collectd is a daemon collecting system and application performance metrics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.

collectd’s documentation consists primarily of the manpages that come with the daemon, accompanied with some special documents on certain aspects. A more generic source of …

On this page you can download the collectd sources as GZip or BZip2 compressed tar archive. Some Linux distributions provide binary packages of collectd – you can find links to the …

collectd is able to handle any number of hosts, from one to several thousand. This is achieved by utilizing the resources as efficient as possible, e.g. by merging multiple RRD-updates into one …

collectd is a daemon that receives system statistics and makes them available in a number of ways. The main daemon itself doesn’t have any real functionality apart from loading, querying …

To collect hugepages information, collectd reads directories “/sys/devices/system/node/*/hugepages” and “/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages”. Reading of these …

If you’re looking for stuff like “What does collectd do?” or “How do I enable plugin foo?”, please go to the appropriate place, for example the documentation page.

The python plugin embeds a Python-interpreter into collectd and provides an interface to collectd’s plugin system. This makes it possible to write plugins for collectd in Python.

You can use these plugins with collectd by using a simple transition layer, exec-nagios.px, which is shipped with the collectd distribution in the contrib/ directory.

Starting with version 4.3.0 collectd has support for monitoring. By that we mean that the values are not only stored or sent somewhere, but that they are judged and, if a problem is …