X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=45dcadb83f931d87c92fcf4ffd36e56455893d15;hb=1e74bb66c61d965c4aa261adfaf058f3356cff09;hp=5063069009e490e245e57e3498f07a61cb3c2cbf;hpb=66f9d645f883eee0aa408428eefdebdcc6dcfa7e;p=collectd.git diff --git a/README b/README index 50630690..45dcadb8 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ Features - entropy Amount of entropy available to the system. + - ethstat + Network interface card statistics. + - exec Values gathered by a custom program or script. See collectd-exec(5). @@ -125,6 +128,10 @@ Features - 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. @@ -136,6 +143,10 @@ Features Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information, using mbmon(1). + - md + Linux software-RAID device information (number of active, failed, spare + and missing disks). + - memcachec Query and parse data from a memcache daemon (memcached). @@ -188,6 +199,9 @@ Features Network UPS tools: UPS current, voltage, power, charge, utilisation, temperature, etc. See upsd(8). + - numa + Information about Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA). + - olsrd Queries routing information from the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon. @@ -208,6 +222,9 @@ Features write your own plugins in Perl and return arbitrary values using this API. See collectd-perl(5). + - pf + Query statistics from BSD's packet filter "pf". + - pinba Receive and dispatch timing values from Pinba, a profiling extension for PHP. @@ -235,6 +252,10 @@ Features collectd without the need to start a heavy interpreter every interval. See collectd-python(5) for details. + - redis + The redis plugin gathers information from a redis server, including: + uptime, used memory, total connections etc. + - routeros Query interface and wireless registration statistics from RouterOS. @@ -288,6 +309,9 @@ Features - users Users currently logged in. + - varnish + Various statistics from Varnish, an HTTP accelerator. + - vmem Virtual memory statistics, e. g. the number of page-ins/-outs or the number of pagefaults. @@ -308,6 +332,10 @@ Features * 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 @@ -343,11 +371,17 @@ Features needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's done. + - write_graphite + Sends data to Carbon, the storage layer of Graphite. + - 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_redis + Sends the values to a Redis key-value database server. + * Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following plugins keep up informed about what's going on: @@ -427,6 +461,14 @@ Features * Miscellaneous plugins: + - aggregation + Selects multiple value lists based on patterns or regular expressions + and creates new aggregated values lists from those. + + - 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 @@ -504,6 +546,10 @@ Prerequisites * libclntsh (optional) Used by the `oracle' plugin. + * libcredis (optional) + Used by the redis plugin. Please note that you require a 0.2.2 version + or higher. + * libcurl (optional) If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `curl', `nginx', or `write_http' plugin. @@ -550,8 +596,10 @@ Prerequisites * libmodbus (optional) - Used by the `modbus' plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices. - + 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. + * libmysqlclient (optional) Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin. @@ -604,9 +652,14 @@ Prerequisites * libpython (optional) - Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, only 2.3 ≦ Python < 3 is supported. + Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, Python 2.3 and later and Python 3 + are supported. + * librabbitmq (optional; also called “rabbitmq-c”) + Used by the AMQP plugin for AMQP connections, for example to RabbitMQ. + + * librouteros (optional) Used by the `routeros' plugin to connect to a device running `RouterOS'. @@ -653,6 +706,10 @@ Prerequisites Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `curl_json' plugin. + * libvarnish (optional) + Fetches statistics from a Varnish instance. This is needed for the Varnish plugin + + Configuring / Compiling / Installing ------------------------------------