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- conntrack
Number of nf_conntrack entries.
- - couchdb
- Parse statistics from CouchDB JSON documents.
+ - curl_json
+ Retrieves JSON data via cURL and parses it according to user
+ configuration.
- cpu
CPU utilization: Time spent in the system, user, nice, idle, and related
- libvirt
CPU, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
+ - madwifi
+ Queries very detailed usage statistics from wireless LAN adapters and
+ interfaces that use the Atheros chipset and the MadWifi driver.
+
- mbmon
Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information,
using mbmon(1).
Network UPS tools: UPS current, voltage, power, charge, utilisation,
temperature, etc. See upsd(8).
+ - olsr
+ Queries routing information from the “Optimized Link State Routing”
+ daemon.
+
- onewire (EXPERIMENTAL!)
Read onewire sensors using the owcapu library of the owfs project.
Please read in collectd.conf(5) why this plugin is experimental.
Linux ACPI thermal zone information.
- tokyotyrant
- Record in and file size of a Tokyo Cabinet database file.
+ Reads the number of records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant
+ server.
- uptime
System uptime statistics.
- xmms
Bitrate and frequency of music played with XMMS.
+ - zfs_arc
+ Statistics for ZFS' “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC).
+
* Output can be written or send to various destinations by the following
plugins:
needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's
done.
+ - 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.
+
* Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
* Value processing can be controlled using the "filter chain" infrastructure
and "matches" and "targets". The following plugins are available:
+ - match_empty_counter
+ Match counter values which are currently zero.
+
- match_regex
Match values by their identifier based on regular expressions.
Used by the `oracle' plugin.
* libcurl (optional)
- If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `curl' or `nginx' plugin.
+ If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `curl', `nginx', or `write_http'
+ plugin.
<http://curl.haxx.se/>
* libdbi (optional)
If present, the uuid plugin will check for UUID from HAL.
<http://hal.freedesktop.org/>
- * libiptc (optional, if not found a version shipped with this distribution
- can be used if the Linux kernel headers are available)
+ * libiptc (optional)
For querying iptables counters.
<http://netfilter.org/>
+ If not found on the system, a version shipped with this distribution can
+ be used. It requires some Linux headers in /usr/include/linux. You can
+ force the build system to use the shipped version by specifying
+ --with-libiptc=shipped
+ when running the configure script.
+
* libjvm (optional)
Library that encapsulates the `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM). This library is
used by the Java plugin to execute Java bytecode. See “Configuring with
For the `notify_desktop' plugin.
<http://www.galago-project.org/>
- * liboping (optional, if not found a version shipped with this distribution
- can be used)
+ * liboping (optional)
Used by the `ping' plugin to send and receive ICMP packets.
<http://verplant.org/liboping/>
<http://www.xmms.org/>
* libyajl (optional)
- Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `couchdb' plugin.
+ Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `curl_json' plugin.
<http://www.lloydforge.org/projects/yajl/>
Configuring / Compiling / Installing