+=encoding UTF-8
+
=head1 NAME
collectd.conf - Configuration for the system statistics collection daemon B<collectd>
BaseDir "/path/to/data/"
PIDFile "/path/to/pidfile/collectd.pid"
Server "123.123.123.123" 12345
-
+
LoadPlugin cpu
LoadPlugin load
-
+
<LoadPlugin df>
Interval 3600
</LoadPlugin>
-
+
LoadPlugin ping
<Plugin ping>
Host "example.org"
=item B<LoadPlugin> I<Plugin>
-Loads the plugin I<Plugin>. There must be at least one such line or B<collectd>
-will be mostly useless.
+Loads the plugin I<Plugin>. This is required to load plugins, unless the
+B<AutoLoadPlugin> option is enabled (see below). Without any loaded plugins,
+I<collectd> will be mostly useless.
-Starting with collectd 4.9, this may also be a block in which further options
-affecting the behavior of B<LoadPlugin> may be specified. The following
-options are allowed inside a B<LoadPlugin> block:
+Only the first B<LoadPlugin> statement or block for a given plugin name has any
+effect. This is useful when you want to split up the configuration into smaller
+files and want each file to be "self contained", i.e. it contains a B<Plugin>
+block I<and> then appropriate B<LoadPlugin> statement. The downside is that if
+you have multiple conflicting B<LoadPlugin> blocks, e.g. when they specify
+different intervals, only one of them (the first one encountered) will take
+effect and all others will be silently ignored.
- <LoadPlugin perl>
- Globals true
- Interval 10
- </LoadPlugin>
+B<LoadPlugin> may either be a simple configuration I<statement> or a I<block>
+with additional options, affecting the behavior of B<LoadPlugin>. A simple
+statement looks like this:
+
+ LoadPlugin "cpu"
+
+Options inside a B<LoadPlugin> block can override default settings and
+influence the way plugins are loaded, e.g.:
+
+ <LoadPlugin perl>
+ Globals true
+ Interval 60
+ </LoadPlugin>
+
+The following options are valid inside B<LoadPlugin> blocks:
=over 4
=back
+=item B<AutoLoadPlugin> B<false>|B<true>
+
+When set to B<false> (the default), each plugin needs to be loaded explicitly,
+using the B<LoadPlugin> statement documented above. If a
+B<E<lt>PluginE<nbsp>...E<gt>> block is encountered and no configuration
+handling callback for this plugin has been registered, a warning is logged and
+the block is ignored.
+
+When set to B<true>, explicit B<LoadPlugin> statements are not required. Each
+B<E<lt>PluginE<nbsp>...E<gt>> block acts as if it was immediately preceded by a
+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<Include> I<Path> [I<pattern>]
If I<Path> points to a file, includes that file. If I<Path> points to a
Include "/etc/collectd.d/*.conf"
+Starting with version 5.3, this may also be a block in which further options
+affecting the behavior of B<Include> may be specified. The following option is
+currently allowed:
+
+ <Include "/etc/collectd.d">
+ Filter "*.conf"
+ </Include>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Filter> I<pattern>
+
If the C<fnmatch> function is available on your system, a shell-like wildcard
I<pattern> may be specified to filter which files to include. This may be used
in combination with recursively including a directory to easily be able to
arbitrarily mix configuration files and other documents (e.g. README files).
-The following statement is similar to the example above but includes all 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"
+=back
+
If more than one files are included by a single B<Include> option, the files
will be included in lexicographical order (as defined by the C<strcmp>
function). Thus, you can e.E<nbsp>g. use numbered prefixes to specify the
default value is B<5>, but you may want to increase this if you have more than
five plugins that may take relatively long to write to.
+=item B<WriteQueueLimitHigh> I<HighNum>
+
+=item B<WriteQueueLimitLow> I<LowNum>
+
+Metrics are read by the I<read threads> and then put into a queue to be handled
+by the I<write threads>. If one of the I<write plugins> is slow (e.g. network
+timeouts, I/O saturation of the disk) this queue will grow. In order to avoid
+running into memory issues in such a case, you can limit the size of this
+queue.
+
+By default, there is no limit and memory may grow indefinitely. This is most
+likely not an issue for clients, i.e. instances that only handle the local
+metrics. For servers it is recommended to set this to a non-zero value, though.
+
+You can set the limits using B<WriteQueueLimitHigh> and B<WriteQueueLimitLow>.
+Each of them takes a numerical argument which is the number of metrics in the
+queue. If there are I<HighNum> metrics in the queue, any new metrics I<will> be
+dropped. If there are less than I<LowNum> metrics in the queue, all new metrics
+I<will> be enqueued. If the number of metrics currently in the queue is between
+I<LowNum> and I<HighNum>, the metric is dropped with a probability that is
+proportional to the number of metrics in the queue (i.e. it increases linearly
+until it reaches 100%.)
+
+If B<WriteQueueLimitHigh> is set to non-zero and B<WriteQueueLimitLow> is
+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.
+
=item B<Hostname> I<Name>
Sets the hostname that identifies a host. If you omit this setting, the
<Aggregation>
Plugin "cpu"
Type "cpu"
-
+
GroupBy "Host"
GroupBy "TypeInstance"
-
+
CalculateSum true
CalculateAverage true
</Aggregation>
Plugin "cpu"
PluginInstance "/[0,2,4,6,8]$/"
Type "cpu"
-
+
SetPlugin "cpu"
SetPluginInstance "even-%{aggregation}"
-
+
GroupBy "Host"
GroupBy "TypeInstance"
-
+
CalculateAverage true
</Aggregation>
</Plugin>
# GraphitePrefix "collectd."
# GraphiteEscapeChar "_"
</Publish>
-
+
# Receive values from an AMQP broker
<Subscribe "some_name">
Host "localhost"
Exchange "amq.fanout"
# ExchangeType "fanout"
# Queue "queue_name"
+ # QueueDurable false
+ # QueueAutoDelete true
# RoutingKey "collectd.#"
</Subscribe>
</Plugin>
=item B<Queue> I<Queue> (Subscribe only)
-Configures the I<queue> name to subscribe to. If no queue name was configures
+Configures the I<queue> name to subscribe to. If no queue name was configured
explicitly, a unique queue name will be created by the broker.
+=item B<QueueDurable> B<true>|B<false> (Subscribe only)
+
+Defines if the I<queue> subscribed to is durable (saved to persistent storage)
+or transient (will disappear if the AMQP broker is restarted). Defaults to
+"false".
+
+This option should be used in conjunction with the I<Persistent> option on the
+publish side.
+
+=item B<QueueAutoDelete> B<true>|B<false> (Subscribe only)
+
+Defines if the I<queue> subscribed to will be deleted once the last consumer
+unsubscribes. Defaults to "true".
+
=item B<RoutingKey> I<Key>
In I<Publish> blocks, this configures the routing key to set on all outgoing
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<aquaero>
+
+This plugin collects the value of the available sensors in an
+I<AquaeroE<nbsp>5> board. AquaeroE<nbsp>5 is a water-cooling controller board,
+manufactured by Aqua Computer GmbH L<http://www.aquacomputer.de/>, with a USB2
+connection for monitoring and configuration. The board can handle multiple
+temperature sensors, fans, water pumps and water level sensors and adjust the
+output settings such as fan voltage or power used by the water pump based on
+the available inputs using a configurable controller included in the board.
+This plugin collects all the available inputs as well as some of the output
+values chosen by this controller. The plugin is based on the I<libaquaero5>
+library provided by I<aquatools-ng>.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Device> I<DevicePath>
+
+Device path of the AquaeroE<nbsp>5's USB HID (human interface device), usually
+in the form C</dev/usb/hiddevX>. If this option is no set the plugin will try
+to auto-detect the Aquaero 5 USB device based on vendor-ID and product-ID.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<ascent>
This plugin collects information about an Ascent server, a free server for the
ParseTime false
OpCodes true
QTypes true
-
+
ServerStats true
ZoneMaintStats true
ResolverStats false
MemoryStats true
-
+
<View "_default">
QTypes true
ResolverStats true
CacheRRSets true
-
+
Zone "127.in-addr.arpa/IN"
</View>
</Plugin>
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<cgroups>
+
+This plugin collects the CPU user/system time for each I<cgroup> by reading the
+F<cpuacct.stat> files in the first cpuacct-mountpoint (typically
+F</sys/fs/cgroup/cpu.cpuacct> on machines using systemd).
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<CGroup> I<Directory>
+
+Select I<cgroup> based on the name. Whether only matching I<cgroups> are
+collected or if they are ignored is controlled by the B<IgnoreSelected> option;
+see below.
+
+=item B<IgnoreSelected> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Invert the selection: If set to true, all cgroups I<except> the ones that
+match any one of the criteria are collected. By default only selected
+cgroups are collected if a selection is made. If no selection is configured
+at all, B<all> cgroups are selected.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Plugin C<conntrack>
+
+This plugin collects IP conntrack statistics.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<OldFiles>
+
+Assume the B<conntrack_count> and B<conntrack_max> files to be found in
+F</proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter> instead of F</proc/sys/net/netfilter/>.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Plugin C<cpu>
+
+The I<CPU plugin> collects CPU usage metrics.
+
+The following configuration options are available:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<ReportActive> B<false>|B<true>
+
+Reports non-idle CPU usage as the "active" value. Defaults to false.
+
+=item B<ReportByCpu> B<false>|B<true>
+
+When true reports usage for all cores. When false, reports cpu usage
+aggregated over all cores.
+Defaults to true.
+
+=item B<ValuesPercentage> B<false>|B<true>
+
+When true report percentage usage instead of tick values. Defaults to false.
+
+=back
+
+
=head2 Plugin C<cpufreq>
This plugin doesn't have any options. It reads
Password to use if authorization is required to read the page.
+=item B<Digest> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Enable HTTP digest authentication.
+
=item B<VerifyPeer> B<true>|B<false>
Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
=head2 Plugin C<curl_json>
-The B<curl_json plugin> uses B<libcurl> (L<http://curl.haxx.se/>) and
-B<libyajl> (L<http://www.lloydforge.org/projects/yajl/>) to retrieve JSON data
-via cURL. This can be used to collect values from CouchDB documents (which are
-stored JSON notation), for example.
+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
+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
+latter to collect values from a uWSGI stats socket.
-The following example will collect several values from the built-in `_stats'
-runtime statistics module of CouchDB
+The following example will collect several values from the built-in
+C<_stats> runtime statistics module of I<CouchDB>
(L<http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Runtime_Statistics>).
<Plugin curl_json>
</URL>
</Plugin>
-In the B<Plugin> block, there may be one or more B<URL> blocks, each defining
-a URL to be fetched via HTTP (using libcurl) and one or more B<Key> blocks.
-The B<Key> string argument must be in a path format, which is used to collect a
-value from a JSON map object. If a path element of B<Key> is the
-I<*>E<nbsp>wildcard, the values for all keys will be collectd.
+This example will collect data directly from a I<uWSGI> "Stats Server" socket.
+
+ <Plugin curl_json>
+ <Sock "/var/run/uwsgi.stats.sock">
+ Instance "uwsgi"
+ <Key "workers/*/requests">
+ Type "http_requests"
+ </Key>
+
+ <Key "workers/*/apps/*/requests">
+ Type "http_requests"
+ </Key>
+ </Sock>
+ </Plugin>
+
+In the B<Plugin> block, there may be one or more B<URL> blocks, each
+defining a URL to be fetched via HTTP (using libcurl) or B<Sock>
+blocks defining a unix socket to read JSON from directly. Each of
+these blocks may have one or more B<Key> blocks.
+
+The B<Key> string argument must be in a path format. Each component is
+used to match the key from a JSON map or the index of an JSON
+array. If a path component of a B<Key> is a I<*>E<nbsp>wildcard, the
+values for all map keys or array indices will be collectd.
The following options are valid within B<URL> blocks:
Sets the plugin instance to I<Instance>.
=item B<User> I<Name>
+
=item B<Password> I<Password>
+
+=item B<Digest> B<true>|B<false>
+
=item B<VerifyPeer> B<true>|B<false>
+
=item B<VerifyHost> B<true>|B<false>
+
=item B<CACert> I<file>
+
=item B<Header> I<Header>
+
=item B<Post> I<Body>
These options behave exactly equivalent to the appropriate options of the
=item B<Password> I<Password>
+=item B<Digest> B<true>|B<false>
+
=item B<VerifyPeer> B<true>|B<false>
=item B<VerifyHost> B<true>|B<false>
There must be at least one B<ValuesFrom> option inside each B<Result> block.
+=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.
+
+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
+it should be able to handle integer an floating point types, as well as strings
+(if they include a number at the beginning).
+
=back
=head3 B<Database> blocks
many small files are stored on the disk. This is a usual scenario for mail
transfer agents and web caches.
+=item B<ValuesAbsolute> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Enables or disables reporting of free and used disk space in 1K-blocks.
+Defaults to B<true>.
+
+=item B<ValuesPercentage> B<false>|B<true>
+
+Enables or disables reporting of free and used disk space in percentage.
+Defaults to B<false>.
+
+This is useful for deploying I<collectd> on the cloud, where machines with
+different disk size may exist. Then it is more practical to configure
+thresholds based on relative disk size.
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<disk>
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.
+=item B<UseBSDName> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Whether to use the device's "BSD Name", on MacE<nbsp>OSE<nbsp>X, instead of the
+default major/minor numbers. Requires collectd to be built with Apple's
+IOKitLib support.
+
+=item B<UdevNameAttr> I<Attribute>
+
+Attempt to override disk instance name with the value of a specified udev
+attribute when built with B<libudev>. If the attribute is not defined for the
+given device, the default name is used. Example:
+
+ UdevNameAttr "DM_NAME"
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<dns>
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
+over the utilization of a machine. The system load is defined as the number of
+runnable tasks in the run-queue and is provided by many operating systems as a
+one, five or fifteen minute average.
+
+The following configuration options are available:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<ReportRelative> B<false>|B<true>
+
+When enabled, system load divided by number of available CPU cores is reported
+for intervals 1 min, 5 min and 15 min. Defaults to false.
+
=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<logfile>
=over 4
log file (e.E<nbsp>g. when rotating the logs). The plugin reopens the file
for each line it writes.
+=head2 Plugin C<log_logstash>
+
+The I<log logstash plugin> behaves like the logfile plugin but formats
+messages as JSON events for logstash to parse and input.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<LogLevel> B<debug|info|notice|warning|err>
+
+Sets the log-level. If, for example, set to B<notice>, then all events with
+severity B<notice>, B<warning>, or B<err> will be written to the logfile.
+
+Please note that B<debug> is only available if collectd has been compiled with
+debugging support.
+
+=item B<File> I<File>
+
+Sets the file to write log messages to. The special strings B<stdout> and
+B<stderr> can be used to write to the standard output and standard error
+channels, respectively. This, of course, only makes much sense when I<collectd>
+is running in foreground- or non-daemon-mode.
+
+=back
+
+B<Note>: There is no need to notify the daemon after moving or removing the
+log file (e.E<nbsp>g. when rotating the logs). The plugin reopens the file
+for each line it writes.
+
=head2 Plugin C<lpar>
The I<LPAR plugin> reads CPU statistics of I<Logical Partitions>, a
=head2 Plugin C<memcached>
-The C<memcached plugin> connects to a memcached server and queries statistics
+The B<memcached plugin> connects to a memcached server and queries statistics
about cache utilization, memory and bandwidth used.
L<http://www.danga.com/memcached/>
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<mic>
+
+The B<mic plugin> gathers CPU statistics, memory usage and temperatures from
+Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) systems.
+
+B<Synopsis:>
+
+ <Plugin mic>
+ ShowCPU true
+ ShowCPUCores true
+ ShowMemory true
+
+ ShowTemperatures true
+ Temperature vddg
+ Temperature vddq
+ IgnoreSelectedTemperature true
+
+ ShowPower true
+ Power total0
+ Power total1
+ IgnoreSelectedPower true
+ </Plugin>
+
+The following options are valid inside the B<PluginE<nbsp>mic> block:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<ShowCPU> B<true>|B<false>
+
+If enabled (the default) a sum of the CPU usage across all cores is reported.
+
+=item B<ShowCPUCores> B<true>|B<false>
+
+If enabled (the default) per-core CPU usage is reported.
+
+=item B<ShowMemory> B<true>|B<false>
+
+If enabled (the default) the physical memory usage of the MIC system is
+reported.
+
+=item B<ShowTemperatures> B<true>|B<false>
+
+If enabled (the default) various temperatures of the MIC system are reported.
+
+=item B<Temperature> I<Name>
+
+This option controls which temperatures are being reported. Whether matching
+temperatures are being ignored or I<only> matching temperatures are reported
+depends on the B<IgnoreSelectedTemperature> setting below. By default I<all>
+temperatures are reported.
+
+=item B<IgnoreSelectedTemperature> B<false>|B<true>
+
+Controls the behavior of the B<Temperature> setting above. If set to B<false>
+(the default) only temperatures matching a B<Temperature> option are reported
+or, if no B<Temperature> option is specified, all temperatures are reported. If
+set to B<true>, matching temperatures are I<ignored> and all other temperatures
+are reported.
+
+Known temperature names are:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item die
+
+Die of the CPU
+
+=item devmem
+
+Device Memory
+
+=item fin
+
+Fan In
+
+=item fout
+
+Fan Out
+
+=item vccp
+
+Voltage ccp
+
+=item vddg
+
+Voltage ddg
+
+=item vddq
+
+Voltage ddq
+
+=back
+
+=item B<ShowPower> B<true>|B<false>
+
+If enabled (the default) various temperatures of the MIC system are reported.
+
+=item B<Power> I<Name>
+
+This option controls which power readings are being reported. Whether matching
+power readings are being ignored or I<only> matching power readings are reported
+depends on the B<IgnoreSelectedPower> setting below. By default I<all>
+power readings are reported.
+
+=item B<IgnoreSelectedPower> B<false>|B<true>
+
+Controls the behavior of the B<Power> setting above. If set to B<false>
+(the default) only power readings matching a B<Power> option are reported
+or, if no B<Power> option is specified, all power readings are reported. If
+set to B<true>, matching power readings are I<ignored> and all other power readings
+are reported.
+
+Known power names are:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item total0
+
+Total power utilization averaged over Time Window 0 (uWatts).
+
+=item total1
+
+Total power utilization averaged over Time Window 0 (uWatts).
+
+=item inst
+
+Instantaneous power (uWatts).
+
+=item imax
+
+Max instantaneous power (uWatts).
+
+=item pcie
+
+PCI-E connector power (uWatts).
+
+=item c2x3
+
+2x3 connector power (uWatts).
+
+=item c2x4
+
+2x4 connector power (uWatts).
+
+=item vccp
+
+Core rail (uVolts).
+
+=item vddg
+
+Uncore rail (uVolts).
+
+=item vddq
+
+Memory subsystem rail (uVolts).
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Plugin C<memory>
+
+The I<memory plugin> provides the following configuration options:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<ValuesAbsolute> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Enables or disables reporting of physical memory usage in absolute numbers,
+i.e. bytes. Defaults to B<true>.
+
+=item B<ValuesPercentage> B<false>|B<true>
+
+Enables or disables reporting of physical memory usage in percentages, e.g.
+percent of physical memory used. Defaults to B<false>.
+
+This is useful for deploying I<collectd> in a heterogeneous environment in
+which the sizes of physical memory vary.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<modbus>
The B<modbus plugin> connects to a Modbus "slave" via Modbus/TCP and reads
values), large integer values (unsigned 32E<nbsp>bit values) and floating point
values (two registers interpreted as IEEE floats in big endian notation).
-Synopsis:
+B<Synopsis:>
<Data "voltage-input-1">
RegisterBase 0
Type voltage
Instance "input-1"
</Data>
-
+
<Data "voltage-input-2">
RegisterBase 2
RegisterType float
Type voltage
Instance "input-2"
</Data>
-
+
<Host "modbus.example.com">
Address "192.168.0.42"
Port "502"
Interval 60
-
+
<Slave 1>
Instance "power-supply"
Collect "voltage-input-1"
Password "password"
Port "3306"
MasterStats true
+ ConnectTimeout 10
</Database>
<Database bar>
+ Alias "squeeze"
Host "localhost"
Socket "/var/run/mysql/mysqld.sock"
SlaveStats true
=over 4
+ =item B<Alias> I<Alias>
+
+ Alias to use as sender instead of hostname when reporting. This may be useful
+ when having cryptic hostnames.
+
=item B<Host> I<Hostname>
Hostname of the database server. Defaults to B<localhost>.
If enabled, the plugin sends a notification if the replication slave I/O and /
or SQL threads are not running.
+ =item B<ConnectTimeout> I<Seconds>
+
+ Sets the connect timeout for the MySQL client.
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<netapp>
User "username"
Password "aef4Aebe"
Interval 30
-
+
<WAFL>
Interval 30
GetNameCache true
GetBufferCache true
GetInodeCache true
</WAFL>
-
+
<Disks>
Interval 30
GetBusy true
</Disks>
-
+
<VolumePerf>
Interval 30
GetIO "volume0"
GetLatency "volume0"
IgnoreSelectedLatency false
</VolumePerf>
-
+
<VolumeUsage>
Interval 30
GetCapacity "vol0"
GetSnapshot "vol3"
IgnoreSelectedSnapshot false
</VolumeUsage>
-
+
<Quota>
Interval 60
</Quota>
-
+
<Snapvault>
Interval 30
</Snapvault>
-
+
<System>
Interval 30
GetCPULoad true
# Export to an internal server
# (demonstrates usage without additional options)
Server "collectd.internal.tld"
-
+
# Export to an external server
# (demonstrates usage with signature options)
<Server "collectd.external.tld">
The C<onewire> plugin uses the B<owcapi> library from the B<owfs> project
L<http://owfs.org/> to read sensors connected via the onewire bus.
-Currently only temperature sensors (sensors with the family code C<10>,
-e.E<nbsp>g. DS1820, DS18S20, DS1920) can be read. If you have other sensors you
-would like to have included, please send a sort request to the mailing list.
+It can be used in two possible modes - standard or advanced.
+
+In the standard mode only temperature sensors (sensors with the family code
+C<10>, C<22> and C<28> - e.g. DS1820, DS18S20, DS1920) can be read. If you have
+other sensors you would like to have included, please send a sort request to
+the mailing list. You can select sensors to be read or to be ignored depending
+on the option B<IgnoreSelected>). When no list is provided the whole bus is
+walked and all sensors are read.
Hubs (the DS2409 chips) are working, but read the note, why this plugin is
experimental, below.
+In the advanced mode you can configure any sensor to be read (only numerical
+value) using full OWFS path (e.g. "/uncached/10.F10FCA000800/temperature").
+In this mode you have to list all the sensors. Neither default bus walk nor
+B<IgnoreSelected> are used here. Address and type (file) is extracted from
+the path automatically and should produce compatible structure with the "standard"
+mode (basically the path is expected as for example
+"/uncached/10.F10FCA000800/temperature" where it would extract address part
+"F10FCA000800" and the rest after the slash is considered the type - here
+"temperature").
+There are two advantages to this mode - you can access virtually any sensor
+(not just temperature), select whether to use cached or directly read values
+and it is slighlty faster. The downside is more complex configuration.
+
+The two modes are distinguished automatically by the format of the address.
+It is not possible to mix the two modes. Once a full path is detected in any
+B<Sensor> then the whole addressing (all sensors) is considered to be this way
+(and as standard addresses will fail parsing they will be ignored).
+
=over 4
=item B<Device> I<Device>
=item B<Sensor> I<Sensor>
-Selects sensors to collect or to ignore, depending on B<IgnoreSelected>, see
-below. Sensors are specified without the family byte at the beginning, to you'd
-use C<F10FCA000800>, and B<not> include the leading C<10.> family byte and
-point.
+In the standard mode selects sensors to collect or to ignore
+(depending on B<IgnoreSelected>, see below). Sensors are specified without
+the family byte at the beginning, so you have to use for example C<F10FCA000800>,
+and B<not> include the leading C<10.> family byte and point.
+When no B<Sensor> is configured the whole Onewire bus is walked and all supported
+sensors (see above) are read.
+
+In the advanced mode the B<Sensor> specifies full OWFS path - e.g.
+C</uncached/10.F10FCA000800/temperature> (or when cached values are OK
+C</10.F10FCA000800/temperature>). B<IgnoreSelected> is not used.
+
+As there can be multiple devices on the bus you can list multiple sensor (use
+multiple B<Sensor> elements).
=item B<IgnoreSelected> I<true>|I<false>
-If no configuration if given, the B<onewire> plugin will collect data from all
+If no configuration is given, the B<onewire> plugin will collect data from all
sensors found. This may not be practical, especially if sensors are added and
removed regularly. Sometimes, however, it's easier/preferred to collect only
specific sensors or all sensors I<except> a few specified ones. This option
B<Sensor> is inverted: All selected interfaces are ignored and all other
interfaces are collected.
+Used only in the standard mode - see above.
+
=item B<Interval> I<Seconds>
Sets the interval in which all sensors should be read. If not specified, the
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<sigrok>
+
+The I<sigrok plugin> uses I<libsigrok> to retrieve measurements from any device
+supported by the L<sigrok|http://sigrok.org/> project.
+
+B<Synopsis>
+
+ <Plugin sigrok>
+ LogLevel 3
+ <Device "AC Voltage">
+ Driver "fluke-dmm"
+ MinimumInterval 10
+ Conn "/dev/ttyUSB2"
+ </Device>
+ <Device "Sound Level">
+ Driver "cem-dt-885x"
+ Conn "/dev/ttyUSB1"
+ </Device>
+ </Plugin>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<LogLevel> B<0-5>
+
+The I<sigrok> logging level to pass on to the I<collectd> log, as a number
+between B<0> and B<5> (inclusive). These levels correspond to C<None>,
+C<Errors>, C<Warnings>, C<Informational>, C<Debug >and C<Spew>, respectively.
+The default is B<2> (C<Warnings>). The I<sigrok> log messages, regardless of
+their level, are always submitted to I<collectd> at its INFO log level.
+
+=item E<lt>B<Device> I<Name>E<gt>
+
+A sigrok-supported device, uniquely identified by this section's options. The
+I<Name> is passed to I<collectd> as the I<plugin instance>.
+
+=item B<Driver> I<DriverName>
+
+The sigrok driver to use for this device.
+
+=item B<Conn> I<ConnectionSpec>
+
+If the device cannot be auto-discovered, or more than one might be discovered
+by the driver, I<ConnectionSpec> specifies the connection string to the device.
+It can be of the form of a device path (e.g.E<nbsp>C</dev/ttyUSB2>), or, in
+case of a non-serial USB-connected device, the USB I<VendorID>B<.>I<ProductID>
+separated by a period (e.g.E<nbsp>C<0403.6001>). A USB device can also be
+specified as I<Bus>B<.>I<Address> (e.g.E<nbsp>C<1.41>).
+
+=item B<SerialComm> I<SerialSpec>
+
+For serial devices with non-standard port settings, this option can be used
+to specify them in a form understood by I<sigrok>, e.g.E<nbsp>C<9600/8n1>.
+This should not be necessary; drivers know how to communicate with devices they
+support.
+
+=item B<MinimumInterval> I<Seconds>
+
+Specifies the minimum time between measurement dispatches to I<collectd>, in
+seconds. Since some I<sigrok> supported devices can acquire measurements many
+times per second, it may be necessary to throttle these. For example, the
+I<RRD plugin> cannot process writes more than once per second.
+
+The default B<MinimumInterval> is B<0>, meaning measurements received from the
+device are always dispatched to I<collectd>. When throttled, unused
+measurements are discarded.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<snmp>
Since the configuration of the C<snmp plugin> is a little more complicated than
other plugins, its documentation has been moved to an own manpage,
L<collectd-snmp(5)>. Please see there for details.
+=head2 Plugin C<statsd>
+
+The I<statsd plugin> listens to a UDP socket, reads "events" in the statsd
+protocol and dispatches rates or other aggregates of these numbers
+periodically.
+
+The plugin implements the I<Counter>, I<Timer>, I<Gauge> and I<Set> types which
+are dispatched as the I<collectd> types C<derive>, C<latency>, C<gauge> and
+C<objects> respectively.
+
+The following configuration options are valid:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Host> I<Host>
+
+Bind to the hostname / address I<Host>. By default, the plugin will bind to the
+"any" address, i.e. accept packets sent to any of the hosts addresses.
+
+=item B<Port> I<Port>
+
+UDP port to listen to. This can be either a service name or a port number.
+Defaults to C<8125>.
+
+=item B<DeleteCounters> B<false>|B<true>
+
+=item B<DeleteTimers> B<false>|B<true>
+
+=item B<DeleteGauges> B<false>|B<true>
+
+=item B<DeleteSets> B<false>|B<true>
+
+These options control what happens if metrics are not updated in an interval.
+If set to B<False>, the default, metrics are dispatched unchanged, i.e. the
+rate of counters and size of sets will be zero, timers report C<NaN> and gauges
+are unchanged. If set to B<True>, the such metrics are not dispatched and
+removed from the internal cache.
+
+=item B<TimerPercentile> I<Percent>
+
+Calculate and dispatch the configured percentile, i.e. compute the latency, so
+that I<Percent> of all reported timers are smaller than or equal to the
+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.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<swap>
The I<Swap plugin> collects information about used and available swap space. On
When enabled, the I<swap I/O> is reported in bytes. When disabled, the default,
I<swap I/O> is reported in pages. This option is available under Linux only.
+=item B<ValuesAbsolute> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Enables or disables reporting of absolute swap metrics, i.e. number of I<bytes>
+available and used. Defaults to B<true>.
+
+=item B<ValuesPercentage> B<false>|B<true>
+
+Enables or disables reporting of relative swap metrics, i.e. I<percent>
+available and free. Defaults to B<false>.
+
+This is useful for deploying I<collectd> in a heterogeneous environment, where
+swap sizes differ and you want to specify generic thresholds or similar.
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<syslog>
<Plugin "tail">
<File "/var/log/exim4/mainlog">
Instance "exim"
+ Interval 60
<Match>
Regex "S=([1-9][0-9]*)"
DSType "CounterAdd"
next B<Instance> option. This way you can extract several plugin instances from
one logfile, handy when parsing syslog and the like.
+The B<Interval> option allows you to define the length of time between reads. If
+this is not set, the default Interval will be used.
+
Each B<Match> block has the following options to describe how the match should
be performed:
=head2 Plugin C<varnish>
-The Varnish plugin collects information about Varnish, an HTTP accelerator.
+The I<varnish plugin> collects information about Varnish, an HTTP accelerator.
+
+Synopsis:
+
+ <Plugin "varnish">
+ <Instance "example">
+ CollectCache true
+ CollectConnections true
+ CollectBackend true
+ CollectSHM true
+ CollectESI false
+ CollectFetch false
+ CollectHCB false
+ CollectSMA false
+ CollectSMS false
+ CollectSM false
+ CollectTotals false
+ CollectWorkers false
+ </Instance>
+ </Plugin>
+
+The configuration consists of one or more E<lt>B<Instance>E<nbsp>I<Name>E<gt>
+blocks. I<Name> is the parameter passed to "varnishd -n". If left empty, it
+will collectd statistics from the default "varnishd" instance (this should work
+fine in most cases).
+
+Inside each E<lt>B<Instance>E<gt> blocks, the following options are recognized:
=over 4
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.
+
+=item B<CollectDirectorDNS> B<true>|B<false>
+
+DNS director lookup cache statistics. Only available with Varnish 3.x. False by
+default.
+
=item B<CollectESI> B<true>|B<false>
Edge Side Includes (ESI) parse statistics. False by default.
Inserts and look-ups in the crit bit tree based hash. Look-ups are
divided into locked and unlocked look-ups. False by default.
+=item B<CollectObjects> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Statistics on cached objects: number of objects expired, nuked (prematurely
+expired), saved, moved, etc. False by default.
+
+=item B<CollectPurge> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Statistics about purge operations, such as number of purges added, retired, and
+number of objects tested against purge operations. Only available with Varnish
+2.x. False by default.
+
+=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.
+
=item B<CollectSMA> B<true>|B<false>
-malloc or umem (umem_alloc(3MALLOC) based) storage statistics.
-The umem storage component is Solaris specific. False by default.
+malloc or umem (umem_alloc(3MALLOC) based) storage statistics. The umem storage
+component is Solaris specific. Only available with Varnish 2.x. False by
+default.
=item B<CollectSMS> B<true>|B<false>
=item B<CollectSM> B<true>|B<false>
-file (memory mapped file) storage statistics. False by default.
+file (memory mapped file) storage statistics. Only available with Varnish 2.x.
+False by default.
+
+=item B<CollectStruct> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Current varnish internal state statistics. Number of current sessions, objects
+in cache store, open connections to backends (with Varnish 2.x), etc. False by
+default.
=item B<CollectTotals> B<true>|B<false>
Collects overview counters, such as the number of sessions created,
the number of requests and bytes transferred. False by default.
+=item B<CollectUptime> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Varnish uptime. False by default.
+
+=item B<CollectVCL> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Number of total (available + discarded) VCL (config files). False by default.
+
=item B<CollectWorkers> B<true>|B<false>
Collect statistics about worker threads. False by default.
The C<write_graphite> plugin writes data to I<Graphite>, an open-source metrics
storage and graphing project. The plugin connects to I<Carbon>, the data layer
-of I<Graphite>, and sends data via the "line based" protocol (per default using
-portE<nbsp>2003). The data will be sent in blocks of at most 1428 bytes to
-minimize the number of network packets.
+of I<Graphite>, via I<TCP> or I<UDP> and sends data via the "line based"
+protocol (per default using portE<nbsp>2003). The data will be sent in blocks
+of at most 1428 bytes to minimize the number of network packets.
Synopsis:
<Node "example">
Host "localhost"
Port "2003"
+ Protocol "tcp"
+ LogSendErrors true
Prefix "collectd"
</Node>
</Plugin>
Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to C<2003>.
+=item B<Protocol> I<String>
+
+Protocol to use when connecting to I<Graphite>. Defaults to C<tcp>.
+
+=item B<LogSendErrors> B<false>|B<true>
+
+If set to B<true> (the default), logs errors when sending data to I<Graphite>.
+If set to B<false>, it will not log the errors. This is especially useful when
+using Protocol UDP since many times we want to use the "fire-and-forget"
+approach and logging errors fills syslog with unneeded messages.
+
=item B<Prefix> I<String>
When set, I<String> is added in front of the host name. Dots and whitespace are
possibly need this option. What CA certificates come bundled with C<libcurl>
and are checked by default depends on the distribution you use.
+=item B<CAPath> I<Directory>
+
+Directory holding one or more CA certificate files. You can use this if for
+some reason all the needed CA certificates aren't in the same file and can't be
+pointed to using the B<CACert> option. Requires C<libcurl> to be built against
+OpenSSL.
+
+=item B<ClientKey> I<File>
+
+File that holds the private key in PEM format to be used for certificate-based
+authentication.
+
+=item B<ClientCert> I<File>
+
+File that holds the SSL certificate to be used for certificate-based
+authentication.
+
+=item B<ClientKeyPass> I<Password>
+
+Password required to load the private key in B<ClientKey>.
+
+=item B<SSLVersion> B<SSLv2>|B<SSLv3>|B<TLSv1>|B<TLSv1_0>|B<TLSv1_1>|B<TLSv1_2>
+
+Define which SSL protocol version must be used. By default C<libcurl> will
+attempt to figure out the remote SSL protocol version. See
+L<curl_easy_setopt(3)> for more details.
+
=item B<Format> B<Command>|B<JSON>
Format of the output to generate. If set to B<Command>, will create output that
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<write_kafka>
+
+The I<write_kafka plugin> will send values to a I<Kafka> topic, a distributed
+queue.
+Synopsis:
+
+ <Plugin "write_kafka">
+ Property "metadata.broker.list" "broker1:9092,broker2:9092"
+ <Topic "collectd">
+ Format JSON
+ </Topic>
+ </Plugin>
+
+The following options are understood by the I<write_kafka plugin>:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item E<lt>B<Topic> I<Name>E<gt>
+
+The plugin's configuration consists of one or more B<Topic> blocks. Each block
+is given a unique I<Name> and specifies one kafka producer.
+Inside the B<Topic> block, the following per-topic options are
+understood:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Property> I<String> I<String>
+
+Configure the named property for the current topic. Properties are
+forwarded to the kafka producer library B<librdkafka>.
+
+=item B<Key> I<String>
+
+Use the specified string as a partioning key for the topic. Kafka breaks
+topic into partitions and guarantees that for a given topology, the same
+consumer will be used for a specific key. The special (case insensitive)
+string B<Random> can be used to specify that an arbitrary partition should
+be used.
+
+=item B<Format> B<Command>|B<JSON>|B<Graphite>
+
+Selects the format in which messages are sent to the broker. If set to
+B<Command> (the default), values are sent as C<PUTVAL> commands which are
+identical to the syntax used by the I<Exec> and I<UnixSock plugins>.
+
+If set to B<JSON>, the values are encoded in the I<JavaScript Object Notation>,
+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".
+
+=item B<StoreRates> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Determines whether or not C<COUNTER>, C<DERIVE> and C<ABSOLUTE> data sources
+are converted to a I<rate> (i.e. a C<GAUGE> value). If set to B<false> (the
+default), no conversion is performed. Otherwise the conversion is performed
+using the internal value cache.
+
+Please note that currently this option is only used if the B<Format> option has
+been set to B<JSON>.
+
+=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>"
+
+=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>"
+
+=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>).
+
+=item B<GraphiteSeparateInstances> B<false>|B<true>
+
+If set to B<true>, the plugin instance and type instance will be in their own
+path component, for example C<host.cpu.0.cpu.idle>. If set to B<false> (the
+default), the plugin and plugin instance (and likewise the type and type
+instance) are put into one component, for example C<host.cpu-0.cpu-idle>.
+
+=item B<StoreRates> B<true>|B<false>
+
+If set to B<true> (the default), convert counter values to rates. If set to
+B<false> counter values are stored as is, i.e. as an increasing integer number.
+
+This will be reflected in the C<ds_type> tag: If B<StoreRates> is enabled,
+converted values will have "rate" appended to the data source type, e.g.
+C<ds_type:derive:rate>.
+
+=back
+
+=item B<Property> I<String> I<String>
+
+Configure the kafka producer through properties, you almost always will
+want to set B<metadata.broker.list> to your Kafka broker list.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<write_riemann>
-The I<write_riemann plugin> will send values to I<Riemann>, a powerfull stream
+The I<write_riemann plugin> will send values to I<Riemann>, a powerful stream
aggregation and monitoring system. The plugin sends I<Protobuf> encoded data to
I<Riemann> using UDP packets.
Protocol UDP
StoreRates true
AlwaysAppendDS false
- Delay 10
+ TTLFactor 2.0
</Node>
Tag "foobar"
+ Attribute "foo" "bar"
</Plugin>
The following options are understood by the I<write_riemann plugin>:
identifies a metric in I<Riemann>. If set to B<false> (the default), this is
only done when there is more than one DS.
+=item B<TTLFactor> I<Factor>
+
+I<Riemann> events have a I<Time to Live> (TTL) which specifies how long each
+event is considered active. I<collectd> populates this field based on the
+metrics interval setting. This setting controls the factor with which the
+interval is multiplied to set the TTL. The default value is B<2.0>. Unless you
+know exactly what you're doing, you should only increase this setting from its
+default value.
+
+=item B<Notifications> B<false>|B<true>
+
+If set to B<true>, create riemann events for notifications. This is B<true>
+by default. When processing thresholds from write_riemann, it might prove
+useful to avoid getting notification events.
+
+=item B<CheckThresholds> B<false>|B<true>
+
+If set to B<true>, attach state to events based on thresholds defined
+in the B<Threshold> plugin. Defaults to B<false>.
+
=back
=item B<Tag> I<String>
Add the given string as an additional tag to the metric being sent to
I<Riemann>.
+=item B<Attribute> I<String> I<String>
+
+Consider the two given strings to be the key and value of an additional
+attribute for each metric being sent out to I<Riemann>.
+
=back
=head1 THRESHOLD CONFIGURATION
Here is a configuration example to get you started. Read below for more
information.
- <Threshold>
+ <Plugin threshold>
<Type "foo">
WarningMin 0.00
WarningMax 1000.00
</Type>
</Plugin>
</Host>
- </Threshold>
+ </Plugin>
There are basically two types of configuration statements: The C<Host>,
C<Plugin>, and C<Type> blocks select the value for which a threshold should be
Max 100
Satisfy "All"
</Match>
-
+
# Match if the value of any data source is outside the range of 0 - 100.
<Match "value">
Min 0
<Target "replace">
# Replace "example.net" with "example.com"
Host "\\<example.net\\>" "example.com"
-
+
# Strip "www." from hostnames
Host "\\<www\\." ""
</Target>
=head1 AUTHOR
-Florian Forster E<lt>octo@verplant.orgE<gt>
+Florian Forster E<lt>octo@collectd.orgE<gt>
=cut
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