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Sensors in Macs running Mac OS X / Darwin: Temperature, fanspeed and
voltage sensors.
Sensors in Macs running Mac OS X / Darwin: Temperature, fanspeed and
voltage sensors.
+ - aquaero
+ Various sensors in the Aquaero 5 watercooling board made by Aquacomputer.
+
- ascent
Statistics about Ascent, a free server for the game `World of Warcraft'.
- ascent
Statistics about Ascent, a free server for the game `World of Warcraft'.
Name server and resolver statistics from the `statistics-channel'
interface of BIND 9.5, 9,6 and later.
Name server and resolver statistics from the `statistics-channel'
interface of BIND 9.5, 9,6 and later.
+ - cgroups
+ CPU accounting information for process groups under Linux.
+
- conntrack
Number of nf_conntrack entries.
- conntrack
Number of nf_conntrack entries.
- entropy
Amount of entropy available to the system.
- entropy
Amount of entropy available to the system.
+ - ethstat
+ Network interface card statistics.
+
- exec
Values gathered by a custom program or script.
See collectd-exec(5).
- exec
Values gathered by a custom program or script.
See collectd-exec(5).
technique built into IBM's POWER processors.
- libvirt
technique built into IBM's POWER processors.
- libvirt
- CPU, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
+ CPU, memory, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
+
+ - lvm
+ Size of “Logical Volumes” (LV) and “Volume Groups” (VG) of Linux'
+ “Logical Volume Manager” (LVM).
- madwifi
Queries very detailed usage statistics from wireless LAN adapters and
- madwifi
Queries very detailed usage statistics from wireless LAN adapters and
Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information,
using mbmon(1).
Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information,
using mbmon(1).
+ - md
+ Linux software-RAID device information (number of active, failed, spare
+ and missing disks).
+
- memcachec
Query and parse data from a memcache daemon (memcached).
- memcachec
Query and parse data from a memcache daemon (memcached).
Memory utilization: Memory occupied by running processes, page cache,
buffer cache and free.
Memory utilization: Memory occupied by running processes, page cache,
buffer cache and free.
+ - mic
+ Collects CPU usage, memory usage, temperatures and power consumption from
+ Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) CPUs.
+
- modbus
Reads values from Modbus/TCP enabled devices. Supports reading values
from multiple "slaves" so gateway devices can be used.
- modbus
Reads values from Modbus/TCP enabled devices. Supports reading values
from multiple "slaves" so gateway devices can be used.
Network UPS tools: UPS current, voltage, power, charge, utilisation,
temperature, etc. See upsd(8).
Network UPS tools: UPS current, voltage, power, charge, utilisation,
temperature, etc. See upsd(8).
+ - numa
+ Information about Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA).
+
- olsrd
Queries routing information from the “Optimized Link State Routing”
daemon.
- olsrd
Queries routing information from the “Optimized Link State Routing”
daemon.
write your own plugins in Perl and return arbitrary values using this
API. See collectd-perl(5).
write your own plugins in Perl and return arbitrary values using this
API. See collectd-perl(5).
+ - pf
+ Query statistics from BSD's packet filter "pf".
+
- pinba
Receive and dispatch timing values from Pinba, a profiling extension for
PHP.
- pinba
Receive and dispatch timing values from Pinba, a profiling extension for
PHP.
- serial
RX and TX of serial interfaces. Linux only; needs root privileges.
- serial
RX and TX of serial interfaces. Linux only; needs root privileges.
+ - sigrok
+ Uses libsigrok as a backend, allowing any sigrok-supported device
+ to have its measurements fed to collectd. This includes multimeters,
+ sound level meters, thermometers, and much more.
+
- snmp
Read values from SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) enabled
network devices such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack monitoring
- snmp
Read values from SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) enabled
network devices such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack monitoring
Follows (tails) logfiles, parses them by lines and submits matched
values.
Follows (tails) logfiles, parses them by lines and submits matched
values.
+ - tail_csv
+ Follows (tails) files in CSV format, parses each line and submits
+ extracted values.
+
- tape
Bytes and operations read and written on tape devices. Solaris only.
- tape
Bytes and operations read and written on tape devices. Solaris only.
needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's
done.
needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's
done.
+ - write_graphite
+ Sends data to Carbon, the storage layer of Graphite using TCP or UDP. It
+ can be configured to avoid logging send errors (especially useful when
+ using UDP).
+
- write_http
Sends the values collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST
requests. The transmitted data is either in a form understood by the
Exec plugin or formatted in JSON.
- write_http
Sends the values collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST
requests. The transmitted data is either in a form understood by the
Exec plugin or formatted in JSON.
+ - write_mongodb
+ Sends data to MongoDB, a NoSQL database.
+
- write_redis
Sends the values to a Redis key-value database server.
- write_redis
Sends the values to a Redis key-value database server.
+ - write_riemann
+ Sends data to Riemann, a stream processing and monitoring system.
+
* Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
* Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
* Miscellaneous plugins:
* Miscellaneous plugins:
+ - aggregation
+ Selects multiple value lists based on patterns or regular expressions
+ and creates new aggregated values lists from those.
+
- threshold
Checks values against configured thresholds and creates notifications if
values are out of bounds. See collectd-threshold(5) for details.
- threshold
Checks values against configured thresholds and creates notifications if
values are out of bounds. See collectd-threshold(5) for details.
used and should be found in various implementations for hopefully all
platforms.
used and should be found in various implementations for hopefully all
platforms.
+ * aerotools-ng (optional)
+ Used by the `aquaero' plugin. Currently, the `libaquaero5' library, which
+ is used by the `aerotools-ng' toolkit, is not compiled as a shared object
+ nor does it feature an installation routine. Therefore, you need to point
+ collectd's configure script at the source directory of the `aerotools-ng'
+ project.
+ <https://github.com/lynix/aerotools-ng>
+
* CoreFoundation.framework and IOKit.framework (optional)
For compiling on Darwin in general and the `apple_sensors' plugin in
particular.
* CoreFoundation.framework and IOKit.framework (optional)
For compiling on Darwin in general and the `apple_sensors' plugin in
particular.
Used by the `memcachec' plugin to connect to a memcache daemon.
<http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html>
Used by the `memcachec' plugin to connect to a memcache daemon.
<http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html>
+ * libmnl (optional)
+ Used by the `netlink' plugin.
+ <http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libmnl/>
+
* libmodbus (optional)
Used by the “modbus” plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices. The
“modbus” plugin works with version 2.0.3 of the library – due to frequent
* libmodbus (optional)
Used by the “modbus” plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices. The
“modbus” plugin works with version 2.0.3 of the library – due to frequent
Required for the “netapp” plugin.
This library is part of the “Manage ONTAP SDK” published by NetApp.
Required for the “netapp” plugin.
This library is part of the “Manage ONTAP SDK” published by NetApp.
- * libnetlink (optional)
- Used, obviously, for the `netlink' plugin.
- <http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Iproute2>
-
* libnetsnmp (optional)
For the `snmp' plugin.
<http://www.net-snmp.org/>
* libnetsnmp (optional)
For the `snmp' plugin.
<http://www.net-snmp.org/>
To read from `lm_sensors', see the `sensors' plugin.
<http://www.lm-sensors.org/>
To read from `lm_sensors', see the `sensors' plugin.
<http://www.lm-sensors.org/>
+ * libsigrok (optional)
+ Used by the sigrok plugin. In addition, libsigrok depends on glib,
+ libzip, and optionally (depending on which drivers are enabled) on
+ libusb, libftdi and libudev.
+
* libstatgrab (optional)
Used by various plugins to collect statistics on systems other than Linux
and/or Solaris.
* libstatgrab (optional)
Used by various plugins to collect statistics on systems other than Linux
and/or Solaris.