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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'.
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.
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
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.
- 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
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.
done.
- write_graphite
- Sends data to Carbon, the storage layer of 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_mongodb
+ Sends data to MongoDB, a NoSQL database.
+
- 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:
+ plugins keep us informed about what's going on:
- logfile
Writes logmessages to a file or STDOUT/STDERR.
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.
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
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/>
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.