Merge branch 'collectd-5.5'

[collectd.git] / src / collectd.conf.pod

diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod
index d7d1501656afd20f4ed87d34153c6d0ac4683c2b..a5af576239492a379ca88b40ac324bf5ed9d245a 100644 (file)
--- a/src/collectd.conf.pod
+++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod
@@ -4957,6 +4957,13 @@ Default: B<0.9>
 
 Sets the Time-To-Live of generated ICMP packets.
 
+=item B<Size> I<size>
+
+Sets the size of the data payload in ICMP packet to specified I<size> (it
+will be filled with regular ASCII pattern). If not set, default 56 byte
+long string is used so that the packet size of an ICMPv4 packet is exactly
+64 bytes, similar to the behaviour of normal ping(1) command.
+
 =item B<SourceAddress> I<host>
 
 Sets the source address to use. I<host> may either be a numerical network
@@ -6232,6 +6239,12 @@ rate of counters and size of sets will be zero, timers report C<NaN> and gauges
 are unchanged. If set to B<True>, the such metrics are not dispatched and
 removed from the internal cache.
 
+=item B<CounterSum> B<false>|B<true>
+
+When enabled, create a C<count> metric which reports the change since the last
+read. This option primarily exists for compatibility with the I<statsd>
+impelemtation by Etsy.
+
 =item B<TimerPercentile> I<Percent>
 
 Calculate and dispatch the configured percentile, i.e. compute the latency, so
@@ -7271,6 +7284,14 @@ Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to C<2003>.
 
 Protocol to use when connecting to I<Graphite>. Defaults to C<tcp>.
 
+=item B<ReconnectInterval> I<Seconds>
+
+When set to non-zero, forces the connection to the Graphite backend to be
+closed and re-opend periodically. This behavior is desirable in environments
+where the connection to the Graphite backend is done through load balancers,
+for example. When set to zero, the default, the connetion is kept open for as
+long as possible.
+
 =item B<LogSendErrors> B<false>|B<true>
 
 If set to B<true> (the default), logs errors when sending data to I<Graphite>.