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- load
System load average over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
+ - lpar
+ Detailed CPU statistics of the “Logical Partitions” virtualization
+ technique built into IBM's POWER processors.
+
- libvirt
CPU, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
* Output can be written or sent to various destinations by the following
plugins:
+ - amqp
+ Sends JSON-encoded data to an Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
+ server, such as RabbitMQ.
+
- csv
Write to comma separated values (CSV) files. This needs lots of
diskspace but is extremely portable and can be analysed with almost
* Miscellaneous plugins:
+ - threshold
+ Checks values against configured thresholds and creates notifications if
+ values are out of bounds. See collectd-threshold(5) for details.
+
- uuid
Sets the hostname to an unique identifier. This is meant for setups
where each client may migrate to another physical host, possibly going
<http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html>
* libmodbus (optional)
- Used by the `modbus' plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices.
- <https://launchpad.net/libmodbus>
+ 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
+ API changes other versions may or may not compile cleanly.
+ <http://www.libmodbus.org/>
* libmysqlclient (optional)
Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin.
Used to capture packets by the `dns' plugin.
<http://www.tcpdump.org/>
+ * libperfstat (optional)
+ Used by various plugins to gather statistics under AIX.
+
* libperl (optional)
Obviously used by the `perl' plugin. The library has to be compiled with
ithread support (introduced in Perl 5.6.0).
Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, only 2.3 ≦ Python < 3 is supported.
<http://www.python.org/>
+ * librabbitmq (optional; also called “rabbitmq-c”)
+ Used by the AMQP plugin for AMQP connections, for example to RabbitMQ.
+ <http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-c/>
+
* librouteros (optional)
Used by the `routeros' plugin to connect to a device running `RouterOS'.
<http://verplant.org/librouteros/>