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Iptables' counters: Number of bytes that were matched by a certain
iptables rule.
+ - ipvs
+ IPVS connection statistics (number of connections, octets and packets
+ for each service and destination).
+ See http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/software/index.html.
+
- irq
IRQ counters: Frequency in which certain interrupts occur.
Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information,
using mbmon(1).
+ - memcached
+ Statistics of the memcached distributed caching system.
+ <http://www.danga.com/memcached/>
+
- memory
Memory utilization: Memory occupied by running processes, page cache,
buffer cache and free.
NFS Procedures: Which NFS command were called how often. Only NFSv2 and
NFSv3 right now.
+ - nginx
+ Collects statistics from `nginx' (speak: engine X), a HTTP and mail
+ server/proxy.
+
- ntp
NTP daemon statistics: Local clock drift, offset to peers, etc.
- tape
Bytes and operations read and written on tape devices. Solaris only.
+ - tcpconns
+ Number of TCP connections to specific local and remote ports.
+
- users
Users currently logged in.
platforms.
* libcurl (optional)
- If you want to use the `apache' plugin
+ If you want to use the `apache' and/or `nginx' plugins.
* libiptc (optional)
For querying iptables counters.
* libmysqlclient (optional)
+ Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin.
* libnetlink (optional)
+ Used, obviously, for the `netlink' plugin.
* libnetsnmp (optional)
+ For the `snmp' plugin.
* liboping (optional, if not found a version shipped with this distribution
can be used)
instead.
* libsensors (optional)
- To read from `lm_sensors'.
+ To read from `lm_sensors', see the `sensors' plugin.
* libstatgrab may be used to collect statistics on systems other than Linux
and/or Solaris. Note that CPU- and disk-statistics, while being provided