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented.
- Thanks to Ed Okerson. #252
- * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the
- plugin report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to
- Chris Lundquist. #264
+ * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
+ to Ed Okerson. #252
+ * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
+ report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
+ Lundquist. #264
* Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
- internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite
- has been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
- * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping
- older values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to
- Stephen O'Dor. #593
+ internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
+ been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
+ * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
+ values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
+ O'Dor. #593
* PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
- * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for
- low-profile systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
- * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath"
- is now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has
- been added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick
- Browne. #890, #751, #771
+ * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
+ systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
+ * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
+ now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
+ added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
+ #890, #751, #771
* Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
- from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva,
- Marc Fournier, Johan Bergström and Michael Spiegle. #296, #464,
- #475, #799
+ from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
+ Fournier, Johan Bergström and Michael Spiegle. #296, #464, #475, #799
* Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
- * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has
- been added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
- * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been
- added. Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
+ * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
+ added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
+ * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
+ Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
* SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
* SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
* Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
"SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
#733
- * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been
- implemented. Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
+ * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
+ Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
* Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
* TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
* TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
- the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
- #546
+ the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
* Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
- residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to
- Vincent Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
- * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added.
- Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
+ residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
+ Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
+ * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
+ to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
* Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
Fournier. #618, #783
* Virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
- * Virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name
- or UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
+ * Virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
+ UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
* Virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
Florian Forster.
* Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
* Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
"<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
- * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have
- been added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
- * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow
- to reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and
- Marc Fournier. #752, #985
+ * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
+ added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
+ * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
+ reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
+ Fournier. #752, #985
* Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
- can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to
- Florian Forster. #722
+ can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster. #722
* Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
- ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853,
- #014
+ ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
* Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
* Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
- * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the
- Riemann server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron.
- #575
+ * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
+ server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
* Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
- * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending
- events to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by
- default. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
- * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been
- added, which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe
- Zada. #706
+ * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
+ to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
+ Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
+ * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
+ which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
* Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
- * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a
- stream processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie
- and Marc Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
- * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a
- scalable time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian
- Forster, Dallin Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
- #703, #772, #945
+ * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
+ processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
+ Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
+ * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
+ time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
+ Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
* ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
- * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache
- Zookeeper "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
+ * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
+ "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
* Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
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