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+
=head1 NAME
collectd.conf - Configuration for the system statistics collection daemon B<collectd>
=item B<LoadPlugin> I<Plugin>
-Loads the plugin I<Plugin>. There must be at least one such line or B<collectd>
-will be mostly useless.
-
-Starting with collectd 4.9, this may also be a block in which further options
-affecting the behavior of B<LoadPlugin> may be specified. The following
-options are allowed inside a B<LoadPlugin> block:
-
- <LoadPlugin perl>
- Globals true
- Interval 10
- </LoadPlugin>
+Loads the plugin I<Plugin>. This is required to load plugins, unless the
+B<AutoLoadPlugin> option is enabled (see below). Without any loaded plugins,
+I<collectd> will be mostly useless.
Only the first B<LoadPlugin> statement or block for a given plugin name has any
effect. This is useful when you want to split up the configuration into smaller
different intervals, only one of them (the first one encountered) will take
effect and all others will be silently ignored.
+B<LoadPlugin> may either be a simple configuration I<statement> or a I<block>
+with additional options, affecting the behavior of B<LoadPlugin>. A simple
+statement looks like this:
+
+ LoadPlugin "cpu"
+
+Options inside a B<LoadPlugin> block can override default settings and
+influence the way plugins are loaded, e.g.:
+
+ <LoadPlugin perl>
+ Globals true
+ Interval 60
+ </LoadPlugin>
+
+The following options are valid inside B<LoadPlugin> blocks:
+
=over 4
=item B<Globals> B<true|false>
=back
+=item B<AutoLoadPlugin> B<false>|B<true>
+
+When set to B<false> (the default), each plugin needs to be loaded explicitly,
+using the B<LoadPlugin> statement documented above. If a
+B<E<lt>PluginE<nbsp>...E<gt>> block is encountered and no configuration
+handling callback for this plugin has been registered, a warning is logged and
+the block is ignored.
+
+When set to B<true>, explicit B<LoadPlugin> statements are not required. Each
+B<E<lt>PluginE<nbsp>...E<gt>> block acts as if it was immediately preceded by a
+B<LoadPlugin> statement. B<LoadPlugin> statements are still required for
+plugins that don't provide any configuration, e.g. the I<Load plugin>.
+
=item B<Include> I<Path> [I<pattern>]
If I<Path> points to a file, includes that file. If I<Path> points to a
Include "/etc/collectd.d/*.conf"
+Starting with version 5.3, this may also be a block in which further options
+affecting the behavior of B<Include> may be specified. The following option is
+currently allowed:
+
+ <Include "/etc/collectd.d">
+ Filter "*.conf"
+ </Include>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Filter> I<pattern>
+
If the C<fnmatch> function is available on your system, a shell-like wildcard
I<pattern> may be specified to filter which files to include. This may be used
in combination with recursively including a directory to easily be able to
arbitrarily mix configuration files and other documents (e.g. README files).
-The following statement is similar to the example above but includes all files
+The given example is similar to the first example above but includes all files
matching C<*.conf> in any subdirectory of C</etc/collectd.d>:
Include "/etc/collectd.d" "*.conf"
+=back
+
If more than one files are included by a single B<Include> option, the files
will be included in lexicographical order (as defined by the C<strcmp>
function). Thus, you can e.E<nbsp>g. use numbered prefixes to specify the
default value is B<5>, but you may want to increase this if you have more than
five plugins that may take relatively long to write to.
+=item B<WriteQueueLimitHigh> I<HighNum>
+
+=item B<WriteQueueLimitLow> I<LowNum>
+
+Metrics are read by the I<read threads> and then put into a queue to be handled
+by the I<write threads>. If one of the I<write plugins> is slow (e.g. network
+timeouts, I/O saturation of the disk) this queue will grow. In order to avoid
+running into memory issues in such a case, you can limit the size of this
+queue.
+
+By default, there is no limit and memory may grow indefinitely. This is most
+likely not an issue for clients, i.e. instances that only handle the local
+metrics. For servers it is recommended to set this to a non-zero value, though.
+
+You can set the limits using B<WriteQueueLimitHigh> and B<WriteQueueLimitLow>.
+Each of them takes a numerical argument which is the number of metrics in the
+queue. If there are I<HighNum> metrics in the queue, any new metrics I<will> be
+dropped. If there are less than I<LowNum> metrics in the queue, all new metrics
+I<will> be enqueued. If the number of metrics currently in the queue is between
+I<LowNum> and I<HighNum>, the metric is dropped with a probability that is
+proportional to the number of metrics in the queue (i.e. it increases linearly
+until it reaches 100%.)
+
+If B<WriteQueueLimitHigh> is set to non-zero and B<WriteQueueLimitLow> is
+unset, the latter will default to half of B<WriteQueueLimitHigh>.
+
+If you do not want to randomly drop values when the queue size is between
+I<LowNum> and I<HighNum>, set If B<WriteQueueLimitHigh> and
+B<WriteQueueLimitLow> to same value.
+
=item B<Hostname> I<Name>
Sets the hostname that identifies a host. If you omit this setting, the
many small files are stored on the disk. This is a usual scenario for mail
transfer agents and web caches.
+=item B<ValuesAbsolute> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Enables or disables reporting of free, used and used disk space in 1K-blocks.
+Defaults to true.
+
+=item B<ValuesPercentage> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Enables or disables reporting of free, used and used disk space in percentage.
+Defaults to false.
+
+This is useful for deploying collectd on the cloud, where machines with
+different disk size may exist. Then it is more practical to configure thresholds
+based on relative disk size.
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<disk>
=back
+=head2 Plugin "sigrok"
+
+The I<sigrok> plugin uses libsigrok to retrieve measurements from any device
+supported by the L<sigrok|http://sigrok.org/> project.
+
+B<Synopsis>
+
+ <Plugin sigrok>
+ LogLevel 3
+ <Device "AC Voltage">
+ Driver "fluke-dmm"
+ Interval 10
+ Conn "/dev/ttyUSB2"
+ </Device>
+ <Device "Sound Level">
+ Driver "cem-dt-885x"
+ Conn "/dev/ttyUSB1"
+ </Device>
+ </Plugin>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<LogLevel> B<0-5>
+
+The sigrok logging level to pass on to the collectd log, as a number 0-5.
+These levels correspond to None, Errors, Warnings, Informational, Debug
+and Spew, respectively. The default is 2 (Warnings). The sigrok log messages,
+regardless of their level, are always submitted to collectd at its INFO
+log level.
+
+=item E<lt>B<Device> I<name>E<gt>
+
+A sigrok-supported device, uniquely identified by this section's options. The
+I<name> is passed to collectd as the I<plugin instance>.
+
+=item B<Driver>
+
+The sigrok driver to use for this device.
+
+=item B<Conn>
+
+If the device cannot be auto-discovered, or more than one might be discovered
+by the driver, I<Conn> specifies the connection string to the device. It can
+be of the form of a serial port (I</dev/ttyUSB2>), or, in case of a non-serial
+USB-connected device, the USB VendorID/ProductID separated by a period
+(I<0403.6001>). A USB device can also be specified as bus.address
+(I<1.41>).
+
+=item B<SerialComm>
+
+For serial devices with non-standard port settings, this option can be used
+to specify them in the form I<9600/8n1>. This should not be necessary; drivers
+know how to communicate with devices they support.
+
+=item B<Interval>
+
+Specifies the minimum time between measurement dispatches to collectd, in
+seconds. Since some sigrok-supported devices can acquire measurements many
+times per second, it may be necessary to throttle these. For example, the
+RRD plugin cannot process writes more than once per second.
+
+The default (and minimum) interval is 1 second. Unused measurements are
+discarded.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<snmp>
Since the configuration of the C<snmp plugin> is a little more complicated than
=head2 Plugin C<varnish>
-The Varnish plugin collects information about Varnish, an HTTP accelerator.
+The I<varnish plugin> collects information about Varnish, an HTTP accelerator.
+
+Synopsis:
+
+ <Plugin "varnish">
+ <Instance "example">
+ CollectCache true
+ CollectConnections true
+ CollectBackend true
+ CollectSHM true
+ CollectESI false
+ CollectFetch false
+ CollectHCB false
+ CollectSMA false
+ CollectSMS false
+ CollectSM false
+ CollectTotals false
+ CollectWorkers false
+ </Instance>
+ </Plugin>
+
+The configuration consists of one or more E<lt>B<Instance>E<nbsp>I<Name>E<gt>
+blocks. I<Name> is the parameter passed to "varnishd -n". If left empty, it
+will collectd statistics from the default "varnishd" instance (this should work
+fine in most cases).
+
+Inside each E<lt>B<Instance>E<gt> blocks, the following options are recognized:
=over 4
Statistics about the shared memory log, a memory region to store
log messages which is flushed to disk when full. True by default.
+=item B<CollectBan> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Statistics about ban operations, such as number of bans added, retired, and
+number of objects tested against ban operations. Only available with Varnish
+3.x. False by default.
+
+=item B<CollectDirectorDNS> B<true>|B<false>
+
+DNS director lookup cache statistics. Only available with Varnish 3.x. False by
+default.
+
=item B<CollectESI> B<true>|B<false>
Edge Side Includes (ESI) parse statistics. False by default.
@@ -5701,10 +5885,27 @@ Statistics about fetches (HTTP requests sent to the backend). False by default.
Inserts and look-ups in the crit bit tree based hash. Look-ups are
divided into locked and unlocked look-ups. False by default.
+=item B<CollectObjects> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Statistics on cached objects: number of objects expired, nuked (prematurely
+expired), saved, moved, etc. False by default.
+
+=item B<CollectPurge> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Statistics about purge operations, such as number of purges added, retired, and
+number of objects tested against purge operations. Only available with Varnish
+2.x. False by default.
+
+=item B<CollectSession> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Client session statistics. Number of past and current sessions, session herd and
+linger counters, etc. False by default.
+
=item B<CollectSMA> B<true>|B<false>
-malloc or umem (umem_alloc(3MALLOC) based) storage statistics.
-The umem storage component is Solaris specific. False by default.
+malloc or umem (umem_alloc(3MALLOC) based) storage statistics. The umem storage
+component is Solaris specific. Only available with Varnish 2.x. False by
+default.
=item B<CollectSMS> B<true>|B<false>
=item B<CollectSM> B<true>|B<false>
-file (memory mapped file) storage statistics. False by default.
+file (memory mapped file) storage statistics. Only available with Varnish 2.x.
+False by default.
+
+=item B<CollectStruct> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Current varnish internal state statistics. Number of current sessions, objects
+in cache store, open connections to backends (with Varnish 2.x), etc. False by
+default.
=item B<CollectTotals> B<true>|B<false>
Collects overview counters, such as the number of sessions created,
the number of requests and bytes transferred. False by default.
+=item B<CollectUptime> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Varnish uptime. False by default.
+
+=item B<CollectVCL> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Number of total (available + discarded) VCL (config files). False by default.
+
=item B<CollectWorkers> B<true>|B<false>
Collect statistics about worker threads. False by default.
The C<write_graphite> plugin writes data to I<Graphite>, an open-source metrics
storage and graphing project. The plugin connects to I<Carbon>, the data layer
-of I<Graphite>, and sends data via the "line based" protocol (per default using
-portE<nbsp>2003). The data will be sent in blocks of at most 1428 bytes to
-minimize the number of network packets.
+of I<Graphite>, via I<TCP> or I<UDP> and sends data via the "line based"
+protocol (per default using portE<nbsp>2003). The data will be sent in blocks
+of at most 1428 bytes to minimize the number of network packets.
Synopsis:
<Node "example">
Host "localhost"
Port "2003"
+ Protocol "udp"
+ LogSendErrors true
Prefix "collectd"
</Node>
</Plugin>
Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to C<2003>.
+=item B<Protocol> I<String>
+
+Protocol to use when connecting to I<Graphite>. Defaults to C<tcp>.
+
+=item B<LogSendErrors> B<false>|B<true>
+
+If set to B<true> (the default), logs errors when sending data to I<Graphite>.
+If set to B<false>, it will not log the errors. This is especially useful when
+using Protocol UDP since many times we want to use the "fire-and-forget"
+approach and logging errors fills syslog with unneeded messages.
+
=item B<Prefix> I<String>
When set, I<String> is added in front of the host name. Dots and whitespace are
Protocol UDP
StoreRates true
AlwaysAppendDS false
- Delay 10
+ TTLFactor 2.0
</Node>
Tag "foobar"
</Plugin>
identifies a metric in I<Riemann>. If set to B<false> (the default), this is
only done when there is more than one DS.
+=item B<TTLFactor> I<Factor>
+
+I<Riemann> events have a I<Time to Live> (TTL) which specifies how long each
+event is considered active. I<collectd> populates this field based on the
+metrics interval setting. This setting controls the factor with which the
+interval is multiplied to set the TTL. The default value is B<2.0>. Unless you
+know exactly what you're doing, you should only increase this setting from its
+default value.
+
=back
=item B<Tag> I<String>