
collectd | The system statistics collection daemon
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.
Documentation - collectd
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 …
Download | collectd
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 …
Features | collectd
In contrast to most similar software, collectd is not a script but written in plain C for performance and portability. As a daemon it stays in memory, so there is no need to start up a heavy …
collectd (1) | collectd
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 …
Frequently asked questions | collectd
The long answer and explanation of the short answer is: collectd runs on a variety of operating systems. Each operating system has it’s own method for accounting CPU states, memory …
collectd.conf (5) | collectd
The plugin translates the value it receives to collectd’s internal format and, depending on the write plugins you have loaded, it may be written to disk or submitted to another instance.
collectd-exec (5) | collectd
Even a simple mechanism to submit “performance data” to collectd is implemented. If you need a more sophisticated setup, please rewrite the plugin to make use of collectd’s more powerful …
collectd-python (5) | collectd
There are a lot of places where strings are sent from collectd to Python and from Python to collectd. How exactly this works depends on whether byte or unicode strings or Python2 or …
collectd-unixsock (5) | collectd
collectd ships the Perl-Module Collectd::Unixsock which provides an abstraction layer over the actual socket connection. It can be found in the directory bindings/perl/ in the source …