Ubuntu Manpage: collectd.conf - Configuration for the system statistics collection daemon collectd

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NAME

       collectd.conf - Configuration for the system statistics collection daemon collectd

SYNOPSIS

         BaseDir "/path/to/data/"
         PIDFile "/path/to/pidfile/collectd.pid"
         Server  "123.123.123.123" 12345

         LoadPlugin cpu
         LoadPlugin load

         <LoadPlugin df>
           Interval 3600
         </LoadPlugin>

         LoadPlugin ping
         <Plugin ping>
           Host "example.org"
           Host "provider.net"
         </Plugin>

DESCRIPTION

This config file controls how the system statistics collection daemon collectd behaves.
The most significant option is LoadPlugin, which controls which plugins to load. These
plugins ultimately define collectd's behavior.

The syntax of this config file is similar to the config file of the famous Apache
webserver. Each line contains either an option (a key and a list of one or more values) or
a section-start or -end. Empty lines and everything after a non-quoted hash-symbol ("#")
is ignored. Keys are unquoted strings, consisting only of alphanumeric characters and the
underscore ("_") character. Keys are handled case insensitive by collectd itself and all
plugins included with it. Values can either be an unquoted string, a quoted string
(enclosed in double-quotes) a number or a boolean expression. Unquoted strings consist of
only alphanumeric characters and underscores ("_") and do not need to be quoted. Quoted
strings are enclosed in double quotes ("""). You can use the backslash character ("\") to
include double quotes as part of the string. Numbers can be specified in decimal and
floating point format (using a dot "." as decimal separator), hexadecimal when using the
"0x" prefix and octal with a leading zero (0). Boolean values are either true or false.

Lines may be wrapped by using "\" as the last character before the newline. This allows
long lines to be split into multiple lines. Quoted strings may be wrapped as well.
However, those are treated special in that whitespace at the beginning of the following
lines will be ignored, which allows for nicely indenting the wrapped lines.

The configuration is read and processed in order, i.e. from top to bottom. So the plugins
are loaded in the order listed in this config file. It is a good idea to load any logging
plugins first in order to catch messages from plugins during configuration. Also, the
"LoadPlugin" option must occur before the appropriate "<Plugin ...>" block.

GLOBAL OPTIONS

BaseDir Directory
Sets the base directory. This is the directory beneath all RRD-files are created.
Possibly more subdirectories are created. This is also the working directory for the
daemon.

LoadPlugin Plugin
Loads the plugin Plugin. This is required to load plugins, unless the AutoLoadPlugin
option is enabled (see below). Without any loaded plugins, collectd will be mostly
useless.

Only the first 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 files and want
each file to be "self contained", i.e. it contains a Plugin block and then appropriate
LoadPlugin statement. The downside is that if you have multiple conflicting LoadPlugin
blocks, e.g. when they specify different intervals, only one of them (the first one
encountered) will take effect and all others will be silently ignored.

LoadPlugin may either be a simple configuration statement or a block with additional
options, affecting the behavior of LoadPlugin. A simple statement looks like this:

LoadPlugin "cpu"

Options inside a 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 LoadPlugin blocks:

Globals true|false
If enabled, collectd will export all global symbols of the plugin (and of all
libraries loaded as dependencies of the plugin) and, thus, makes those symbols
available for resolving unresolved symbols in subsequently loaded plugins if that
is supported by your system.

This is useful (or possibly even required), e.g., when loading a plugin that
embeds some scripting language into the daemon (e.g. the Perl and Python plugins).
Scripting languages usually provide means to load extensions written in C. Those
extensions require symbols provided by the interpreter, which is loaded as a
dependency of the respective collectd plugin. See the documentation of those
plugins (e.g., collectd-perl(5) or collectd-python(5)) for details.

By default, this is disabled. As a special exception, if the plugin name is either
"perl" or "python", the default is changed to enabled in order to keep the average
user from ever having to deal with this low level linking stuff.

Interval Seconds
Sets a plugin-specific interval for collecting metrics. This overrides the global
Interval setting. If a plugin provides own support for specifying an interval,
that setting will take precedence.

AutoLoadPlugin false|true
When set to false (the default), each plugin needs to be loaded explicitly, using the
LoadPlugin statement documented above. If a <Plugin ...> 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 true, explicit LoadPlugin statements are not required. Each <Plugin ...>
block acts as if it was immediately preceded by a LoadPlugin statement. LoadPlugin
statements are still required for plugins that don't provide any configuration, e.g.
the Load plugin.

Include Path [pattern]
If Path points to a file, includes that file. If Path points to a directory,
recursively includes all files within that directory and its subdirectories. If the
"wordexp" function is available on your system, shell-like wildcards are expanded
before files are included. This means you can use statements like the following:

Include "/etc/collectd.d/*.conf"

Starting with version 5.3, this may also be a block in which further options affecting
the behavior of Include may be specified. The following option is currently allowed:

<Include "/etc/collectd.d">
Filter "*.conf"
</Include>

Filter pattern
If the "fnmatch" function is available on your system, a shell-like wildcard
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
given example is similar to the first example above but includes all files
matching "*.conf" in any subdirectory of "/etc/collectd.d":

Include "/etc/collectd.d" "*.conf"

If more than one files are included by a single Include option, the files will be
included in lexicographical order (as defined by the "strcmp" function). Thus, you can
e. g. use numbered prefixes to specify the order in which the files are loaded.

To prevent loops and shooting yourself in the foot in interesting ways the nesting is
limited to a depth of 8 levels, which should be sufficient for most uses. Since
symlinks are followed it is still possible to crash the daemon by looping symlinks. In
our opinion significant stupidity should result in an appropriate amount of pain.

It is no problem to have a block like "<Plugin foo>" in more than one file, but you
cannot include files from within blocks.

PIDFile File
Sets where to write the PID file to. This file is overwritten when it exists and
deleted when the program is stopped. Some init-scripts might override this setting
using the -P command-line option.

PluginDir Directory
Path to the plugins (shared objects) of collectd.

TypesDB File [File ...]
Set one or more files that contain the data-set descriptions. See types.db(5) for a
description of the format of this file.

Interval Seconds
Configures the interval in which to query the read plugins. Obviously smaller values
lead to a higher system load produced by collectd, while higher values lead to more
coarse statistics.

Warning: You should set this once and then never touch it again. If you do, you will
have to delete all your RRD files or know some serious RRDtool magic! (Assuming you're
using the RRDtool or RRDCacheD plugin.)

Timeout Iterations
Consider a value list "missing" when no update has been read or received for
Iterations iterations. By default, collectd considers a value list missing when no
update has been received for twice the update interval. Since this setting uses
iterations, the maximum allowed time without update depends on the Interval
information contained in each value list. This is used in the Threshold configuration
to dispatch notifications about missing values, see collectd-threshold(5) for details.

ReadThreads Num
Number of threads to start for reading plugins. The default value is 5, but you may
want to increase this if you have more than five plugins that take a long time to
read. Mostly those are plugins that do network-IO. Setting this to a value higher than
the number of registered read callbacks is not recommended.

WriteThreads Num
Number of threads to start for dispatching value lists to write plugins. The default
value is 5, but you may want to increase this if you have more than five plugins that
may take relatively long to write to.

WriteQueueLimitHigh HighNum
WriteQueueLimitLow LowNum
Metrics are read by the read threads and then put into a queue to be handled by the
write threads. If one of the 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 WriteQueueLimitHigh and WriteQueueLimitLow. Each of them
takes a numerical argument which is the number of metrics in the queue. If there are
HighNum metrics in the queue, any new metrics will be dropped. If there are less than
LowNum metrics in the queue, all new metrics will be enqueued. If the number of
metrics currently in the queue is between LowNum and 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 WriteQueueLimitHigh is set to non-zero and WriteQueueLimitLow is unset, the latter
will default to half of WriteQueueLimitHigh.

If you do not want to randomly drop values when the queue size is between LowNum and
HighNum, set If WriteQueueLimitHigh and WriteQueueLimitLow to same value.

Hostname Name
Sets the hostname that identifies a host. If you omit this setting, the hostname will
be determined using the gethostname(2) system call.

FQDNLookup true|false
If Hostname is determined automatically this setting controls whether or not the
daemon should try to figure out the "fully qualified domain name", FQDN. This is done
using a lookup of the name returned by "gethostname". This option is enabled by
default.

PreCacheChain ChainName
PostCacheChain ChainName
Configure the name of the "pre-cache chain" and the "post-cache chain". Please see
"FILTER CONFIGURATION" below on information on chains and how these setting change the
daemon's behavior.

PLUGIN OPTIONS

Some plugins may register own options. These options must be enclosed in a
"Plugin"-Section. Which options exist depends on the plugin used. Some plugins require
external configuration, too. The "apache plugin", for example, required "mod_status" to be
configured in the webserver you're going to collect data from. These plugins are listed
below as well, even if they don't require any configuration within collectd's
configuration file.

A list of all plugins and a short summary for each plugin can be found in the README file
shipped with the sourcecode and hopefully binary packets as well.

Plugin "aggregation"
The Aggregation plugin makes it possible to aggregate several values into one using
aggregation functions such as sum, average, min and max. This can be put to a wide
variety of uses, e.g. average and total CPU statistics for your entire fleet.

The grouping is powerful but, as with many powerful tools, may be a bit difficult to wrap
your head around. The grouping will therefore be demonstrated using an example: The
average and sum of the CPU usage across all CPUs of each host is to be calculated.

To select all the affected values for our example, set "Plugin cpu" and "Type cpu". The
other values are left unspecified, meaning "all values". The Host, Plugin, PluginInstance,
Type and TypeInstance options work as if they were specified in the "WHERE" clause of an
"SELECT" SQL statement.

Plugin "cpu"
Type "cpu"

Although the Host, PluginInstance (CPU number, i.e. 0, 1, 2, ...) and TypeInstance (idle,
user, system, ...) fields are left unspecified in the example, the intention is to have a
new value for each host / type instance pair. This is achieved by "grouping" the values
using the "GroupBy" option. It can be specified multiple times to group by more than one
field.

GroupBy "Host"
GroupBy "TypeInstance"

We do neither specify nor group by plugin instance (the CPU number), so all metrics that
differ in the CPU number only will be aggregated. Each aggregation needs at least one such
field, otherwise no aggregation would take place.

The full example configuration looks like this:

<Plugin "aggregation">
<Aggregation>
Plugin "cpu"
Type "cpu"

GroupBy "Host"
GroupBy "TypeInstance"

CalculateSum true
CalculateAverage true
</Aggregation>
</Plugin>

There are a couple of limitations you should be aware of:

• The Type cannot be left unspecified, because it is not reasonable to add apples to
oranges. Also, the internal lookup structure won't work if you try to group by type.

• There must be at least one unspecified, ungrouped field. Otherwise nothing will be
aggregated.

As you can see in the example above, each aggregation has its own Aggregation block. You
can have multiple aggregation blocks and aggregation blocks may match the same values,
i.e. one value list can update multiple aggregations. The following options are valid
inside Aggregation blocks:

Host Host
Plugin Plugin
PluginInstance PluginInstance
Type Type
TypeInstance TypeInstance
Selects the value lists to be added to this aggregation. Type must be a valid data set
name, see types.db(5) for details.

If the string starts with and ends with a slash ("/"), the string is interpreted as a
regular expression. The regex flavor used are POSIX extended regular expressions as
described in regex(7). Example usage:

Host "/^db[0-9]\\.example\\.com$/"

GroupBy Host|Plugin|PluginInstance|TypeInstance
Group valued by the specified field. The GroupBy option may be repeated to group by
multiple fields.

SetHost Host
SetPlugin Plugin
SetPluginInstance PluginInstance
SetTypeInstance TypeInstance
Sets the appropriate part of the identifier to the provided string.

The PluginInstance should include the placeholder "%{aggregation}" which will be
replaced with the aggregation function, e.g. "average". Not including the placeholder
will result in duplication warnings and/or messed up values if more than one
aggregation function are enabled.

The following example calculates the average usage of all "even" CPUs:

<Plugin "aggregation">
<Aggregation>
Plugin "cpu"
PluginInstance "/[0,2,4,6,8]$/"
Type "cpu"

SetPlugin "cpu"
SetPluginInstance "even-%{aggregation}"

GroupBy "Host"
GroupBy "TypeInstance"

CalculateAverage true
</Aggregation>
</Plugin>

This will create the files:

• foo.example.com/cpu-even-average/cpu-idle

• foo.example.com/cpu-even-average/cpu-system

• foo.example.com/cpu-even-average/cpu-user

• ...

CalculateNum true|false
CalculateSum true|false
CalculateAverage true|false
CalculateMinimum true|false
CalculateMaximum true|false
CalculateStddev true|false
Boolean options for enabling calculation of the number of value lists, their sum,
average, minimum, maximum and / or standard deviation. All options are disabled by
default.

Plugin "amqp"
The AMQMP plugin can be used to communicate with other instances of collectd or third
party applications using an AMQP message broker. Values are sent to or received from the
broker, which handles routing, queueing and possibly filtering or messages.

<Plugin "amqp">
# Send values to an AMQP broker
<Publish "some_name">
Host "localhost"
Port "5672"
VHost "/"
User "guest"
Password "guest"
Exchange "amq.fanout"
# ExchangeType "fanout"
# RoutingKey "collectd"
# Persistent false
# Format "command"
# StoreRates false
# GraphitePrefix "collectd."
# GraphiteEscapeChar "_"
</Publish>

# Receive values from an AMQP broker
<Subscribe "some_name">
Host "localhost"
Port "5672"
VHost "/"
User "guest"
Password "guest"
Exchange "amq.fanout"
# ExchangeType "fanout"
# Queue "queue_name"
# RoutingKey "collectd.#"
</Subscribe>
</Plugin>

The plugin's configuration consists of a number of Publish and Subscribe blocks, which
configure sending and receiving of values respectively. The two blocks are very similar,
so unless otherwise noted, an option can be used in either block. The name given in the
blocks starting tag is only used for reporting messages, but may be used to support
flushing of certain Publish blocks in the future.

Host Host
Hostname or IP-address of the AMQP broker. Defaults to the default behavior of the
underlying communications library, rabbitmq-c, which is "localhost".

Port Port
Service name or port number on which the AMQP broker accepts connections. This
argument must be a string, even if the numeric form is used. Defaults to "5672".

VHost VHost
Name of the virtual host on the AMQP broker to use. Defaults to "/".

User User
Password Password
Credentials used to authenticate to the AMQP broker. By default "guest"/"guest" is
used.

Exchange Exchange
In Publish blocks, this option specifies the exchange to send values to. By default,
"amq.fanout" will be used.

In Subscribe blocks this option is optional. If given, a binding between the given
exchange and the queue is created, using the routing key if configured. See the Queue
and RoutingKey options below.

ExchangeType Type
If given, the plugin will try to create the configured exchange with this type after
connecting. When in a Subscribe block, the queue will then be bound to this exchange.

Queue Queue (Subscribe only)
Configures the queue name to subscribe to. If no queue name was configures explicitly,
a unique queue name will be created by the broker.

RoutingKey Key
In Publish blocks, this configures the routing key to set on all outgoing messages. If
not given, the routing key will be computed from the identifier of the value. The
host, plugin, type and the two instances are concatenated together using dots as the
separator and all containing dots replaced with slashes. For example
"collectd.host/example/com.cpu.0.cpu.user". This makes it possible to receive only
specific values using a "topic" exchange.

In Subscribe blocks, configures the routing key used when creating a binding between
an exchange and the queue. The usual wildcards can be used to filter messages when
using a "topic" exchange. If you're only interested in CPU statistics, you could use
the routing key "collectd.*.cpu.#" for example.

Persistent true|false (Publish only)
Selects the delivery method to use. If set to true, the persistent mode will be used,
i.e. delivery is guaranteed. If set to false (the default), the transient delivery
mode will be used, i.e. messages may be lost due to high load, overflowing queues or
similar issues.

Format Command|JSON|Graphite (Publish only)
Selects the format in which messages are sent to the broker. If set to Command (the
default), values are sent as "PUTVAL" commands which are identical to the syntax used
by the Exec and UnixSock plugins. In this case, the "Content-Type" header field will
be set to "text/collectd".

If set to JSON, the values are encoded in the JavaScript Object Notation, an easy and
straight forward exchange format. The "Content-Type" header field will be set to
"application/json".

If set to Graphite, values are encoded in the Graphite format, which is "<metric>
<value> <timestamp>\n". The "Content-Type" header field will be set to
"text/graphite".

A subscribing client should use the "Content-Type" header field to determine how to
decode the values. Currently, the AMQP plugin itself can only decode the Command
format.

StoreRates true|false (Publish only)
Determines whether or not "COUNTER", "DERIVE" and "ABSOLUTE" data sources are
converted to a rate (i.e. a "GAUGE" value). If set to false (the default), no
conversion is performed. Otherwise the conversion is performed using the internal
value cache.

Please note that currently this option is only used if the Format option has been set
to JSON.

GraphitePrefix (Publish and Format=Graphite only)
A prefix can be added in the metric name when outputting in the Graphite format. It's
added before the Host name. Metric name will be
"<prefix><host><postfix><plugin><type><name>"

GraphitePostfix (Publish and Format=Graphite only)
A postfix can be added in the metric name when outputting in the Graphite format.
It's added after the Host name. Metric name will be
"<prefix><host><postfix><plugin><type><name>"

GraphiteEscapeChar (Publish and Format=Graphite only)
Specify a character to replace dots (.) in the host part of the metric name. In
Graphite metric name, dots are used as separators between different metric parts
(host, plugin, type). Default is "_" (Underscore).

Plugin "apache"
To configure the "apache"-plugin you first need to configure the Apache webserver
correctly. The Apache-plugin "mod_status" needs to be loaded and working and the
"ExtendedStatus" directive needs to be enabled. You can use the following snipped to base
your Apache config upon:

ExtendedStatus on
<IfModule mod_status.c>
<Location /mod_status>
SetHandler server-status
</Location>
</IfModule>

Since its "mod_status" module is very similar to Apache's, lighttpd is also supported. It
introduces a new field, called "BusyServers", to count the number of currently connected
clients. This field is also supported.

The configuration of the Apache plugin consists of one or more "<Instance />" blocks. Each
block requires one string argument as the instance name. For example:

<Plugin "apache">
<Instance "www1">
URL "http://www1.example.com/mod_status?auto"
</Instance>
<Instance "www2">
URL "http://www2.example.com/mod_status?auto"
</Instance>
</Plugin>

The instance name will be used as the plugin instance. To emulate the old (version 4)
behavior, you can use an empty string (""). In order for the plugin to work correctly,
each instance name must be unique. This is not enforced by the plugin and it is your
responsibility to ensure it.

The following options are accepted within each Instance block:

URL http://host/mod_status?auto
Sets the URL of the "mod_status" output. This needs to be the output generated by
"ExtendedStatus on" and it needs to be the machine readable output generated by
appending the "?auto" argument. This option is mandatory.

User Username
Optional user name needed for authentication.

Password Password
Optional password needed for authentication.

VerifyPeer true|false
Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
<http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html> for details. Enabled by default.

VerifyHost true|false
Enable or disable peer host name verification. If enabled, the plugin checks if the
"Common Name" or a "Subject Alternate Name" field of the SSL certificate matches the
host name provided by the URL option. If this identity check fails, the connection is
aborted. Obviously, only works when connecting to a SSL enabled server. Enabled by
default.

CACert File
File that holds one or more SSL certificates. If you want to use HTTPS you will
possibly need this option. What CA certificates come bundled with "libcurl" and are
checked by default depends on the distribution you use.

Plugin "apcups"
Host Hostname
Hostname of the host running apcupsd. Defaults to localhost. Please note that IPv6
support has been disabled unless someone can confirm or decline that apcupsd can
handle it.

Port Port
TCP-Port to connect to. Defaults to 3551.

ReportSeconds true|false
If set to true, the time reported in the "timeleft" metric will be converted to
seconds. This is the recommended setting. If set to false, the default for backwards
compatibility, the time will be reported in minutes.

Plugin "aquaero"
This plugin collects the value of the available sensors in an Aquaero 5 board. Aquaero 5
is a water-cooling controller board, manufactured by Aqua Computer GmbH
<http://www.aquacomputer.de/>, with a USB2 connection for monitoring and configuration.
The board can handle multiple temperature sensors, fans, water pumps and water level
sensors and adjust the output settings such as fan voltage or power used by the water pump
based on the available inputs using a configurable controller included in the board. This
plugin collects all the available inputs as well as some of the output values chosen by
this controller. The plugin is based on the libaquaero5 library provided by aquatools-ng.

Device DevicePath
Device path of the Aquaero 5's USB HID (human interface device), usually in the form
"/dev/usb/hiddevX". If this option is no set the plugin will try to auto-detect the
Aquaero 5 USB device based on vendor-ID and product-ID.

Plugin "ascent"
This plugin collects information about an Ascent server, a free server for the "World of
Warcraft" game. This plugin gathers the information by fetching the XML status page using
"libcurl" and parses it using "libxml2".

The configuration options are the same as for the "apache" plugin above:

URL http://localhost/ascent/status/
Sets the URL of the XML status output.

User Username
Optional user name needed for authentication.

Password Password
Optional password needed for authentication.

VerifyPeer true|false
Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
<http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html> for details. Enabled by default.

Plugin "bind"
Starting with BIND 9.5.0, the most widely used DNS server software provides extensive
statistics about queries, responses and lots of other information. The bind plugin
retrieves this information that's encoded in XML and provided via HTTP and submits the
values to collectd.

To use this plugin, you first need to tell BIND to make this information available. This
is done with the "statistics-channels" configuration option:

statistics-channels {
inet localhost port 8053;
};

The configuration follows the grouping that can be seen when looking at the data with an
XSLT compatible viewer, such as a modern web browser. It's probably a good idea to make
yourself familiar with the provided values, so you can understand what the collected
statistics actually mean.

Synopsis:

<Plugin "bind">
URL "http://localhost:8053/"
ParseTime false
OpCodes true
QTypes true

ServerStats true
ZoneMaintStats true
ResolverStats false
MemoryStats true

<View "_default">
QTypes true
ResolverStats true
CacheRRSets true

Zone "127.in-addr.arpa/IN"
</View>
</Plugin>

The bind plugin accepts the following configuration options:

URL URL
URL from which to retrieve the XML data. If not specified, "http://localhost:8053/"
will be used.

ParseTime true|false
When set to true, the time provided by BIND will be parsed and used to dispatch the
values. When set to false, the local time source is queried.

This setting is set to true by default for backwards compatibility; setting this to
false is recommended to avoid problems with timezones and localization.

OpCodes true|false
When enabled, statistics about the "OpCodes", for example the number of "QUERY"
packets, are collected.

Default: Enabled.

QTypes true|false
When enabled, the number of incoming queries by query types (for example "A", "MX",
"AAAA") is collected.

Default: Enabled.

ServerStats true|false
Collect global server statistics, such as requests received over IPv4 and IPv6,
successful queries, and failed updates.

Default: Enabled.

ZoneMaintStats true|false
Collect zone maintenance statistics, mostly information about notifications (zone
updates) and zone transfers.

Default: Enabled.

ResolverStats true|false
Collect resolver statistics, i. e. statistics about outgoing requests (e. g. queries
over IPv4, lame servers). Since the global resolver counters apparently were removed
in BIND 9.5.1 and 9.6.0, this is disabled by default. Use the ResolverStats option
within a View "_default" block instead for the same functionality.

Default: Disabled.

MemoryStats
Collect global memory statistics.

Default: Enabled.

View Name
Collect statistics about a specific "view". BIND can behave different, mostly
depending on the source IP-address of the request. These different configurations are
called "views". If you don't use this feature, you most likely are only interested in
the "_default" view.

Within a <View name> block, you can specify which information you want to collect
about a view. If no View block is configured, no detailed view statistics will be
collected.

QTypes true|false
If enabled, the number of outgoing queries by query type (e. g. "A", "MX") is
collected.

Default: Enabled.

ResolverStats true|false
Collect resolver statistics, i. e. statistics about outgoing requests (e. g.
queries over IPv4, lame servers).

Default: Enabled.

CacheRRSets true|false
If enabled, the number of entries ("RR sets") in the view's cache by query type is
collected. Negative entries (queries which resulted in an error, for example names
that do not exist) are reported with a leading exclamation mark, e. g. "!A".

Default: Enabled.

Zone Name
When given, collect detailed information about the given zone in the view. The
information collected if very similar to the global ServerStats information (see
above).

You can repeat this option to collect detailed information about multiple zones.

By default no detailed zone information is collected.

Plugin "cgroups"
This plugin collects the CPU user/system time for each cgroup by reading the cpuacct.stat
files in the first cpuacct-mountpoint (typically /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu.cpuacct on machines
using systemd).

CGroup Directory
Select cgroup based on the name. Whether only matching cgroups are collected or if
they are ignored is controlled by the IgnoreSelected option; see below.

IgnoreSelected true|false
Invert the selection: If set to true, all cgroups except the ones that match any one
of the criteria are collected. By default only selected cgroups are collected if a
selection is made. If no selection is configured at all, all cgroups are selected.

Plugin "cpufreq"
This plugin doesn't have any options. It reads
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq (for the first CPU installed) to get
the current CPU frequency. If this file does not exist make sure cpufreqd
(<http://cpufreqd.sourceforge.net/>) or a similar tool is installed and an "cpu governor"
(that's a kernel module) is loaded.

Plugin "csv"
DataDir Directory
Set the directory to store CSV-files under. Per default CSV-files are generated
beneath the daemon's working directory, i. e. the BaseDir. The special strings stdout
and stderr can be used to write to the standard output and standard error channels,
respectively. This, of course, only makes much sense when collectd is running in
foreground- or non-daemon-mode.

StoreRates true|false
If set to true, convert counter values to rates. If set to false (the default) counter
values are stored as is, i. e. as an increasing integer number.

Plugin "curl"
The curl plugin uses the libcurl (<http://curl.haxx.se/>) to read web pages and the match
infrastructure (the same code used by the tail plugin) to use regular expressions with the
received data.

The following example will read the current value of AMD stock from Google's finance page
and dispatch the value to collectd.

<Plugin curl>
<Page "stock_quotes">
URL "http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AAMD"
User "foo"
Password "bar"
<Match>
Regex "<span +class=\"pr\"[^>]*> *([0-9]*\\.[0-9]+) *</span>"
DSType "GaugeAverage"
# Note: `stock_value' is not a standard type.
Type "stock_value"
Instance "AMD"
</Match>
</Page>
</Plugin>

In the Plugin block, there may be one or more Page blocks, each defining a web page and
one or more "matches" to be performed on the returned data. The string argument to the
Page block is used as plugin instance.

The following options are valid within Page blocks:

URL URL
URL of the web site to retrieve. Since a regular expression will be used to extract
information from this data, non-binary data is a big plus here ;)

User Name
Username to use if authorization is required to read the page.

Password Password
Password to use if authorization is required to read the page.

VerifyPeer true|false
Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
<http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html> for details. Enabled by default.

CACert file
File that holds one or more SSL certificates. If you want to use HTTPS you will
possibly need this option. What CA certificates come bundled with "libcurl" and are
checked by default depends on the distribution you use.

Header Header
A HTTP header to add to the request. Multiple headers are added if this option is
specified more than once.

Post Body
Specifies that the HTTP operation should be a POST instead of a GET. The complete data
to be posted is given as the argument. This option will usually need to be
accompanied by a Header option to set an appropriate "Content-Type" for the post body
(e.g. to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded").

MeasureResponseTime true|false
Measure response time for the request. If this setting is enabled, Match blocks (see
below) are optional. Disabled by default.

<Match>
One or more Match blocks that define how to match information in the data returned by
"libcurl". The "curl" plugin uses the same infrastructure that's used by the "tail"
plugin, so please see the documentation of the "tail" plugin below on how matches are
defined. If the MeasureResponseTime option is set to true, Match blocks are optional.

Plugin "curl_json"
The curl_json plugin collects values from JSON data to be parsed by libyajl
(<http://www.lloydforge.org/projects/yajl/>) retrieved via either libcurl
(<http://curl.haxx.se/>) or read directly from a unix socket. The former can be used, for
example, to collect values from CouchDB documents (which are stored JSON notation), and
the latter to collect values from a uWSGI stats socket.

The following example will collect several values from the built-in "_stats" runtime
statistics module of CouchDB (<http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Runtime_Statistics>).

<Plugin curl_json>
<URL "http://localhost:5984/_stats">
Instance "httpd"
<Key "httpd/requests/count">
Type "http_requests"
</Key>

<Key "httpd_request_methods/*/count">
Type "http_request_methods"
</Key>

<Key "httpd_status_codes/*/count">
Type "http_response_codes"
</Key>
</URL>
</Plugin>

This example will collect data directly from a uWSGI "Stats Server" socket.

<Plugin curl_json>
<Sock "/var/run/uwsgi.stats.sock">
Instance "uwsgi"
<Key "workers/*/requests">
Type "http_requests"
</Key>

<Key "workers/*/apps/*/requests">
Type "http_requests"
</Key>
</Sock>
</Plugin>

In the Plugin block, there may be one or more URL blocks, each defining a URL to be
fetched via HTTP (using libcurl) or Sock blocks defining a unix socket to read JSON from
directly. Each of these blocks may have one or more Key blocks.

The Key string argument must be in a path format. Each component is used to match the key
from a JSON map or the index of an JSON array. If a path component of a Key is a
* wildcard, the values for all map keys or array indices will be collectd.

The following options are valid within URL blocks:

Instance Instance
Sets the plugin instance to Instance.

User Name =item Password Password =item VerifyPeer true|false =item VerifyHost true|false
=item CACert file =item Header Header =item Post Body
These options behave exactly equivalent to the appropriate options of the cURL plugin.
Please see there for a detailed description.

The following options are valid within Key blocks:

Type Type
Sets the type used to dispatch the values to the daemon. Detailed information about
types and their configuration can be found in types.db(5). This option is mandatory.

Instance Instance
Type-instance to use. Defaults to the current map key or current string array element
value.

Plugin "curl_xml"
The curl_xml plugin uses libcurl (<http://curl.haxx.se/>) and libxml2
(<http://xmlsoft.org/>) to retrieve XML data via cURL.

<Plugin "curl_xml">
<URL "http://localhost/stats.xml">
Host "my_host"
Instance "some_instance"
User "collectd"
Password "thaiNg0I"
VerifyPeer true
VerifyHost true
CACert "/path/to/ca.crt"

<XPath "table[@id=\"magic_level\"]/tr">
Type "magic_level"
#InstancePrefix "prefix-"
InstanceFrom "td[1]"
ValuesFrom "td[2]/span[@class=\"level\"]"
</XPath>
</URL>
</Plugin>

In the Plugin block, there may be one or more URL blocks, each defining a URL to be
fetched using libcurl. Within each URL block there are options which specify the
connection parameters, for example authentication information, and one or more XPath
blocks.

Each XPath block specifies how to get one type of information. The string argument must be
a valid XPath expression which returns a list of "base elements". One value is dispatched
for each "base element". The type instance and values are looked up using further XPath
expressions that should be relative to the base element.

Within the URL block the following options are accepted:

Host Name
Use Name as the host name when submitting values. Defaults to the global host name
setting.

Instance Instance
Use Instance as the plugin instance when submitting values. Defaults to an empty
string (no plugin instance).

Namespace Prefix URL
If an XPath expression references namespaces, they must be specified with this option.
Prefix is the "namespace prefix" used in the XML document. URL is the "namespace
name", an URI reference uniquely identifying the namespace. The option can be repeated
to register multiple namespaces.

Examples:

Namespace "s" "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
Namespace "m" "http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"

User User
Password Password
VerifyPeer true|false
VerifyHost true|false
CACert CA Cert File
Header Header
Post Body
These options behave exactly equivalent to the appropriate options of the cURL plugin.
Please see there for a detailed description.

<XPath XPath-expression>
Within each URL block, there must be one or more XPath blocks. Each XPath block
specifies how to get one type of information. The string argument must be a valid
XPath expression which returns a list of "base elements". One value is dispatched for
each "base element".

Within the XPath block the following options are accepted:

Type Type
Specifies the Type used for submitting patches. This determines the number of
values that are required / expected and whether the strings are parsed as signed
or unsigned integer or as double values. See types.db(5) for details. This option
is required.

InstancePrefix InstancePrefix
Prefix the type instance with InstancePrefix. The values are simply concatenated
together without any separator. This option is optional.

InstanceFrom InstanceFrom
Specifies a XPath expression to use for determining the type instance. The XPath
expression must return exactly one element. The element's value is then used as
type instance, possibly prefixed with InstancePrefix (see above).

This value is required. As a special exception, if the "base XPath expression"
(the argument to the XPath block) returns exactly one argument, then this option
may be omitted.

ValuesFrom ValuesFrom [ValuesFrom ...]
Specifies one or more XPath expression to use for reading the values. The number
of XPath expressions must match the number of data sources in the type specified
with Type (see above). Each XPath expression must return exactly one element. The
element's value is then parsed as a number and used as value for the appropriate
value in the value list dispatched to the daemon.

Plugin "dbi"
This plugin uses the dbi library (<http://libdbi.sourceforge.net/>) to connect to various
databases, execute SQL statements and read back the results. dbi is an acronym for
"database interface" in case you were wondering about the name. You can configure how each
column is to be interpreted and the plugin will generate one or more data sets from each
row returned according to these rules.

Because the plugin is very generic, the configuration is a little more complex than those
of other plugins. It usually looks something like this:

<Plugin dbi>
<Query "out_of_stock">
Statement "SELECT category, COUNT(*) AS value FROM products WHERE in_stock = 0 GROUP BY category"
# Use with MySQL 5.0.0 or later
MinVersion 50000
<Result>
Type "gauge"
InstancePrefix "out_of_stock"
InstancesFrom "category"
ValuesFrom "value"
</Result>
</Query>
<Database "product_information">
Driver "mysql"
DriverOption "host" "localhost"
DriverOption "username" "collectd"
DriverOption "password" "aZo6daiw"
DriverOption "dbname" "prod_info"
SelectDB "prod_info"
Query "out_of_stock"
</Database>
</Plugin>

The configuration above defines one query with one result and one database. The query is
then linked to the database with the Query option within the <Database> block. You can
have any number of queries and databases and you can also use the Include statement to
split up the configuration file in multiple, smaller files. However, the <Query> block
must precede the <Database> blocks, because the file is interpreted from top to bottom!

The following is a complete list of options:

Query blocks

Query blocks define SQL statements and how the returned data should be interpreted. They
are identified by the name that is given in the opening line of the block. Thus the name
needs to be unique. Other than that, the name is not used in collectd.

In each Query block, there is one or more Result blocks. Result blocks define which column
holds which value or instance information. You can use multiple Result blocks to create
multiple values from one returned row. This is especially useful, when queries take a long
time and sending almost the same query again and again is not desirable.

Example:

<Query "environment">
Statement "select station, temperature, humidity from environment"
<Result>
Type "temperature"
# InstancePrefix "foo"
InstancesFrom "station"
ValuesFrom "temperature"
</Result>
<Result>
Type "humidity"
InstancesFrom "station"
ValuesFrom "humidity"
</Result>
</Query>

The following options are accepted:

Statement SQL
Sets the statement that should be executed on the server. This is not interpreted by
collectd, but simply passed to the database server. Therefore, the SQL dialect that's
used depends on the server collectd is connected to.

The query has to return at least two columns, one for the instance and one value. You
cannot omit the instance, even if the statement is guaranteed to always return exactly
one line. In that case, you can usually specify something like this:

Statement "SELECT \"instance\", COUNT(*) AS value FROM table"

(That works with MySQL but may not be valid SQL according to the spec. If you use a
more strict database server, you may have to select from a dummy table or something.)

Please note that some databases, for example Oracle, will fail if you include a
semicolon at the end of the statement.

MinVersion Version
MaxVersion Value
Only use this query for the specified database version. You can use these options to
provide multiple queries with the same name but with a slightly different syntax. The
plugin will use only those queries, where the specified minimum and maximum versions
fit the version of the database in use.

The database version is determined by "dbi_conn_get_engine_version", see the libdbi
documentation <http://libdbi.sourceforge.net/docs/programmers-guide/reference-
conn.html#DBI-CONN-GET-ENGINE-VERSION> for details. Basically, each part of the
version is assumed to be in the range from 00 to 99 and all dots are removed. So
version "4.1.2" becomes "40102", version "5.0.42" becomes "50042".

Warning: The plugin will use all matching queries, so if you specify multiple queries
with the same name and overlapping ranges, weird stuff will happen. Don't to it! A
valid example would be something along these lines:

MinVersion 40000
MaxVersion 49999
...
MinVersion 50000
MaxVersion 50099
...
MinVersion 50100
# No maximum

In the above example, there are three ranges that don't overlap. The last one goes
from version "5.1.0" to infinity, meaning "all later versions". Versions before
"4.0.0" are not specified.

Type Type
The type that's used for each line returned. See types.db(5) for more details on how
types are defined. In short: A type is a predefined layout of data and the number of
values and type of values has to match the type definition.

If you specify "temperature" here, you need exactly one gauge column. If you specify
"if_octets", you will need two counter columns. See the ValuesFrom setting below.

There must be exactly one Type option inside each Result block.

InstancePrefix prefix
Prepends prefix to the type instance. If InstancesFrom (see below) is not given, the
string is simply copied. If InstancesFrom is given, prefix and all strings returned in
the appropriate columns are concatenated together, separated by dashes ("-").

InstancesFrom column0 [column1 ...]
Specifies the columns whose values will be used to create the "type-instance" for each
row. If you specify more than one column, the value of all columns will be joined
together with dashes ("-") as separation characters.

The plugin itself does not check whether or not all built instances are different.
It's your responsibility to assure that each is unique. This is especially true, if
you do not specify InstancesFrom: You have to make sure that only one row is returned
in this case.

If neither InstancePrefix nor InstancesFrom is given, the type-instance will be empty.

ValuesFrom column0 [column1 ...]
Names the columns whose content is used as the actual data for the data sets that are
dispatched to the daemon. How many such columns you need is determined by the Type
setting above. If you specify too many or not enough columns, the plugin will complain
about that and no data will be submitted to the daemon.

The actual data type in the columns is not that important. The plugin will
automatically cast the values to the right type if it know how to do that. So it
should be able to handle integer an floating point types, as well as strings (if they
include a number at the beginning).

There must be at least one ValuesFrom option inside each Result block.

Database blocks

Database blocks define a connection to a database and which queries should be sent to that
database. Since the used "dbi" library can handle a wide variety of databases, the
configuration is very generic. If in doubt, refer to libdbi's documentation - we stick as
close to the terminology used there.

Each database needs a "name" as string argument in the starting tag of the block. This
name will be used as "PluginInstance" in the values submitted to the daemon. Other than
that, that name is not used.

Driver Driver
Specifies the driver to use to connect to the database. In many cases those drivers
are named after the database they can connect to, but this is not a technical
necessity. These drivers are sometimes referred to as "DBD", DataBase Driver, and some
distributions ship them in separate packages. Drivers for the "dbi" library are
developed by the libdbi-drivers project at <http://libdbi-drivers.sourceforge.net/>.

You need to give the driver name as expected by the "dbi" library here. You should be
able to find that in the documentation for each driver. If you mistype the driver
name, the plugin will dump a list of all known driver names to the log.

DriverOption Key Value
Sets driver-specific options. What option a driver supports can be found in the
documentation for each driver, somewhere at <http://libdbi-drivers.sourceforge.net/>.
However, the options "host", "username", "password", and "dbname" seem to be de facto
standards.

DBDs can register two types of options: String options and numeric options. The plugin
will use the "dbi_conn_set_option" function when the configuration provides a string
and the "dbi_conn_require_option_numeric" function when the configuration provides a
number. So these two lines will actually result in different calls being used:

DriverOption "Port" 1234 # numeric
DriverOption "Port" "1234" # string

Unfortunately, drivers are not too keen to report errors when an unknown option is
passed to them, so invalid settings here may go unnoticed. This is not the plugin's
fault, it will report errors if it gets them from the library / the driver. If a
driver complains about an option, the plugin will dump a complete list of all options
understood by that driver to the log. There is no way to programatically find out if
an option expects a string or a numeric argument, so you will have to refer to the
appropriate DBD's documentation to find this out. Sorry.

SelectDB Database
In some cases, the database name you connect with is not the database name you want to
use for querying data. If this option is set, the plugin will "select" (switch to)
that database after the connection is established.

Query QueryName
Associates the query named QueryName with this database connection. The query needs to
be defined before this statement, i. e. all query blocks you want to refer to must be
placed above the database block you want to refer to them from.

Host Hostname
Sets the host field of value lists to Hostname when dispatching values. Defaults to
the global hostname setting.

Plugin "df"
Device Device
Select partitions based on the devicename.

MountPoint Directory
Select partitions based on the mountpoint.

FSType FSType
Select partitions based on the filesystem type.

IgnoreSelected true|false
Invert the selection: If set to true, all partitions except the ones that match any
one of the criteria are collected. By default only selected partitions are collected
if a selection is made. If no selection is configured at all, all partitions are
selected.

ReportByDevice true|false
Report using the device name rather than the mountpoint. i.e. with this false, (the
default), it will report a disk as "root", but with it true, it will be "sda1" (or
whichever).

ReportInodes true|false
Enables or disables reporting of free, reserved and used inodes. Defaults to inode
collection being disabled.

Enable this option if inodes are a scarce resource for you, usually because many small
files are stored on the disk. This is a usual scenario for mail transfer agents and
web caches.

ValuesAbsolute true|false
Enables or disables reporting of free, used and used disk space in 1K-blocks.
Defaults to true.

ValuesPercentage true|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.

Plugin "disk"
The "disk" plugin collects information about the usage of physical disks and logical disks
(partitions). Values collected are the number of octets written to and read from a disk or
partition, the number of read/write operations issued to the disk and a rather complex
"time" it took for these commands to be issued.

Using the following two options you can ignore some disks or configure the collection only
of specific disks.

Disk Name
Select the disk Name. Whether it is collected or ignored depends on the IgnoreSelected
setting, see below. As with other plugins that use the daemon's ignorelist
functionality, a string that starts and ends with a slash is interpreted as a regular
expression. Examples:

Disk "sdd"
Disk "/hda[34]/"

IgnoreSelected true|false
Sets whether selected disks, i. e. the ones matches by any of the Disk statements, are
ignored or if all other disks are ignored. The behavior (hopefully) is intuitive: If
no Disk option is configured, all disks are collected. If at least one Disk option is
given and no IgnoreSelected or set to false, only matching disks will be collected. If
IgnoreSelected is set to true, all disks are collected except the ones matched.

Plugin "dns"
Interface Interface
The dns plugin uses libpcap to capture dns traffic and analyzes it. This option sets
the interface that should be used. If this option is not set, or set to "any", the
plugin will try to get packets from all interfaces. This may not work on certain
platforms, such as Mac OS X.

IgnoreSource IP-address
Ignore packets that originate from this address.

SelectNumericQueryTypes true|false
Enabled by default, collects unknown (and thus presented as numeric only) query types.

Plugin "email"
SocketFile Path
Sets the socket-file which is to be created.

SocketGroup Group
If running as root change the group of the UNIX-socket after it has been created.
Defaults to collectd.

SocketPerms Permissions
Change the file permissions of the UNIX-socket after it has been created. The
permissions must be given as a numeric, octal value as you would pass to chmod(1).
Defaults to 0770.

MaxConns Number
Sets the maximum number of connections that can be handled in parallel. Since this
many threads will be started immediately setting this to a very high value will waste
valuable resources. Defaults to 5 and will be forced to be at most 16384 to prevent
typos and dumb mistakes.

Plugin "ethstat"
The ethstat plugin collects information about network interface cards (NICs) by talking
directly with the underlying kernel driver using ioctl(2).

Synopsis:

<Plugin "ethstat">
Interface "eth0"
Map "rx_csum_offload_errors" "if_rx_errors" "checksum_offload"
Map "multicast" "if_multicast"
</Plugin>

Options:

Interface Name
Collect statistical information about interface Name.

Map Name Type [TypeInstance]
By default, the plugin will submit values as type "derive" and type instance set to
Name, the name of the metric as reported by the driver. If an appropriate Map option
exists, the given Type and, optionally, TypeInstance will be used.

MappedOnly true|false
When set to true, only metrics that can be mapped to to a type will be collected, all
other metrics will be ignored. Defaults to false.

Plugin "exec"
Please make sure to read collectd-exec(5) before using this plugin. It contains valuable
information on when the executable is executed and the output that is expected from it.

Exec User[:[Group]] Executable [<arg> [<arg> ...]]
NotificationExec User[:[Group]] Executable [<arg> [<arg> ...]]
Execute the executable Executable as user User. If the user name is followed by a
colon and a group name, the effective group is set to that group. The real group and
saved-set group will be set to the default group of that user. If no group is given
the effective group ID will be the same as the real group ID.

Please note that in order to change the user and/or group the daemon needs superuser
privileges. If the daemon is run as an unprivileged user you must specify the same
user/group here. If the daemon is run with superuser privileges, you must supply a
non-root user here.

The executable may be followed by optional arguments that are passed to the program.
Please note that due to the configuration parsing numbers and boolean values may be
changed. If you want to be absolutely sure that something is passed as-is please
enclose it in quotes.

The Exec and NotificationExec statements change the semantics of the programs
executed, i. e. the data passed to them and the response expected from them. This is
documented in great detail in collectd-exec(5).

Plugin "filecount"
The "filecount" plugin counts the number of files in a certain directory (and its
subdirectories) and their combined size. The configuration is very straight forward:

<Plugin "filecount">
<Directory "/var/qmail/queue/mess">
Instance "qmail-message"
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/qmail/queue/todo">
Instance "qmail-todo"
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/lib/php5">
Instance "php5-sessions"
Name "sess_*"
</Directory>
</Plugin>

The example above counts the number of files in QMail's queue directories and the number
of PHP5 sessions. Jfiy: The "todo" queue holds the messages that QMail has not yet looked
at, the "message" queue holds the messages that were classified into "local" and "remote".

As you can see, the configuration consists of one or more "Directory" blocks, each of
which specifies a directory in which to count the files. Within those blocks, the
following options are recognized:

Instance Instance
Sets the plugin instance to Instance. That instance name must be unique, but it's your
responsibility, the plugin doesn't check for that. If not given, the instance is set
to the directory name with all slashes replaced by underscores and all leading
underscores removed.

Name Pattern
Only count files that match Pattern, where Pattern is a shell-like wildcard as
understood by fnmatch(3). Only the filename is checked against the pattern, not the
entire path. In case this makes it easier for you: This option has been named after
the -name parameter to find(1).

MTime Age
Count only files of a specific age: If Age is greater than zero, only files that
haven't been touched in the last Age seconds are counted. If Age is a negative number,
this is inversed. For example, if -60 is specified, only files that have been modified
in the last minute will be counted.

The number can also be followed by a "multiplier" to easily specify a larger timespan.
When given in this notation, the argument must in quoted, i. e. must be passed as
string. So the -60 could also be written as "-1m" (one minute). Valid multipliers are
"s" (second), "m" (minute), "h" (hour), "d" (day), "w" (week), and "y" (year). There
is no "month" multiplier. You can also specify fractional numbers, e. g. "0.5d" is
identical to "12h".

Size Size
Count only files of a specific size. When Size is a positive number, only files that
are at least this big are counted. If Size is a negative number, this is inversed,
i. e. only files smaller than the absolute value of Size are counted.

As with the MTime option, a "multiplier" may be added. For a detailed description see
above. Valid multipliers here are "b" (byte), "k" (kilobyte), "m" (megabyte), "g"
(gigabyte), "t" (terabyte), and "p" (petabyte). Please note that there are 1000 bytes
in a kilobyte, not 1024.

Recursive true|false
Controls whether or not to recurse into subdirectories. Enabled by default.

IncludeHidden true|false
Controls whether or not to include "hidden" files and directories in the count.
"Hidden" files and directories are those, whose name begins with a dot. Defaults to
false, i.e. by default hidden files and directories are ignored.

Plugin "GenericJMX"
The GenericJMX plugin is written in Java and therefore documented in collectd-java(5).

Plugin "gmond"
The gmond plugin received the multicast traffic sent by gmond, the statistics collection
daemon of Ganglia. Mappings for the standard "metrics" are built-in, custom mappings may
be added via Metric blocks, see below.

Synopsis:

<Plugin "gmond">
MCReceiveFrom "239.2.11.71" "8649"
<Metric "swap_total">
Type "swap"
TypeInstance "total"
DataSource "value"
</Metric>
<Metric "swap_free">
Type "swap"
TypeInstance "free"
DataSource "value"
</Metric>
</Plugin>

The following metrics are built-in:

• load_one, load_five, load_fifteen

• cpu_user, cpu_system, cpu_idle, cpu_nice, cpu_wio

• mem_free, mem_shared, mem_buffers, mem_cached, mem_total

• bytes_in, bytes_out

• pkts_in, pkts_out

Available configuration options:

MCReceiveFrom MCGroup [Port]
Sets sets the multicast group and UDP port to which to subscribe.

Default: 239.2.11.71 / 8649

<Metric Name>
These blocks add a new metric conversion to the internal table. Name, the string
argument to the Metric block, is the metric name as used by Ganglia.

Type Type
Type to map this metric to. Required.

TypeInstance Instance
Type-instance to use. Optional.

DataSource Name
Data source to map this metric to. If the configured type has exactly one data
source, this is optional. Otherwise the option is required.

Plugin "hddtemp"
To get values from hddtemp collectd connects to localhost (127.0.0.1), port 7634/tcp. The
Host and Port options can be used to change these default values, see below. "hddtemp" has
to be running to work correctly. If "hddtemp" is not running timeouts may appear which may
interfere with other statistics..

The hddtemp homepage can be found at <http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php>.

Host Hostname
Hostname to connect to. Defaults to 127.0.0.1.

Port Port
TCP-Port to connect to. Defaults to 7634.

Plugin "interface"
Interface Interface
Select this interface. By default these interfaces will then be collected. For a more
detailed description see IgnoreSelected below.

IgnoreSelected true|false
If no configuration if given, the traffic-plugin will collect data from all
interfaces. This may not be practical, especially for loopback- and similar
interfaces. Thus, you can use the Interface-option to pick the interfaces you're
interested in. Sometimes, however, it's easier/preferred to collect all interfaces
except a few ones. This option enables you to do that: By setting IgnoreSelected to
true the effect of Interface is inverted: All selected interfaces are ignored and all
other interfaces are collected.

Plugin "ipmi"
Sensor Sensor
Selects sensors to collect or to ignore, depending on IgnoreSelected.

IgnoreSelected true|false
If no configuration if given, the ipmi plugin will collect data from all sensors found
of type "temperature", "voltage", "current" and "fanspeed". This option enables you
to do that: By setting IgnoreSelected to true the effect of Sensor is inverted: All
selected sensors are ignored and all other sensors are collected.

NotifySensorAdd true|false
If a sensor appears after initialization time of a minute a notification is sent.

NotifySensorRemove true|false
If a sensor disappears a notification is sent.

NotifySensorNotPresent true|false
If you have for example dual power supply and one of them is (un)plugged then a
notification is sent.

Plugin "iptables"
Chain Table Chain [Comment|Number [Name]]
Select the rules to count. If only Table and Chain are given, this plugin will collect
the counters of all rules which have a comment-match. The comment is then used as
type-instance.

If Comment or Number is given, only the rule with the matching comment or the nth rule
will be collected. Again, the comment (or the number) will be used as the type-
instance.

If Name is supplied, it will be used as the type-instance instead of the comment or
the number.

Plugin "irq"
Irq Irq
Select this irq. By default these irqs will then be collected. For a more detailed
description see IgnoreSelected below.

IgnoreSelected true|false
If no configuration if given, the irq-plugin will collect data from all irqs. This may
not be practical, especially if no interrupts happen. Thus, you can use the Irq-option
to pick the interrupt you're interested in. Sometimes, however, it's easier/preferred
to collect all interrupts except a few ones. This option enables you to do that: By
setting IgnoreSelected to true the effect of Irq is inverted: All selected interrupts
are ignored and all other interrupts are collected.

Plugin "java"
The Java plugin makes it possible to write extensions for collectd in Java. This section
only discusses the syntax and semantic of the configuration options. For more in-depth
information on the Java plugin, please read collectd-java(5).

Synopsis:

<Plugin "java">
JVMArg "-verbose:jni"
JVMArg "-Djava.class.path=/opt/collectd/lib/collectd/bindings/java"
LoadPlugin "org.collectd.java.Foobar"
<Plugin "org.collectd.java.Foobar">
# To be parsed by the plugin
</Plugin>
</Plugin>

Available configuration options:

JVMArg Argument
Argument that is to be passed to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). This works exactly
the way the arguments to the java binary on the command line work. Execute
"java --help" for details.

Please note that all these options must appear before (i. e. above) any other options!
When another option is found, the JVM will be started and later options will have to
be ignored!

LoadPlugin JavaClass
Instantiates a new JavaClass object. The constructor of this object very likely then
registers one or more callback methods with the server.

See collectd-java(5) for details.

When the first such option is found, the virtual machine (JVM) is created. This means
that all JVMArg options must appear before (i. e. above) all LoadPlugin options!

Plugin Name
The entire block is passed to the Java plugin as an org.collectd.api.OConfigItem
object.

For this to work, the plugin has to register a configuration callback first, see
"config callback" in collectd-java(5). This means, that the Plugin block must appear
after the appropriate LoadPlugin block. Also note, that Name depends on the (Java)
plugin registering the callback and is completely independent from the JavaClass
argument passed to LoadPlugin.

Plugin "libvirt"
This plugin allows CPU, disk and network load to be collected for virtualized guests on
the machine. This means that these characteristics can be collected for guest systems
without installing any software on them - collectd only runs on the hosting system. The
statistics are collected through libvirt (<http://libvirt.org/>).

Only Connection is required.

Connection uri
Connect to the hypervisor given by uri. For example if using Xen use:

Connection "xen:///"

Details which URIs allowed are given at <http://libvirt.org/uri.html>.

RefreshInterval seconds
Refresh the list of domains and devices every seconds. The default is 60 seconds.
Setting this to be the same or smaller than the Interval will cause the list of
domains and devices to be refreshed on every iteration.

Refreshing the devices in particular is quite a costly operation, so if your
virtualization setup is static you might consider increasing this. If this option is
set to 0, refreshing is disabled completely.

Domain name
BlockDevice name:dev
InterfaceDevice name:dev
IgnoreSelected true|false
Select which domains and devices are collected.

If IgnoreSelected is not given or false then only the listed domains and disk/network
devices are collected.

If IgnoreSelected is true then the test is reversed and the listed domains and
disk/network devices are ignored, while the rest are collected.

The domain name and device names may use a regular expression, if the name is
surrounded by /.../ and collectd was compiled with support for regexps.

The default is to collect statistics for all domains and all their devices.

Example:

BlockDevice "/:hdb/"
IgnoreSelected "true"

Ignore all hdb devices on any domain, but other block devices (eg. hda) will be
collected.

HostnameFormat name|uuid|hostname|...
When the libvirt plugin logs data, it sets the hostname of the collected data
according to this setting. The default is to use the guest name as provided by the
hypervisor, which is equal to setting name.

uuid means use the guest's UUID. This is useful if you want to track the same guest
across migrations.

hostname means to use the global Hostname setting, which is probably not useful on its
own because all guests will appear to have the same name.

You can also specify combinations of these fields. For example name uuid means to
concatenate the guest name and UUID (with a literal colon character between, thus
"foo:1234-1234-1234-1234").

InterfaceFormat name|address
When the libvirt plugin logs interface data, it sets the name of the collected data
according to this setting. The default is to use the path as provided by the
hypervisor (the "dev" property of the target node), which is equal to setting name.

address means use the interface's mac address. This is useful since the interface path
might change between reboots of a guest or across migrations.

Plugin "logfile"
LogLevel debug|info|notice|warning|err
Sets the log-level. If, for example, set to notice, then all events with severity
notice, warning, or err will be written to the logfile.

Please note that debug is only available if collectd has been compiled with debugging
support.

File File
Sets the file to write log messages to. The special strings stdout and stderr can be
used to write to the standard output and standard error channels, respectively. This,
of course, only makes much sense when collectd is running in foreground- or non-
daemon-mode.

Timestamp true|false
Prefix all lines printed by the current time. Defaults to true.

PrintSeverity true|false
When enabled, all lines are prefixed by the severity of the log message, for example
"warning". Defaults to false.

Note: There is no need to notify the daemon after moving or removing the log file (e. g.
when rotating the logs). The plugin reopens the file for each line it writes.

Plugin "lpar"
The LPAR plugin reads CPU statistics of Logical Partitions, a virtualization technique for
IBM POWER processors. It takes into account CPU time stolen from or donated to a
partition, in addition to the usual user, system, I/O statistics.

The following configuration options are available:

CpuPoolStats false|true
When enabled, statistics about the processor pool are read, too. The partition needs
to have pool authority in order to be able to acquire this information. Defaults to
false.

ReportBySerial false|true
If enabled, the serial of the physical machine the partition is currently running on
is reported as hostname and the logical hostname of the machine is reported in the
plugin instance. Otherwise, the logical hostname will be used (just like other
plugins) and the plugin instance will be empty. Defaults to false.

Plugin "mbmon"
The "mbmon plugin" uses mbmon to retrieve temperature, voltage, etc.

Be default collectd connects to localhost (127.0.0.1), port 411/tcp. The Host and Port
options can be used to change these values, see below. "mbmon" has to be running to work
correctly. If "mbmon" is not running timeouts may appear which may interfere with other
statistics..

"mbmon" must be run with the -r option ("print TAG and Value format"); Debian's
/etc/init.d/mbmon script already does this, other people will need to ensure that this is
the case.

Host Hostname
Hostname to connect to. Defaults to 127.0.0.1.

Port Port
TCP-Port to connect to. Defaults to 411.

Plugin "md"
The "md plugin" collects information from Linux Software-RAID devices (md).

All reported values are of the type "md_disks". Reported type instances are active, failed
(present but not operational), spare (hot stand-by) and missing (physically absent) disks.

Device Device
Select md devices based on device name. The device name is the basename of the device,
i.e. the name of the block device without the leading "/dev/". See IgnoreSelected for
more details.

IgnoreSelected true|false
Invert device selection: If set to true, all md devices except those listed using
Device are collected. If false (the default), only those listed are collected. If no
configuration is given, the md plugin will collect data from all md devices.

Plugin "memcachec"
The "memcachec plugin" connects to a memcached server, queries one or more given pages and
parses the returned data according to user specification. The matches used are the same
as the matches used in the "curl" and "tail" plugins.

In order to talk to the memcached server, this plugin uses the libmemcached library.
Please note that there is another library with a very similar name, libmemcache (notice
the missing `d'), which is not applicable.

Synopsis of the configuration:

<Plugin "memcachec">
<Page "plugin_instance">
Server "localhost"
Key "page_key"
<Match>
Regex "(\\d+) bytes sent"
DSType CounterAdd
Type "ipt_octets"
Instance "type_instance"
</Match>
</Page>
</Plugin>

The configuration options are:

<Page Name>
Each Page block defines one page to be queried from the memcached server. The block
requires one string argument which is used as plugin instance.

Server Address
Sets the server address to connect to when querying the page. Must be inside a Page
block.

Key Key
When connected to the memcached server, asks for the page Key.

<Match>
Match blocks define which strings to look for and how matches substrings are
interpreted. For a description of match blocks, please see "Plugin tail".

Plugin "memcached"
The memcached plugin connects to a memcached server and queries statistics about cache
utilization, memory and bandwidth used. <http://www.danga.com/memcached/>

<Plugin "memcached">
<Instance "name">
Host "memcache.example.com"
Port 11211
</Instance>
</Plugin>

The plugin configuration consists of one or more Instance blocks which specify one
memcached connection each. Within the Instance blocks, the following options are allowed:

Host Hostname
Hostname to connect to. Defaults to 127.0.0.1.

Port Port
TCP-Port to connect to. Defaults to 11211.

Socket Path
Connect to memcached using the UNIX domain socket at Path. If this setting is given,
the Host and Port settings are ignored.

Plugin "mic"
The mic plugin gathers CPU statistics, memory usage and temperatures from Intel's Many
Integrated Core (MIC) systems.

Synopsis:

<Plugin mic>
ShowCPU true
ShowCPUCores true
ShowMemory true

ShowTemperatures true
Temperature vddg
Temperature vddq
IgnoreSelectedTemperature true

ShowPower true
Power total0
Power total1
IgnoreSelectedPower true
</Plugin>

The following options are valid inside the Plugin mic block:

ShowCPU true|false
If enabled (the default) a sum of the CPU usage accross all cores is reported.

ShowCPUCores true|false
If enabled (the default) per-core CPU usage is reported.

ShowMemory true|false
If enabled (the default) the physical memory usage of the MIC system is reported.

ShowTemperatures true|false
If enabled (the default) various temperatures of the MIC system are reported.

Temperature Name
This option controls which temperatures are being reported. Whether matching
temperatures are being ignored or only matching temperatures are reported depends on
the IgnoreSelectedTemperature setting below. By default all temperatures are reported.

IgnoreSelectedTemperature false|true
Controls the behavior of the Temperature setting above. If set to false (the default)
only temperatures matching a Temperature option are reported or, if no Temperature
option is specified, all temperatures are reported. If set to true, matching
temperatures are ignored and all other temperatures are reported.

Known temperature names are:

die Die of the CPU

devmem
Device Memory

fin Fan In

fout
Fan Out

vccp
Voltage ccp

vddg
Voltage ddg

vddq
Voltage ddq

ShowPower true|false
If enabled (the default) various temperatures of the MIC system are reported.

Power Name
This option controls which power readings are being reported. Whether matching power
readings are being ignored or only matching power readings are reported depends on the
IgnoreSelectedPower setting below. By default all power readings are reported.

IgnoreSelectedPower false|true
Controls the behavior of the Power setting above. If set to false (the default) only
power readings matching a Power option are reported or, if no Power option is
specified, all power readings are reported. If set to true, matching power readings
are ignored and all other power readings are reported.

Known power names are:

total0
Total power utilization averaged over Time Window 0 (uWatts).

total1
Total power utilization averaged over Time Window 0 (uWatts).

inst
Instantaneous power (uWatts).

imax
Max instantaneous power (uWatts).

pcie
PCI-E connector power (uWatts).

c2x3
2x3 connector power (uWatts).

c2x4
2x4 connector power (uWatts).

vccp
Core rail (uVolts).

vddg
Uncore rail (uVolts).

vddq
Memory subsystem rail (uVolts).

Plugin "modbus"
The modbus plugin connects to a Modbus "slave" via Modbus/TCP and reads register values.
It supports reading single registers (unsigned 16 bit values), large integer values
(unsigned 32 bit values) and floating point values (two registers interpreted as IEEE
floats in big endian notation).

Synopsis:

<Data "voltage-input-1">
RegisterBase 0
RegisterType float
Type voltage
Instance "input-1"
</Data>

<Data "voltage-input-2">
RegisterBase 2
RegisterType float
Type voltage
Instance "input-2"
</Data>

<Host "modbus.example.com">
Address "192.168.0.42"
Port "502"
Interval 60

<Slave 1>
Instance "power-supply"
Collect "voltage-input-1"
Collect "voltage-input-2"
</Slave>
</Host>

<Data Name> blocks
Data blocks define a mapping between register numbers and the "types" used by
collectd.

Within <Data /> blocks, the following options are allowed:

RegisterBase Number
Configures the base register to read from the device. If the option RegisterType
has been set to Uint32 or Float, this and the next register will be read (the
register number is increased by one).

RegisterType Int16|Int32|Uint16|Uint32|Float
Specifies what kind of data is returned by the device. If the type is Int32,
Uint32 or Float, two 16 bit registers will be read and the data is combined into
one value. Defaults to Uint16.

Type Type
Specifies the "type" (data set) to use when dispatching the value to collectd.
Currently, only data sets with exactly one data source are supported.

Instance Instance
Sets the type instance to use when dispatching the value to collectd. If unset, an
empty string (no type instance) is used.

<Host Name> blocks
Host blocks are used to specify to which hosts to connect and what data to read from
their "slaves". The string argument Name is used as hostname when dispatching the
values to collectd.

Within <Host /> blocks, the following options are allowed:

Address Hostname
Specifies the node name (the actual network address) used to connect to the host.
This may be an IP address or a hostname. Please note that the used libmodbus
library only supports IPv4 at the moment.

Port Service
Specifies the port used to connect to the host. The port can either be given as a
number or as a service name. Please note that the Service argument must be a
string, even if ports are given in their numerical form. Defaults to "502".

Interval Interval
Sets the interval (in seconds) in which the values will be collected from this
host. By default the global Interval setting will be used.

<Slave ID>
Over each TCP connection, multiple Modbus devices may be reached. The slave ID is
used to specify which device should be addressed. For each device you want to
query, one Slave block must be given.

Within <Slave /> blocks, the following options are allowed:

Instance Instance
Specify the plugin instance to use when dispatching the values to collectd.
By default "slave_ID" is used.

Collect DataName
Specifies which data to retrieve from the device. DataName must be the same
string as the Name argument passed to a Data block. You can specify this
option multiple times to collect more than one value from a slave. At least
one Collect option is mandatory.

Plugin "mysql"
The "mysql plugin" requires mysqlclient to be installed. It connects to one or more
databases when started and keeps the connection up as long as possible. When the
connection is interrupted for whatever reason it will try to re-connect. The plugin will
complain loudly in case anything goes wrong.

This plugin issues the MySQL "SHOW STATUS" / "SHOW GLOBAL STATUS" command and collects
information about MySQL network traffic, executed statements, requests, the query cache
and threads by evaluating the "Bytes_{received,sent}", "Com_*", "Handler_*", "Qcache_*"
and "Threads_*" return values. Please refer to the MySQL reference manual, 5.1.6. Server
Status Variables for an explanation of these values.

Optionally, master and slave statistics may be collected in a MySQL replication setup. In
that case, information about the synchronization state of the nodes are collected by
evaluating the "Position" return value of the "SHOW MASTER STATUS" command and the
"Seconds_Behind_Master", "Read_Master_Log_Pos" and "Exec_Master_Log_Pos" return values of
the "SHOW SLAVE STATUS" command. See the MySQL reference manual, 12.5.5.21 SHOW MASTER
STATUS Syntax and 12.5.5.31 SHOW SLAVE STATUS Syntax for details.

Synopsis:

<Plugin mysql>
<Database foo>
Host "hostname"
User "username"
Password "password"
Port "3306"
MasterStats true
</Database>

<Database bar>
Host "localhost"
Socket "/var/run/mysql/mysqld.sock"
SlaveStats true
SlaveNotifications true
</Database>
</Plugin>

A Database block defines one connection to a MySQL database. It accepts a single argument
which specifies the name of the database. None of the other options are required. MySQL
will use default values as documented in the section "mysql_real_connect()" in the MySQL
reference manual.

Host Hostname
Hostname of the database server. Defaults to localhost.

User Username
Username to use when connecting to the database. The user does not have to be granted
any privileges (which is synonym to granting the "USAGE" privilege), unless you want
to collectd replication statistics (see MasterStats and SlaveStats below). In this
case, the user needs the "REPLICATION CLIENT" (or "SUPER") privileges. Else, any
existing MySQL user will do.

Password Password
Password needed to log into the database.

Database Database
Select this database. Defaults to no database which is a perfectly reasonable option
for what this plugin does.

Port Port
TCP-port to connect to. The port must be specified in its numeric form, but it must be
passed as a string nonetheless. For example:

Port "3306"

If Host is set to localhost (the default), this setting has no effect. See the
documentation for the "mysql_real_connect" function for details.

Socket Socket
Specifies the path to the UNIX domain socket of the MySQL server. This option only has
any effect, if Host is set to localhost (the default). Otherwise, use the Port option
above. See the documentation for the "mysql_real_connect" function for details.

MasterStats true|false
SlaveStats true|false
Enable the collection of master / slave statistics in a replication setup. In order to
be able to get access to these statistics, the user needs special privileges. See the
User documentation above.

SlaveNotifications true|false
If enabled, the plugin sends a notification if the replication slave I/O and / or SQL
threads are not running.

Plugin "netapp"
The netapp plugin can collect various performance and capacity information from a NetApp
filer using the NetApp API.

Please note that NetApp has a wide line of products and a lot of different software
versions for each of these products. This plugin was developed for a NetApp FAS3040
running OnTap 7.2.3P8 and tested on FAS2050 7.3.1.1L1, FAS3140 7.2.5.1 and FAS3020
7.2.4P9. It should work for most combinations of model and software version but it is very
hard to test this. If you have used this plugin with other models and/or software
version, feel free to send us a mail to tell us about the results, even if it's just a
short "It works".

To collect these data collectd will log in to the NetApp via HTTP(S) and HTTP basic
authentication.

Do not use a regular user for this! Create a special collectd user with just the minimum
of capabilities needed. The user only needs the "login-http-admin" capability as well as a
few more depending on which data will be collected. Required capabilities are documented
below.

Synopsis

<Plugin "netapp">
<Host "netapp1.example.com">
Protocol "https"
Address "10.0.0.1"
Port 443
User "username"
Password "aef4Aebe"
Interval 30

<WAFL>
Interval 30
GetNameCache true
GetDirCache true
GetBufferCache true
GetInodeCache true
</WAFL>

<Disks>
Interval 30
GetBusy true
</Disks>

<VolumePerf>
Interval 30
GetIO "volume0"
IgnoreSelectedIO false
GetOps "volume0"
IgnoreSelectedOps false
GetLatency "volume0"
IgnoreSelectedLatency false
</VolumePerf>

<VolumeUsage>
Interval 30
GetCapacity "vol0"
GetCapacity "vol1"
IgnoreSelectedCapacity false
GetSnapshot "vol1"
GetSnapshot "vol3"
IgnoreSelectedSnapshot false
</VolumeUsage>

<Quota>
Interval 60
</Quota>

<Snapvault>
Interval 30
</Snapvault>

<System>
Interval 30
GetCPULoad true
GetInterfaces true
GetDiskOps true
GetDiskIO true
</System>

<VFiler vfilerA>
Interval 60

SnapVault true
# ...
</VFiler>
</Host>
</Plugin>

The netapp plugin accepts the following configuration options:

Host Name
A host block defines one NetApp filer. It will appear in collectd with the name you
specify here which does not have to be its real name nor its hostname (see the Address
option below).

VFiler Name
A VFiler block may only be used inside a host block. It accepts all the same options
as the Host block (except for cascaded VFiler blocks) and will execute all NetApp API
commands in the context of the specified VFiler(R). It will appear in collectd with
the name you specify here which does not have to be its real name. The VFiler name may
be specified using the VFilerName option. If this is not specified, it will default to
the name you specify here.

The VFiler block inherits all connection related settings from the surrounding Host
block (which appear before the VFiler block) but they may be overwritten inside the
VFiler block.

This feature is useful, for example, when using a VFiler as SnapVault target
(supported since OnTap 8.1). In that case, the SnapVault statistics are not available
in the host filer (vfiler0) but only in the respective VFiler context.

Protocol httpd|http
The protocol collectd will use to query this host.

Optional

Type: string

Default: https

Valid options: http, https

Address Address
The hostname or IP address of the host.

Optional

Type: string

Default: The "host" block's name.

Port Port
The TCP port to connect to on the host.

Optional

Type: integer

Default: 80 for protocol "http", 443 for protocol "https"

User User
Password Password
The username and password to use to login to the NetApp.

Mandatory

Type: string

VFilerName Name
The name of the VFiler in which context to execute API commands. If not specified, the
name provided to the VFiler block will be used instead.

Optional

Type: string

Default: name of the VFiler block

Note: This option may only be used inside VFiler blocks.

Interval Interval
TODO

The following options decide what kind of data will be collected. You can either use them
as a block and fine tune various parameters inside this block, use them as a single
statement to just accept all default values, or omit it to not collect any data.

The following options are valid inside all blocks:

Interval Seconds
Collect the respective statistics every Seconds seconds. Defaults to the host specific
setting.

The System block

This will collect various performance data about the whole system.

Note: To get this data the collectd user needs the "api-perf-object-get-instances"
capability.

Interval Seconds
Collect disk statistics every Seconds seconds.

GetCPULoad true|false
If you set this option to true the current CPU usage will be read. This will be the
average usage between all CPUs in your NetApp without any information about individual
CPUs.

Note: These are the same values that the NetApp CLI command "sysstat" returns in the
"CPU" field.

Optional

Type: boolean

Default: true

Result: Two value lists of type "cpu", and type instances "idle" and "system".

GetInterfaces true|false
If you set this option to true the current traffic of the network interfaces will be
read. This will be the total traffic over all interfaces of your NetApp without any
information about individual interfaces.

Note: This is the same values that the NetApp CLI command "sysstat" returns in the
"Net kB/s" field.

Or is it?

Optional

Type: boolean

Default: true

Result: One value list of type "if_octects".

GetDiskIO true|false
If you set this option to true the current IO throughput will be read. This will be
the total IO of your NetApp without any information about individual disks, volumes or
aggregates.

Note: This is the same values that the NetApp CLI command "sysstat" returns in the
"Disk kB/s" field.

Optional

Type: boolean

Default: true

Result: One value list of type "disk_octets".

GetDiskOps true|false
If you set this option to true the current number of HTTP, NFS, CIFS, FCP, iSCSI, etc.
operations will be read. This will be the total number of operations on your NetApp
without any information about individual volumes or aggregates.

Note: These are the same values that the NetApp CLI command "sysstat" returns in the
"NFS", "CIFS", "HTTP", "FCP" and "iSCSI" fields.

Optional

Type: boolean

Default: true

Result: A variable number of value lists of type "disk_ops_complex". Each type of
operation will result in one value list with the name of the operation as type
instance.

The WAFL block

This will collect various performance data about the WAFL file system. At the moment this
just means cache performance.

Note: To get this data the collectd user needs the "api-perf-object-get-instances"
capability.

Note: The interface to get these values is classified as "Diagnostics" by NetApp. This
means that it is not guaranteed to be stable even between minor releases.

Interval Seconds
Collect disk statistics every Seconds seconds.

GetNameCache true|false
Optional

Type: boolean

Default: true

Result: One value list of type "cache_ratio" and type instance "name_cache_hit".

GetDirCache true|false
Optional

Type: boolean

Default: true

Result: One value list of type "cache_ratio" and type instance "find_dir_hit".

GetInodeCache true|false
Optional

Type: boolean

Default: true

Result: One value list of type "cache_ratio" and type instance "inode_cache_hit".

GetBufferCache true|false
Note: This is the same value that the NetApp CLI command "sysstat" returns in the
"Cache hit" field.

Optional

Type: boolean

Default: true

Result: One value list of type "cache_ratio" and type instance "buf_hash_hit".

The Disks block

This will collect performance data about the individual disks in the NetApp.

Note: To get this data the collectd user needs the "api-perf-object-get-instances"
capability.

Interval Seconds
Collect disk statistics every Seconds seconds.

GetBusy true|false
If you set this option to true the busy time of all disks will be calculated and the
value of the busiest disk in the system will be written.

Note: This is the same values that the NetApp CLI command "sysstat" returns in the
"Disk util" field. Probably.

Optional

Type: boolean

Default: true

Result: One value list of type "percent" and type instance "disk_busy".

The VolumePerf block

This will collect various performance data about the individual volumes.

You can select which data to collect about which volume using the following options. They
follow the standard ignorelist semantic.

Note: To get this data the collectd user needs the api-perf-object-get-instances
capability.

Interval Seconds
Collect volume performance data every Seconds seconds.

GetIO Volume
GetOps Volume
GetLatency Volume
Select the given volume for IO, operations or latency statistics collection. The
argument is the name of the volume without the "/vol/" prefix.

Since the standard ignorelist functionality is used here, you can use a string
starting and ending with a slash to specify regular expression matching: To match the
volumes "vol0", "vol2" and "vol7", you can use this regular expression:

GetIO "/^vol[027]$/"

If no regular expression is specified, an exact match is required. Both, regular and
exact matching are case sensitive.

If no volume was specified at all for either of the three options, that data will be
collected for all available volumes.

IgnoreSelectedIO true|false
IgnoreSelectedOps true|false
IgnoreSelectedLatency true|false
When set to true, the volumes selected for IO, operations or latency statistics
collection will be ignored and the data will be collected for all other volumes.

When set to false, data will only be collected for the specified volumes and all other
volumes will be ignored.

If no volumes have been specified with the above Get* options, all volumes will be
collected regardless of the IgnoreSelected* option.

Defaults to false

The VolumeUsage block

This will collect capacity data about the individual volumes.

Note: To get this data the collectd user needs the api-volume-list-info capability.

Interval Seconds
Collect volume usage statistics every Seconds seconds.

GetCapacity VolumeName
The current capacity of the volume will be collected. This will result in two to four
value lists, depending on the configuration of the volume. All data sources are of
type "df_complex" with the name of the volume as plugin_instance.

There will be type_instances "used" and "free" for the number of used and available
bytes on the volume. If the volume has some space reserved for snapshots, a
type_instance "snap_reserved" will be available. If the volume has SIS enabled, a
type_instance "sis_saved" will be available. This is the number of bytes saved by the
SIS feature.

Note: The current NetApp API has a bug that results in this value being reported as a
32 bit number. This plugin tries to guess the correct number which works most of the
time. If you see strange values here, bug NetApp support to fix this.

Repeat this option to specify multiple volumes.

IgnoreSelectedCapacity true|false
Specify whether to collect only the volumes selected by the GetCapacity option or to
ignore those volumes. IgnoreSelectedCapacity defaults to false. However, if no
GetCapacity option is specified at all, all capacities will be selected anyway.

GetSnapshot VolumeName
Select volumes from which to collect snapshot information.

Usually, the space used for snapshots is included in the space reported as "used". If
snapshot information is collected as well, the space used for snapshots is subtracted
from the used space.

To make things even more interesting, it is possible to reserve space to be used for
snapshots. If the space required for snapshots is less than that reserved space, there
is "reserved free" and "reserved used" space in addition to "free" and "used". If the
space required for snapshots exceeds the reserved space, that part allocated in the
normal space is subtracted from the "used" space again.

Repeat this option to specify multiple volumes.

IgnoreSelectedSnapshot
Specify whether to collect only the volumes selected by the GetSnapshot option or to
ignore those volumes. IgnoreSelectedSnapshot defaults to false. However, if no
GetSnapshot option is specified at all, all capacities will be selected anyway.

The Quota block

This will collect (tree) quota statistics (used disk space and number of used files). This
mechanism is useful to get usage information for single qtrees. In case the quotas are
not used for any other purpose, an entry similar to the following in "/etc/quotas" would
be sufficient:

/vol/volA/some_qtree tree - - - - -

After adding the entry, issue "quota on -w volA" on the NetApp filer.

Interval Seconds
Collect SnapVault(R) statistics every Seconds seconds.

The SnapVault block

This will collect statistics about the time and traffic of SnapVault(R) transfers.

Interval Seconds
Collect SnapVault(R) statistics every Seconds seconds.

Plugin "netlink"
The "netlink" plugin uses a netlink socket to query the Linux kernel about statistics of
various interface and routing aspects.

Interface Interface
VerboseInterface Interface
Instruct the plugin to collect interface statistics. This is basically the same as the
statistics provided by the "interface" plugin (see above) but potentially much more
detailed.

When configuring with Interface only the basic statistics will be collected, namely
octets, packets, and errors. These statistics are collected by the "interface" plugin,
too, so using both at the same time is no benefit.

When configured with VerboseInterface all counters except the basic ones, so that no
data needs to be collected twice if you use the "interface" plugin. This includes
dropped packets, received multicast packets, collisions and a whole zoo of
differentiated RX and TX errors. You can try the following command to get an idea of
what awaits you:

ip -s -s link list

If Interface is All, all interfaces will be selected.

QDisc Interface [QDisc]
Class Interface [Class]
Filter Interface [Filter]
Collect the octets and packets that pass a certain qdisc, class or filter.

QDiscs and classes are identified by their type and handle (or classid). Filters
don't necessarily have a handle, therefore the parent's handle is used. The notation
used in collectd differs from that used in tc(1) in that it doesn't skip the major or
minor number if it's zero and doesn't print special ids by their name. So, for
example, a qdisc may be identified by "pfifo_fast-1:0" even though the minor number of
all qdiscs is zero and thus not displayed by tc(1).

If QDisc, Class, or Filter is given without the second argument, i. .e. without an
identifier, all qdiscs, classes, or filters that are associated with that interface
will be collected.

Since a filter itself doesn't necessarily have a handle, the parent's handle is used.
This may lead to problems when more than one filter is attached to a qdisc or class.
This isn't nice, but we don't know how this could be done any better. If you have a
idea, please don't hesitate to tell us.

As with the Interface option you can specify All as the interface, meaning all
interfaces.

Here are some examples to help you understand the above text more easily:

<Plugin netlink>
VerboseInterface "All"
QDisc "eth0" "pfifo_fast-1:0"
QDisc "ppp0"
Class "ppp0" "htb-1:10"
Filter "ppp0" "u32-1:0"
</Plugin>

IgnoreSelected
The behavior is the same as with all other similar plugins: If nothing is selected at
all, everything is collected. If some things are selected using the options described
above, only these statistics are collected. If you set IgnoreSelected to true, this
behavior is inverted, i. e. the specified statistics will not be collected.

Plugin "network"
The Network plugin sends data to a remote instance of collectd, receives data from a
remote instance, or both at the same time. Data which has been received from the network
is usually not transmitted again, but this can be activated, see the Forward option below.

The default IPv6 multicast group is "ff18::efc0:4a42". The default IPv4 multicast group is
239.192.74.66. The default UDP port is 25826.

Both, Server and Listen can be used as single option or as block. When used as block,
given options are valid for this socket only. The following example will export the
metrics twice: Once to an "internal" server (without encryption and signing) and one to an
external server (with cryptographic signature):

<Plugin "network">
# Export to an internal server
# (demonstrates usage without additional options)
Server "collectd.internal.tld"

# Export to an external server
# (demonstrates usage with signature options)
<Server "collectd.external.tld">
SecurityLevel "sign"
Username "myhostname"
Password "ohl0eQue"
</Server>
</Plugin>

<Server Host [Port]>
The Server statement/block sets the server to send datagrams to. The statement may
occur multiple times to send each datagram to multiple destinations.

The argument Host may be a hostname, an IPv4 address or an IPv6 address. The optional
second argument specifies a port number or a service name. If not given, the default,
25826, is used.

The following options are recognized within Server blocks:

SecurityLevel Encrypt|Sign|None
Set the security you require for network communication. When the security level
has been set to Encrypt, data sent over the network will be encrypted using
AES-256. The integrity of encrypted packets is ensured using SHA-1. When set to
Sign, transmitted data is signed using the HMAC-SHA-256 message authentication
code. When set to None, data is sent without any security.

This feature is only available if the network plugin was linked with libgcrypt.

Username Username
Sets the username to transmit. This is used by the server to lookup the password.
See AuthFile below. All security levels except None require this setting.

This feature is only available if the network plugin was linked with libgcrypt.

Password Password
Sets a password (shared secret) for this socket. All security levels except None
require this setting.

This feature is only available if the network plugin was linked with libgcrypt.

Interface Interface name
Set the outgoing interface for IP packets. This applies at least to IPv6 packets
and if possible to IPv4. If this option is not applicable, undefined or a non-
existent interface name is specified, the default behavior is to let the kernel
choose the appropriate interface. Be warned that the manual selection of an
interface for unicast traffic is only necessary in rare cases.

<Listen Host [Port]>
The Listen statement sets the interfaces to bind to. When multiple statements are
found the daemon will bind to multiple interfaces.

The argument Host may be a hostname, an IPv4 address or an IPv6 address. If the
argument is a multicast address the daemon will join that multicast group. The
optional second argument specifies a port number or a service name. If not given, the
default, 25826, is used.

The following options are recognized within "<Listen>" blocks:

SecurityLevel Encrypt|Sign|None
Set the security you require for network communication. When the security level
has been set to Encrypt, only encrypted data will be accepted. The integrity of
encrypted packets is ensured using SHA-1. When set to Sign, only signed and
encrypted data is accepted. When set to None, all data will be accepted. If an
AuthFile option was given (see below), encrypted data is decrypted if possible.

This feature is only available if the network plugin was linked with libgcrypt.

AuthFile Filename
Sets a file in which usernames are mapped to passwords. These passwords are used
to verify signatures and to decrypt encrypted network packets. If SecurityLevel is
set to None, this is optional. If given, signed data is verified and encrypted
packets are decrypted. Otherwise, signed data is accepted without checking the
signature and encrypted data cannot be decrypted. For the other security levels
this option is mandatory.

The file format is very simple: Each line consists of a username followed by a
colon and any number of spaces followed by the password. To demonstrate, an
example file could look like this:

user0: foo
user1: bar

Each time a packet is received, the modification time of the file is checked using
stat(2). If the file has been changed, the contents is re-read. While the file is
being read, it is locked using fcntl(2).

Interface Interface name
Set the incoming interface for IP packets explicitly. This applies at least to
IPv6 packets and if possible to IPv4. If this option is not applicable, undefined
or a non-existent interface name is specified, the default behavior is, to let the
kernel choose the appropriate interface. Thus incoming traffic gets only accepted,
if it arrives on the given interface.

TimeToLive 1-255
Set the time-to-live of sent packets. This applies to all, unicast and multicast, and
IPv4 and IPv6 packets. The default is to not change this value. That means that
multicast packets will be sent with a TTL of 1 (one) on most operating systems.

MaxPacketSize 1024-65535
Set the maximum size for datagrams received over the network. Packets larger than this
will be truncated. Defaults to 1452 bytes, which is the maximum payload size that can
be transmitted in one Ethernet frame using IPv6 / UDP.

On the server side, this limit should be set to the largest value used on any client.
Likewise, the value on the client must not be larger than the value on the server, or
data will be lost.

Compatibility: Versions prior to version 4.8 used a fixed sized buffer of 1024 bytes.
Versions 4.8, 4.9 and 4.10 used a default value of 1024 bytes to avoid problems when
sending data to an older server.

Forward true|false
If set to true, write packets that were received via the network plugin to the sending
sockets. This should only be activated when the Listen- and Server-statements differ.
Otherwise packets may be send multiple times to the same multicast group. While this
results in more network traffic than necessary it's not a huge problem since the
plugin has a duplicate detection, so the values will not loop.

ReportStats true|false
The network plugin cannot only receive and send statistics, it can also create
statistics about itself. Collected data included the number of received and sent
octets and packets, the length of the receive queue and the number of values handled.
When set to true, the Network plugin will make these statistics available. Defaults to
false.

Plugin "nginx"
This plugin collects the number of connections and requests handled by the "nginx daemon"
(speak: engine X), a HTTP and mail server/proxy. It queries the page provided by the
"ngx_http_stub_status_module" module, which isn't compiled by default. Please refer to
<http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxStubStatusModule> for more information on how to compile
and configure nginx and this module.

The following options are accepted by the "nginx plugin":

URL http://host/nginx_status
Sets the URL of the "ngx_http_stub_status_module" output.

User Username
Optional user name needed for authentication.

Password Password
Optional password needed for authentication.

VerifyPeer true|false
Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
<http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html> for details. Enabled by default.

Plugin "notify_desktop"
This plugin sends a desktop notification to a notification daemon, as defined in the
Desktop Notification Specification. To actually display the notifications, notification-
daemon is required and collectd has to be able to access the X server (i. e., the
"DISPLAY" and "XAUTHORITY" environment variables have to be set correctly) and the D-Bus
message bus.

The Desktop Notification Specification can be found at
<http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/>.

OkayTimeout timeout
WarningTimeout timeout
FailureTimeout timeout
Set the timeout, in milliseconds, after which to expire the notification for "OKAY",
"WARNING" and "FAILURE" severities respectively. If zero has been specified, the
displayed notification will not be closed at all - the user has to do so herself.
These options default to 5000. If a negative number has been specified, the default is
used as well.

Plugin "notify_email"
The notify_email plugin uses the ESMTP library to send notifications to a configured email
address.

libESMTP is available from <http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/>.

Available configuration options:

From Address
Email address from which the emails should appear to come from.

Default: "root@localhost"

Recipient Address
Configures the email address(es) to which the notifications should be mailed. May be
repeated to send notifications to multiple addresses.

At least one Recipient must be present for the plugin to work correctly.

SMTPServer Hostname
Hostname of the SMTP server to connect to.

Default: "localhost"

SMTPPort Port
TCP port to connect to.

Default: 25

SMTPUser Username
Username for ASMTP authentication. Optional.

SMTPPassword Password
Password for ASMTP authentication. Optional.

Subject Subject
Subject-template to use when sending emails. There must be exactly two string-
placeholders in the subject, given in the standard printf(3) syntax, i. e. %s. The
first will be replaced with the severity, the second with the hostname.

Default: "Collectd notify: %s@%s"

Plugin "ntpd"
Host Hostname
Hostname of the host running ntpd. Defaults to localhost.

Port Port
UDP-Port to connect to. Defaults to 123.

ReverseLookups true|false
Sets whether or not to perform reverse lookups on peers. Since the name or IP-address
may be used in a filename it is recommended to disable reverse lookups. The default is
to do reverse lookups to preserve backwards compatibility, though.

IncludeUnitID true|false
When a peer is a refclock, include the unit ID in the type instance. Defaults to
false for backward compatibility.

If two refclock peers use the same driver and this is false, the plugin will try to
write simultaneous measurements from both to the same type instance. This will result
in error messages in the log and only one set of measurements making it through.

Plugin "nut"
UPS upsname@hostname[:port]
Add a UPS to collect data from. The format is identical to the one accepted by
upsc(8).

Plugin "olsrd"
The olsrd plugin connects to the TCP port opened by the txtinfo plugin of the Optimized
Link State Routing daemon and reads information about the current state of the meshed
network.

The following configuration options are understood:

Host Host
Connect to Host. Defaults to "localhost".

Port Port
Specifies the port to connect to. This must be a string, even if you give the port as
a number rather than a service name. Defaults to "2006".

CollectLinks No|Summary|Detail
Specifies what information to collect about links, i. e. direct connections of the
daemon queried. If set to No, no information is collected. If set to Summary, the
number of links and the average of all link quality (LQ) and neighbor link quality
(NLQ) values is calculated. If set to Detail LQ and NLQ are collected per link.

Defaults to Detail.

CollectRoutes No|Summary|Detail
Specifies what information to collect about routes of the daemon queried. If set to
No, no information is collected. If set to Summary, the number of routes and the
average metric and ETX is calculated. If set to Detail metric and ETX are collected
per route.

Defaults to Summary.

CollectTopology No|Summary|Detail
Specifies what information to collect about the global topology. If set to No, no
information is collected. If set to Summary, the number of links in the entire
topology and the average link quality (LQ) is calculated. If set to Detail LQ and NLQ
are collected for each link in the entire topology.

Defaults to Summary.

Plugin "onewire"
EXPERIMENTAL! See notes below.

The "onewire" plugin uses the owcapi library from the owfs project <http://owfs.org/> to
read sensors connected via the onewire bus.

Currently only temperature sensors (sensors with the family code 10, e. g. DS1820,
DS18S20, DS1920) can be read. If you have other sensors you would like to have included,
please send a sort request to the mailing list.

Hubs (the DS2409 chips) are working, but read the note, why this plugin is experimental,
below.

Device Device
Sets the device to read the values from. This can either be a "real" hardware device,
such as a serial port or an USB port, or the address of the owserver(1) socket,
usually localhost:4304.

Though the documentation claims to automatically recognize the given address format,
with version 2.7p4 we had to specify the type explicitly. So with that version, the
following configuration worked for us:

<Plugin onewire>
Device "-s localhost:4304"
</Plugin>

This directive is required and does not have a default value.

Sensor Sensor
Selects sensors to collect or to ignore, depending on IgnoreSelected, see below.
Sensors are specified without the family byte at the beginning, to you'd use
"F10FCA000800", and not include the leading 10. family byte and point.

IgnoreSelected true|false
If no configuration if given, the onewire plugin will collect data from all sensors
found. This may not be practical, especially if sensors are added and removed
regularly. Sometimes, however, it's easier/preferred to collect only specific sensors
or all sensors except a few specified ones. This option enables you to do that: By
setting IgnoreSelected to true the effect of Sensor is inverted: All selected
interfaces are ignored and all other interfaces are collected.

Interval Seconds
Sets the interval in which all sensors should be read. If not specified, the global
Interval setting is used.

EXPERIMENTAL! The "onewire" plugin is experimental, because it doesn't yet work with big
setups. It works with one sensor being attached to one controller, but as soon as you
throw in a couple more senors and maybe a hub or two, reading all values will take more
than ten seconds (the default interval). We will probably add some separate thread for
reading the sensors and some cache or something like that, but it's not done yet. We will
try to maintain backwards compatibility in the future, but we can't promise. So in short:
If it works for you: Great! But keep in mind that the config might change, though this is
unlikely. Oh, and if you want to help improving this plugin, just send a short notice to
the mailing list. Thanks :)

Plugin "openvpn"
The OpenVPN plugin reads a status file maintained by OpenVPN and gathers traffic
statistics about connected clients.

To set up OpenVPN to write to the status file periodically, use the --status option of
OpenVPN. Since OpenVPN can write two different formats, you need to set the required
format, too. This is done by setting --status-version to 2.

So, in a nutshell you need:

openvpn $OTHER_OPTIONS \
--status "/var/run/openvpn-status" 10 \
--status-version 2

Available options:

StatusFile File
Specifies the location of the status file.

ImprovedNamingSchema true|false
When enabled, the filename of the status file will be used as plugin instance and the
client's "common name" will be used as type instance. This is required when reading
multiple status files. Enabling this option is recommended, but to maintain backwards
compatibility this option is disabled by default.

CollectCompression true|false
Sets whether or not statistics about the compression used by OpenVPN should be
collected. This information is only available in single mode. Enabled by default.

CollectIndividualUsers true|false
Sets whether or not traffic information is collected for each connected client
individually. If set to false, currently no traffic data is collected at all because
aggregating this data in a save manner is tricky. Defaults to true.

CollectUserCount true|false
When enabled, the number of currently connected clients or users is collected. This
is especially interesting when CollectIndividualUsers is disabled, but can be
configured independently from that option. Defaults to false.

Plugin "oracle"
The "oracle" plugin uses the OracleX Call Interface (OCI) to connect to an OracleX
Database and lets you execute SQL statements there. It is very similar to the "dbi"
plugin, because it was written around the same time. See the "dbi" plugin's documentation
above for details.

<Plugin oracle>
<Query "out_of_stock">
Statement "SELECT category, COUNT(*) AS value FROM products WHERE in_stock = 0 GROUP BY category"
<Result>
Type "gauge"
# InstancePrefix "foo"
InstancesFrom "category"
ValuesFrom "value"
</Result>
</Query>
<Database "product_information">
ConnectID "db01"
Username "oracle"
Password "secret"
Query "out_of_stock"
</Database>
</Plugin>

Query blocks

The Query blocks are handled identically to the Query blocks of the "dbi" plugin. Please
see its documentation above for details on how to specify queries.

Database blocks

Database blocks define a connection to a database and which queries should be sent to that
database. Each database needs a "name" as string argument in the starting tag of the
block. This name will be used as "PluginInstance" in the values submitted to the daemon.
Other than that, that name is not used.

ConnectID ID
Defines the "database alias" or "service name" to connect to. Usually, these names are
defined in the file named "$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora".

Host Host
Hostname to use when dispatching values for this database. Defaults to using the
global hostname of the collectd instance.

Username Username
Username used for authentication.

Password Password
Password used for authentication.

Plugin "perl"
This plugin embeds a Perl-interpreter into collectd and provides an interface to
collectd's plugin system. See collectd-perl(5) for its documentation.

Plugin "pinba"
The Pinba plugin receives profiling information from Pinba, an extension for the PHP
interpreter. At the end of executing a script, i.e. after a PHP-based webpage has been
delivered, the extension will send a UDP packet containing timing information, peak memory
usage and so on. The plugin will wait for such packets, parse them and account the
provided information, which is then dispatched to the daemon once per interval.

Synopsis:

<Plugin pinba>
Address "::0"
Port "30002"
# Overall statistics for the website.
<View "www-total">
Server "www.example.com"
</View>
# Statistics for www-a only
<View "www-a">
Host "www-a.example.com"
Server "www.example.com"
</View>
# Statistics for www-b only
<View "www-b">
Host "www-b.example.com"
Server "www.example.com"
</View>
</Plugin>

The plugin provides the following configuration options:

Address Node
Configures the address used to open a listening socket. By default, plugin will bind
to the any address "::0".

Port Service
Configures the port (service) to bind to. By default the default Pinba port "30002"
will be used. The option accepts service names in addition to port numbers and thus
requires a string argument.

<View Name> block
The packets sent by the Pinba extension include the hostname of the server, the server
name (the name of the virtual host) and the script that was executed. Using View
blocks it is possible to separate the data into multiple groups to get more meaningful
statistics. Each packet is added to all matching groups, so that a packet may be
accounted for more than once.

Host Host
Matches the hostname of the system the webserver / script is running on. This will
contain the result of the gethostname(2) system call. If not configured, all
hostnames will be accepted.

Server Server
Matches the name of the virtual host, i.e. the contents of the
$_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] variable when within PHP. If not configured, all server
names will be accepted.

Script Script
Matches the name of the script name, i.e. the contents of the
$_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] variable when within PHP. If not configured, all script
names will be accepted.

Plugin "ping"
The Ping plugin starts a new thread which sends ICMP "ping" packets to the configured
hosts periodically and measures the network latency. Whenever the "read" function of the
plugin is called, it submits the average latency, the standard deviation and the drop rate
for each host.

Available configuration options:

Host IP-address
Host to ping periodically. This option may be repeated several times to ping multiple
hosts.

Interval Seconds
Sets the interval in which to send ICMP echo packets to the configured hosts. This is
not the interval in which statistics are queries from the plugin but the interval in
which the hosts are "pinged". Therefore, the setting here should be smaller than or
equal to the global Interval setting. Fractional times, such as "1.24" are allowed.

Default: 1.0

Timeout Seconds
Time to wait for a response from the host to which an ICMP packet had been sent. If a
reply was not received after Seconds seconds, the host is assumed to be down or the
packet to be dropped. This setting must be smaller than the Interval setting above for
the plugin to work correctly. Fractional arguments are accepted.

Default: 0.9

TTL 0-255
Sets the Time-To-Live of generated ICMP packets.

SourceAddress host
Sets the source address to use. host may either be a numerical network address or a
network hostname.

Device name
Sets the outgoing network device to be used. name has to specify an interface name
(e. g. "eth0"). This might not be supported by all operating systems.

MaxMissed Packets
Trigger a DNS resolve after the host has not replied to Packets packets. This enables
the use of dynamic DNS services (like dyndns.org) with the ping plugin.

Default: -1 (disabled)

Plugin "postgresql"
The "postgresql" plugin queries statistics from PostgreSQL databases. It keeps a
persistent connection to all configured databases and tries to reconnect if the connection
has been interrupted. A database is configured by specifying a Database block as described
below. The default statistics are collected from PostgreSQL's statistics collector which
thus has to be enabled for this plugin to work correctly. This should usually be the case
by default. See the section "The Statistics Collector" of the PostgreSQL Documentation for
details.

By specifying custom database queries using a Query block as described below, you may
collect any data that is available from some PostgreSQL database. This way, you are able
to access statistics of external daemons which are available in a PostgreSQL database or
use future or special statistics provided by PostgreSQL without the need to upgrade your
collectd installation.

Starting with version 5.2, the "postgresql" plugin supports writing data to PostgreSQL
databases as well. This has been implemented in a generic way. You need to specify an SQL
statement which will then be executed by collectd in order to write the data (see below
for details). The benefit of that approach is that there is no fixed database layout.
Rather, the layout may be optimized for the current setup.

The PostgreSQL Documentation manual can be found at
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/>.

<Plugin postgresql>
<Query magic>
Statement "SELECT magic FROM wizard WHERE host = $1;"
Param hostname
<Result>
Type gauge
InstancePrefix "magic"
ValuesFrom magic
</Result>
</Query>

<Query rt36_tickets>
Statement "SELECT COUNT(type) AS count, type \
FROM (SELECT CASE \
WHEN resolved = 'epoch' THEN 'open' \
ELSE 'resolved' END AS type \
FROM tickets) type \
GROUP BY type;"
<Result>
Type counter
InstancePrefix "rt36_tickets"
InstancesFrom "type"
ValuesFrom "count"
</Result>
</Query>

<Writer sqlstore>
Statement "SELECT collectd_insert($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9);"
StoreRates true
</Writer>

<Database foo>
Host "hostname"
Port "5432"
User "username"
Password "secret"
SSLMode "prefer"
KRBSrvName "kerberos_service_name"
Query magic
</Database>

<Database bar>
Interval 300
Service "service_name"
Query backend # predefined
Query rt36_tickets
</Database>

<Database qux>
# ...
Writer sqlstore
CommitInterval 10
</Database>
</Plugin>

The Query block defines one database query which may later be used by a database
definition. It accepts a single mandatory argument which specifies the name of the query.
The names of all queries have to be unique (see the MinVersion and MaxVersion options
below for an exception to this rule). The following configuration options are available to
define the query:

In each Query block, there is one or more Result blocks. Result blocks define how to
handle the values returned from the query. They define which column holds which value and
how to dispatch that value to the daemon. Multiple Result blocks may be used to extract
multiple values from a single query.

Statement sql query statement
Specify the sql query statement which the plugin should execute. The string may
contain the tokens $1, $2, etc. which are used to reference the first, second, etc.
parameter. The value of the parameters is specified by the Param configuration option
- see below for details. To include a literal $ character followed by a number,
surround it with single quotes (').

Any SQL command which may return data (such as "SELECT" or "SHOW") is allowed. Note,
however, that only a single command may be used. Semicolons are allowed as long as a
single non-empty command has been specified only.

The returned lines will be handled separately one after another.

Param hostname|database|username|interval
Specify the parameters which should be passed to the SQL query. The parameters are
referred to in the SQL query as $1, $2, etc. in the same order as they appear in the
configuration file. The value of the parameter is determined depending on the value of
the Param option as follows:

hostname
The configured hostname of the database connection. If a UNIX domain socket is
used, the parameter expands to "localhost".

database
The name of the database of the current connection.

instance
The name of the database plugin instance. See the Instance option of the database
specification below for details.

username
The username used to connect to the database.

interval
The interval with which this database is queried (as specified by the database
specific or global Interval options).

Please note that parameters are only supported by PostgreSQL's protocol version 3 and
above which was introduced in version 7.4 of PostgreSQL.

Type type
The type name to be used when dispatching the values. The type describes how to handle
the data and where to store it. See types.db(5) for more details on types and their
configuration. The number and type of values (as selected by the ValuesFrom option)
has to match the type of the given name.

This option is required inside a Result block.

InstancePrefix prefix
InstancesFrom column0 [column1 ...]
Specify how to create the "TypeInstance" for each data set (i. e. line).
InstancePrefix defines a static prefix that will be prepended to all type instances.
InstancesFrom defines the column names whose values will be used to create the type
instance. Multiple values will be joined together using the hyphen ("-") as separation
character.

The plugin itself does not check whether or not all built instances are different. It
is your responsibility to assure that each is unique.

Both options are optional. If none is specified, the type instance will be empty.

ValuesFrom column0 [column1 ...]
Names the columns whose content is used as the actual data for the data sets that are
dispatched to the daemon. How many such columns you need is determined by the Type
setting as explained above. If you specify too many or not enough columns, the plugin
will complain about that and no data will be submitted to the daemon.

The actual data type, as seen by PostgreSQL, is not that important as long as it
represents numbers. The plugin will automatically cast the values to the right type if
it know how to do that. For that, it uses the strtoll(3) and strtod(3) functions, so
anything supported by those functions is supported by the plugin as well.

This option is required inside a Result block and may be specified multiple times. If
multiple ValuesFrom options are specified, the columns are read in the given order.

MinVersion version
MaxVersion version
Specify the minimum or maximum version of PostgreSQL that this query should be used
with. Some statistics might only be available with certain versions of PostgreSQL.
This allows you to specify multiple queries with the same name but which apply to
different versions, thus allowing you to use the same configuration in a heterogeneous
environment.

The version has to be specified as the concatenation of the major, minor and patch-
level versions, each represented as two-decimal-digit numbers. For example, version
8.2.3 will become 80203.

The following predefined queries are available (the definitions can be found in the
postgresql_default.conf file which, by default, is available at "prefix/share/collectd/"):

backends
This query collects the number of backends, i. e. the number of connected clients.

transactions
This query collects the numbers of committed and rolled-back transactions of the user
tables.

queries
This query collects the numbers of various table modifications (i. e. insertions,
updates, deletions) of the user tables.

query_plans
This query collects the numbers of various table scans and returned tuples of the user
tables.

table_states
This query collects the numbers of live and dead rows in the user tables.

disk_io
This query collects disk block access counts for user tables.

disk_usage
This query collects the on-disk size of the database in bytes.

In addition, the following detailed queries are available by default. Please note that
each of those queries collects information by table, thus, potentially producing a lot of
data. For details see the description of the non-by_table queries above.

queries_by_table
query_plans_by_table
table_states_by_table
disk_io_by_table

The Writer block defines a PostgreSQL writer backend. It accepts a single mandatory
argument specifying the name of the writer. This will then be used in the Database
specification in order to activate the writer instance. The names of all writers have to
be unique. The following options may be specified:

Statement sql statement
This mandatory option specifies the SQL statement that will be executed for each
submitted value. A single SQL statement is allowed only. Anything after the first
semicolon will be ignored.

Nine parameters will be passed to the statement and should be specified as tokens $1,
$2, through $9 in the statement string. The following values are made available
through those parameters:

$1 The timestamp of the queried value as a floating point number.

$2 The hostname of the queried value.

$3 The plugin name of the queried value.

$4 The plugin instance of the queried value. This value may be NULL if there is no
plugin instance.

$5 The type of the queried value (cf. types.db(5)).

$6 The type instance of the queried value. This value may be NULL if there is no type
instance.

$7 An array of names for the submitted values (i. e., the name of the data sources of
the submitted value-list).

$8 An array of types for the submitted values (i. e., the type of the data sources of
the submitted value-list; "counter", "gauge", ...). Note, that if StoreRates is
enabled (which is the default, see below), all types will be "gauge".

$9 An array of the submitted values. The dimensions of the value name and value
arrays match.

In general, it is advisable to create and call a custom function in the PostgreSQL
database for this purpose. Any procedural language supported by PostgreSQL will do
(see chapter "Server Programming" in the PostgreSQL manual for details).

StoreRates false|true
If set to true (the default), convert counter values to rates. If set to false counter
values are stored as is, i. e. as an increasing integer number.

The Database block defines one PostgreSQL database for which to collect statistics. It
accepts a single mandatory argument which specifies the database name. None of the other
options are required. PostgreSQL will use default values as documented in the section
"CONNECTING TO A DATABASE" in the psql(1) manpage. However, be aware that those defaults
may be influenced by the user collectd is run as and special environment variables. See
the manpage for details.

Interval seconds
Specify the interval with which the database should be queried. The default is to use
the global Interval setting.

CommitInterval seconds
This option may be used for database connections which have "writers" assigned (see
above). If specified, it causes a writer to put several updates into a single
transaction. This transaction will last for the specified amount of time. By default,
each update will be executed in a separate transaction. Each transaction generates a
fair amount of overhead which can, thus, be reduced by activating this option. The
draw-back is, that data covering the specified amount of time will be lost, for
example, if a single statement within the transaction fails or if the database server
crashes.

Host hostname
Specify the hostname or IP of the PostgreSQL server to connect to. If the value begins
with a slash, it is interpreted as the directory name in which to look for the UNIX
domain socket.

This option is also used to determine the hostname that is associated with a collected
data set. If it has been omitted or either begins with with a slash or equals
localhost it will be replaced with the global hostname definition of collectd. Any
other value will be passed literally to collectd when dispatching values. Also see the
global Hostname and FQDNLookup options.

Port port
Specify the TCP port or the local UNIX domain socket file extension of the server.

User username
Specify the username to be used when connecting to the server.

Password password
Specify the password to be used when connecting to the server.

SSLMode disable|allow|prefer|require
Specify whether to use an SSL connection when contacting the server. The following
modes are supported:

Instance name
Specify the plugin instance name that should be used instead of the database name
(which is the default, if this option has not been specified). This allows to query
multiple databases of the same name on the same host (e.g. when running multiple
database server versions in parallel).

disable
Do not use SSL at all.

allow
First, try to connect without using SSL. If that fails, try using SSL.

prefer (default)
First, try to connect using SSL. If that fails, try without using SSL.

require
Use SSL only.

KRBSrvName kerberos_service_name
Specify the Kerberos service name to use when authenticating with Kerberos 5 or
GSSAPI. See the sections "Kerberos authentication" and "GSSAPI" of the PostgreSQL
Documentation for details.

Service service_name
Specify the PostgreSQL service name to use for additional parameters. That service has
to be defined in pg_service.conf and holds additional connection parameters. See the
section "The Connection Service File" in the PostgreSQL Documentation for details.

Query query
Specifies a query which should be executed in the context of the database connection.
This may be any of the predefined or user-defined queries. If no such option is given,
it defaults to "backends", "transactions", "queries", "query_plans", "table_states",
"disk_io" and "disk_usage" (unless a Writer has been specified). Else, the specified
queries are used only.

Writer writer
Assigns the specified writer backend to the database connection. This causes all
collected data to be send to the database using the settings defined in the writer
configuration (see the section "FILTER CONFIGURATION" below for details on how to
selectively send data to certain plugins).

Each writer will register a flush callback which may be used when having long
transactions enabled (see the CommitInterval option above). When issuing the FLUSH
command (see collectd-unixsock(5) for details) the current transaction will be
committed right away. Two different kinds of flush callbacks are available with the
"postgresql" plugin:

postgresql
Flush all writer backends.

postgresql-database
Flush all writers of the specified database only.

Plugin "powerdns"
The "powerdns" plugin queries statistics from an authoritative PowerDNS nameserver and/or
a PowerDNS recursor. Since both offer a wide variety of values, many of which are probably
meaningless to most users, but may be useful for some. So you may chose which values to
collect, but if you don't, some reasonable defaults will be collected.

<Plugin "powerdns">
<Server "server_name">
Collect "latency"
Collect "udp-answers" "udp-queries"
Socket "/var/run/pdns.controlsocket"
</Server>
<Recursor "recursor_name">
Collect "questions"
Collect "cache-hits" "cache-misses"
Socket "/var/run/pdns_recursor.controlsocket"
</Recursor>
LocalSocket "/opt/collectd/var/run/collectd-powerdns"
</Plugin>

Server and Recursor block
The Server block defines one authoritative server to query, the Recursor does the same
for an recursing server. The possible options in both blocks are the same, though. The
argument defines a name for the server / recursor and is required.

Collect Field
Using the Collect statement you can select which values to collect. Here, you
specify the name of the values as used by the PowerDNS servers, e. g.
"dlg-only-drops", "answers10-100".

The method of getting the values differs for Server and Recursor blocks: When
querying the server a "SHOW *" command is issued in any case, because that's the
only way of getting multiple values out of the server at once. collectd then
picks out the values you have selected. When querying the recursor, a command is
generated to query exactly these values. So if you specify invalid fields when
querying the recursor, a syntax error may be returned by the daemon and collectd
may not collect any values at all.

If no Collect statement is given, the following Server values will be collected:

latency
packetcache-hit
packetcache-miss
packetcache-size
query-cache-hit
query-cache-miss
recursing-answers
recursing-questions
tcp-answers
tcp-queries
udp-answers
udp-queries

The following Recursor values will be collected by default:

noerror-answers
nxdomain-answers
servfail-answers
sys-msec
user-msec
qa-latency
cache-entries
cache-hits
cache-misses
questions

Please note that up to that point collectd doesn't know what values are available
on the server and values that are added do not need a change of the mechanism so
far. However, the values must be mapped to collectd's naming scheme, which is done
using a lookup table that lists all known values. If values are added in the
future and collectd does not know about them, you will get an error much like
this:

powerdns plugin: submit: Not found in lookup table: foobar = 42

In this case please file a bug report with the collectd team.

Socket Path
Configures the path to the UNIX domain socket to be used when connecting to the
daemon. By default "${localstatedir}/run/pdns.controlsocket" will be used for an
authoritative server and "${localstatedir}/run/pdns_recursor.controlsocket" will
be used for the recursor.

LocalSocket Path
Querying the recursor is done using UDP. When using UDP over UNIX domain sockets, the
client socket needs a name in the file system, too. You can set this local name to
Path using the LocalSocket option. The default is "prefix/var/run/collectd-powerdns".

Plugin "processes"
Process Name
Select more detailed statistics of processes matching this name. The statistics
collected for these selected processes are size of the resident segment size (RSS),
user- and system-time used, number of processes and number of threads, io data (where
available) and minor and major pagefaults.

ProcessMatch name regex
Similar to the Process option this allows to select more detailed statistics of
processes matching the specified regex (see regex(7) for details). The statistics of
all matching processes are summed up and dispatched to the daemon using the specified
name as an identifier. This allows to "group" several processes together. name must
not contain slashes.

Plugin "protocols"
Collects a lot of information about various network protocols, such as IP, TCP, UDP, etc.

Available configuration options:

Value Selector
Selects whether or not to select a specific value. The string being matched is of the
form "Protocol:ValueName", where Protocol will be used as the plugin instance and
ValueName will be used as type instance. An example of the string being used would be
"Tcp:RetransSegs".

You can use regular expressions to match a large number of values with just one
configuration option. To select all "extended" TCP values, you could use the following
statement:

Value "/^TcpExt:/"

Whether only matched values are selected or all matched values are ignored depends on
the IgnoreSelected. By default, only matched values are selected. If no value is
configured at all, all values will be selected.

IgnoreSelected true|false
If set to true, inverts the selection made by Value, i. e. all matching values will be
ignored.

Plugin "python"
This plugin embeds a Python-interpreter into collectd and provides an interface to
collectd's plugin system. See collectd-python(5) for its documentation.

Plugin "routeros"
The "routeros" plugin connects to a device running RouterOS, the Linux-based operating
system for routers by MikroTik. The plugin uses librouteros to connect and reads
information about the interfaces and wireless connections of the device. The configuration
supports querying multiple routers:

<Plugin "routeros">
<Router>
Host "router0.example.com"
User "collectd"
Password "secr3t"
CollectInterface true
CollectCPULoad true
CollectMemory true
</Router>
<Router>
Host "router1.example.com"
User "collectd"
Password "5ecret"
CollectInterface true
CollectRegistrationTable true
CollectDF true
CollectDisk true
</Router>
</Plugin>

As you can see above, the configuration of the routeros plugin consists of one or more
<Router> blocks. Within each block, the following options are understood:

Host Host
Hostname or IP-address of the router to connect to.

Port Port
Port name or port number used when connecting. If left unspecified, the default will
be chosen by librouteros, currently "8728". This option expects a string argument,
even when a numeric port number is given.

User User
Use the user name User to authenticate. Defaults to "admin".

Password Password
Set the password used to authenticate.

CollectInterface true|false
When set to true, interface statistics will be collected for all interfaces present on
the device. Defaults to false.

CollectRegistrationTable true|false
When set to true, information about wireless LAN connections will be collected.
Defaults to false.

CollectCPULoad true|false
When set to true, information about the CPU usage will be collected. The number is a
dimensionless value where zero indicates no CPU usage at all. Defaults to false.

CollectMemory true|false
When enabled, the amount of used and free memory will be collected. How used memory is
calculated is unknown, for example whether or not caches are counted as used space.
Defaults to false.

CollectDF true|false
When enabled, the amount of used and free disk space will be collected. Defaults to
false.

CollectDisk true|false
When enabled, the number of sectors written and bad blocks will be collected.
Defaults to false.

Plugin "redis"
The Redis plugin connects to one or more Redis servers and gathers information about each
server's state. For each server there is a Node block which configures the connection
parameters for this node.

<Plugin redis>
<Node "example">
Host "localhost"
Port "6379"
Timeout 2000
</Node>
</Plugin>

The information shown in the synopsis above is the default configuration which is used by
the plugin if no configuration is present.

Node Nodename
The Node block identifies a new Redis node, that is a new Redis instance running in an
specified host and port. The name for node is a canonical identifier which is used as
plugin instance. It is limited to 64 characters in length.

Host Hostname
The Host option is the hostname or IP-address where the Redis instance is running on.

Port Port
The Port option is the TCP port on which the Redis instance accepts connections.
Either a service name of a port number may be given. Please note that numerical port
numbers must be given as a string, too.

Password Password
Use Password to authenticate when connecting to Redis.

Timeout Timeout in miliseconds
The Timeout option set the socket timeout for node response. Since the Redis read
function is blocking, you should keep this value as low as possible. Keep in mind that
the sum of all Timeout values for all Nodes should be lower than Interval defined
globally.

Plugin "rrdcached"
The "rrdcached" plugin uses the RRDtool accelerator daemon, rrdcached(1), to store values
to RRD files in an efficient manner. The combination of the "rrdcached" plugin and the
"rrdcached" daemon is very similar to the way the "rrdtool" plugin works (see below). The
added abstraction layer provides a number of benefits, though: Because the cache is not
within "collectd" anymore, it does not need to be flushed when "collectd" is to be
restarted. This results in much shorter (if any) gaps in graphs, especially under heavy
load. Also, the "rrdtool" command line utility is aware of the daemon so that it can flush
values to disk automatically when needed. This allows to integrate automated flushing of
values into graphing solutions much more easily.

There are disadvantages, though: The daemon may reside on a different host, so it may not
be possible for "collectd" to create the appropriate RRD files anymore. And even if
"rrdcached" runs on the same host, it may run in a different base directory, so relative
paths may do weird stuff if you're not careful.

So the recommended configuration is to let "collectd" and "rrdcached" run on the same
host, communicating via a UNIX domain socket. The DataDir setting should be set to an
absolute path, so that a changed base directory does not result in RRD files being
created / expected in the wrong place.

DaemonAddress Address
Address of the daemon as understood by the "rrdc_connect" function of the RRD library.
See rrdcached(1) for details. Example:

<Plugin "rrdcached">
DaemonAddress "unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock"
</Plugin>

DataDir Directory
Set the base directory in which the RRD files reside. If this is a relative path, it
is relative to the working base directory of the "rrdcached" daemon! Use of an
absolute path is recommended.

CreateFiles true|false
Enables or disables the creation of RRD files. If the daemon is not running locally,
or DataDir is set to a relative path, this will not work as expected. Default is true.

CreateFilesAsync false|true
When enabled, new RRD files are enabled asynchronously, using a separate thread that
runs in the background. This prevents writes to block, which is a problem especially
when many hundreds of files need to be created at once. However, since the purpose of
creating the files asynchronously is not to block until the file is available, values
before the file is available will be discarded. When disabled (the default) files are
created synchronously, blocking for a short while, while the file is being written.

StepSize Seconds
Force the stepsize of newly created RRD-files. Ideally (and per default) this setting
is unset and the stepsize is set to the interval in which the data is collected. Do
not use this option unless you absolutely have to for some reason. Setting this option
may cause problems with the "snmp plugin", the "exec plugin" or when the daemon is set
up to receive data from other hosts.

HeartBeat Seconds
Force the heartbeat of newly created RRD-files. This setting should be unset in which
case the heartbeat is set to twice the StepSize which should equal the interval in
which data is collected. Do not set this option unless you have a very good reason to
do so.

RRARows NumRows
The "rrdtool plugin" calculates the number of PDPs per CDP based on the StepSize, this
setting and a timespan. This plugin creates RRD-files with three times five RRAs, i.
e. five RRAs with the CFs MIN, AVERAGE, and MAX. The five RRAs are optimized for
graphs covering one hour, one day, one week, one month, and one year.

So for each timespan, it calculates how many PDPs need to be consolidated into one CDP
by calculating:
number of PDPs = timespan / (stepsize * rrarows)

Bottom line is, set this no smaller than the width of you graphs in pixels. The
default is 1200.

RRATimespan Seconds
Adds an RRA-timespan, given in seconds. Use this option multiple times to have more
then one RRA. If this option is never used, the built-in default of (3600, 86400,
604800, 2678400, 31622400) is used.

For more information on how RRA-sizes are calculated see RRARows above.

XFF Factor
Set the "XFiles Factor". The default is 0.1. If unsure, don't set this option. Factor
must be in the range "[0.0-1.0)", i.e. between zero (inclusive) and one (exclusive).

Plugin "rrdtool"
You can use the settings StepSize, HeartBeat, RRARows, and XFF to fine-tune your RRD-
files. Please read rrdcreate(1) if you encounter problems using these settings. If you
don't want to dive into the depths of RRDtool, you can safely ignore these settings.

DataDir Directory
Set the directory to store RRD files under. By default RRD files are generated beneath
the daemon's working directory, i.e. the BaseDir.

RRARows NumRows
The "rrdtool plugin" calculates the number of PDPs per CDP based on the StepSize, this
setting and a timespan. This plugin creates RRD-files with three times five RRAs, i.e.
five RRAs with the CFs MIN, AVERAGE, and MAX. The five RRAs are optimized for graphs
covering one hour, one day, one week, one month, and one year.

So for each timespan, it calculates how many PDPs need to be consolidated into one CDP
by calculating:
number of PDPs = timespan / (stepsize * rrarows)

Bottom line is, set this no smaller than the width of you graphs in pixels. The
default is 1200.

For more information on how RRA-sizes are calculated see RRARows above.

XFF Factor
Set the "XFiles Factor". The default is 0.1. If unsure, don't set this option. Factor
must be in the range "[0.0-1.0)", i.e. between zero (inclusive) and one (exclusive).

CacheFlush Seconds
When the "rrdtool" plugin uses a cache (by setting CacheTimeout, see below) it writes
all values for a certain RRD-file if the oldest value is older than (or equal to) the
number of seconds specified. If some RRD-file is not updated anymore for some reason
(the computer was shut down, the network is broken, etc.) some values may still be in
the cache. If CacheFlush is set, then the entire cache is searched for entries older
than CacheTimeout seconds and written to disk every Seconds seconds. Since this is
kind of expensive and does nothing under normal circumstances, this value should not
be too small. 900 seconds might be a good value, though setting this to 7200 seconds
doesn't normally do much harm either.

CacheTimeout Seconds
If this option is set to a value greater than zero, the "rrdtool plugin" will save
values in a cache, as described above. Writing multiple values at once reduces IO-
operations and thus lessens the load produced by updating the files. The trade off is
that the graphs kind of "drag behind" and that more memory is used.

WritesPerSecond Updates
When collecting many statistics with collectd and the "rrdtool" plugin, you will run
serious performance problems. The CacheFlush setting and the internal update queue
assert that collectd continues to work just fine even under heavy load, but the system
may become very unresponsive and slow. This is a problem especially if you create
graphs from the RRD files on the same machine, for example using the "graph.cgi"
script included in the "contrib/collection3/" directory.

This setting is designed for very large setups. Setting this option to a value between
25 and 80 updates per second, depending on your hardware, will leave the server
responsive enough to draw graphs even while all the cached values are written to disk.
Flushed values, i. e. values that are forced to disk by the FLUSH command, are not
effected by this limit. They are still written as fast as possible, so that web
frontends have up to date data when generating graphs.

For example: If you have 100,000 RRD files and set WritesPerSecond to 30 updates per
second, writing all values to disk will take approximately 56 minutes. Together with
the flushing ability that's integrated into "collection3" you'll end up with a
responsive and fast system, up to date graphs and basically a "backup" of your values
every hour.

RandomTimeout Seconds
When set, the actual timeout for each value is chosen randomly between
CacheTimeout-RandomTimeout and CacheTimeout+RandomTimeout. The intention is to avoid
high load situations that appear when many values timeout at the same time. This is
especially a problem shortly after the daemon starts, because all values were added to
the internal cache at roughly the same time.

Plugin "sensors"
The Sensors plugin uses lm_sensors to retrieve sensor-values. This means that all the
needed modules have to be loaded and lm_sensors has to be configured (most likely by
editing /etc/sensors.conf. Read sensors.conf(5) for details.

The lm_sensors homepage can be found at <http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/>.

SensorConfigFile File
Read the lm_sensors configuration from File. When unset (recommended), the library's
default will be used.

Sensor chip-bus-address/type-feature
Selects the name of the sensor which you want to collect or ignore, depending on the
IgnoreSelected below. For example, the option "Sensor it8712-isa-0290/voltage-in1"
will cause collectd to gather data for the voltage sensor in1 of the it8712 on the isa
bus at the address 0290.

IgnoreSelected true|false
If no configuration if given, the sensors-plugin will collect data from all sensors.
This may not be practical, especially for uninteresting sensors. Thus, you can use
the Sensor-option to pick the sensors you're interested in. Sometimes, however, it's
easier/preferred to collect all sensors except a few ones. This option enables you to
do that: By setting IgnoreSelected to true the effect of Sensor is inverted: All
selected sensors are ignored and all other sensors are collected.

Plugin "sigrok"
The sigrok plugin uses libsigrok to retrieve measurements from any device supported by the
sigrok <http://sigrok.org/> project.

Synopsis

<Plugin sigrok>
LogLevel 3
<Device "AC Voltage">
Driver "fluke-dmm"
MinimumInterval 10
Conn "/dev/ttyUSB2"
</Device>
<Device "Sound Level">
Driver "cem-dt-885x"
Conn "/dev/ttyUSB1"
</Device>
</Plugin>

LogLevel 0-5
The sigrok logging level to pass on to the collectd log, as a number between 0 and 5
(inclusive). 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.

<Device Name>
A sigrok-supported device, uniquely identified by this section's options. The Name is
passed to collectd as the plugin instance.

Driver DriverName
The sigrok driver to use for this device.

Conn ConnectionSpec
If the device cannot be auto-discovered, or more than one might be discovered by the
driver, ConnectionSpec specifies the connection string to the device. It can be of
the form of a device path (e.g. "/dev/ttyUSB2"), or, in case of a non-serial USB-
connected device, the USB VendorID.ProductID separated by a period (e.g. 0403.6001). A
USB device can also be specified as Bus.Address (e.g. 1.41).

SerialComm SerialSpec
For serial devices with non-standard port settings, this option can be used to specify
them in a form understood by sigrok, e.g. "9600/8n1". This should not be necessary;
drivers know how to communicate with devices they support.

MinimumInterval Seconds
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 MinimumInterval is 0, meaning measurements received from the device are
always dispatched to collectd. When throttled, unused measurements are discarded.

Plugin "snmp"
Since the configuration of the "snmp plugin" is a little more complicated than other
plugins, its documentation has been moved to an own manpage, collectd-snmp(5). Please see
there for details.

Plugin "statsd"
The statsd plugin listens to a UDP socket, reads "events" in the statsd protocol and
dispatches rates or other aggregates of these numbers periodically.

The plugin implements the Counter, Timer, Gauge and Set types which are dispatched as the
collectd types "derive", "latency", "gauge" and "objects" respectively.

The following configuration options are valid:

Host Host
Bind to the hostname / address Host. By default, the plugin will bind to the "any"
address, i.e. accept packets sent to any of the hosts addresses.

Port Port
UDP port to listen to. This can be either a service name or a port number. Defaults
to 8125.

DeleteCounters false|true
DeleteTimers false|true
DeleteGauges false|true
DeleteSets false|true
These options control what happens if metrics are not updated in an interval. If set
to False, the default, metrics are dispatched unchanged, i.e. the rate of counters and
size of sets will be zero, timers report "NaN" and gauges are unchanged. If set to
True, the such metrics are not dispatched and removed from the internal cache.

TimerPercentile Percent
Calculate and dispatch the configured percentile, i.e. compute the latency, so that
Percent of all reported timers are smaller than or equal to the computed latency. This
is useful for cutting off the long tail latency, as it's often done in Service Level
Agreements (SLAs).

If not specified, no percentile is calculated / dispatched.

Plugin "swap"
The Swap plugin collects information about used and available swap space. On Linux and
Solaris, the following options are available:

ReportByDevice false|true
Configures how to report physical swap devices. If set to false (the default), the
summary over all swap devices is reported only, i.e. the globally used and available
space over all devices. If true is configured, the used and available space of each
device will be reported separately.

This option is only available if the Swap plugin can read "/proc/swaps" (under Linux)
or use the swapctl(2) mechanism (under Solaris).

ReportBytes false|true
When enabled, the swap I/O is reported in bytes. When disabled, the default, swap I/O
is reported in pages. This option is available under Linux only.

Plugin "syslog"
LogLevel debug|info|notice|warning|err
Sets the log-level. If, for example, set to notice, then all events with severity
notice, warning, or err will be submitted to the syslog-daemon.

Please note that debug is only available if collectd has been compiled with debugging
support.

NotifyLevel OKAY|WARNING|FAILURE
Controls which notifications should be sent to syslog. The default behaviour is not to
send any. Less severe notifications always imply logging more severe notifications:
Setting this to OKAY means all notifications will be sent to syslog, setting this to
WARNING will send WARNING and FAILURE notifications but will dismiss OKAY
notifications. Setting this option to FAILURE will only send failures to syslog.

Plugin "table"
The "table plugin" provides generic means to parse tabular data and dispatch user
specified values. Values are selected based on column numbers. For example, this plugin
may be used to get values from the Linux proc(5) filesystem or CSV (comma separated
values) files.

<Plugin table>
<Table "/proc/slabinfo">
Instance "slabinfo"
Separator " "
<Result>
Type gauge
InstancePrefix "active_objs"
InstancesFrom 0
ValuesFrom 1
</Result>
<Result>
Type gauge
InstancePrefix "objperslab"
InstancesFrom 0
ValuesFrom 4
</Result>
</Table>
</Plugin>

The configuration consists of one or more Table blocks, each of which configures one file
to parse. Within each Table block, there are one or more Result blocks, which configure
which data to select and how to interpret it.

The following options are available inside a Table block:

Instance instance
If specified, instance is used as the plugin instance. So, in the above example, the
plugin name "table-slabinfo" would be used. If omitted, the filename of the table is
used instead, with all special characters replaced with an underscore ("_").

Separator string
Any character of string is interpreted as a delimiter between the different columns of
the table. A sequence of two or more contiguous delimiters in the table is considered
to be a single delimiter, i. e. there cannot be any empty columns. The plugin uses the
strtok_r(3) function to parse the lines of a table - see its documentation for more
details. This option is mandatory.

A horizontal tab, newline and carriage return may be specified by "\\t", "\\n" and
"\\r" respectively. Please note that the double backslashes are required because of
collectd's config parsing.

The following options are available inside a Result block:

Type type
Sets the type used to dispatch the values to the daemon. Detailed information about
types and their configuration can be found in types.db(5). This option is mandatory.

InstancePrefix prefix
If specified, prepend prefix to the type instance. If omitted, only the InstancesFrom
option is considered for the type instance.

InstancesFrom column0 [column1 ...]
If specified, the content of the given columns (identified by the column number
starting at zero) will be used to create the type instance for each row. Multiple
values (and the instance prefix) will be joined together with dashes (-) as separation
character. If omitted, only the InstancePrefix option is considered for the type
instance.

The plugin itself does not check whether or not all built instances are different.
ItXs your responsibility to assure that each is unique. This is especially true, if
you do not specify InstancesFrom: You have to make sure that the table only contains
one row.

If neither InstancePrefix nor InstancesFrom is given, the type instance will be empty.

ValuesFrom column0 [column1 ...]
Specifies the columns (identified by the column numbers starting at zero) whose
content is used as the actual data for the data sets that are dispatched to the
daemon. How many such columns you need is determined by the Type setting above. If you
specify too many or not enough columns, the plugin will complain about that and no
data will be submitted to the daemon. The plugin uses strtoll(3) and strtod(3) to
parse counter and gauge values respectively, so anything supported by those functions
is supported by the plugin as well. This option is mandatory.

Plugin "tail"
The "tail plugin" follows logfiles, just like tail(1) does, parses each line and
dispatches found values. What is matched can be configured by the user using (extended)
regular expressions, as described in regex(7).

<Plugin "tail">
<File "/var/log/exim4/mainlog">
Instance "exim"
<Match>
Regex "S=([1-9][0-9]*)"
DSType "CounterAdd"
Type "ipt_bytes"
Instance "total"
</Match>
<Match>
Regex "\\<R=local_user\\>"
ExcludeRegex "\\<R=local_user\\>.*mail_spool defer"
DSType "CounterInc"
Type "counter"
Instance "local_user"
</Match>
</File>
</Plugin>

The config consists of one or more File blocks, each of which configures one logfile to
parse. Within each File block, there are one or more Match blocks, which configure a
regular expression to search for.

The Instance option in the File block may be used to set the plugin instance. So in the
above example the plugin name "tail-foo" would be used. This plugin instance is for all
Match blocks that follow it, until the next Instance option. This way you can extract
several plugin instances from one logfile, handy when parsing syslog and the like.

Each Match block has the following options to describe how the match should be performed:

Regex regex
Sets the regular expression to use for matching against a line. The first
subexpression has to match something that can be turned into a number by strtoll(3) or
strtod(3), depending on the value of "CounterAdd", see below. Because extended regular
expressions are used, you do not need to use backslashes for subexpressions! If in
doubt, please consult regex(7). Due to collectd's config parsing you need to escape
backslashes, though. So if you want to match literal parentheses you need to do the
following:

Regex "SPAM \$Score: (-?[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)\$"

ExcludeRegex regex
Sets an optional regular expression to use for excluding lines from the match. An
example which excludes all connections from localhost from the match:

ExcludeRegex "127\\.0\\.0\\.1"

DSType Type
Sets how the values are cumulated. Type is one of:

GaugeAverage
Calculate the average.

GaugeMin
Use the smallest number only.

GaugeMax
Use the greatest number only.

GaugeLast
Use the last number found.

CounterSet
DeriveSet
AbsoluteSet
The matched number is a counter. Simply sets the internal counter to this value.
Variants exist for "COUNTER", "DERIVE", and "ABSOLUTE" data sources.

CounterAdd
DeriveAdd
Add the matched value to the internal counter. In case of DeriveAdd, the matched
number may be negative, which will effectively subtract from the internal counter.

CounterInc
DeriveInc
Increase the internal counter by one. These DSType are the only ones that do not
use the matched subexpression, but simply count the number of matched lines. Thus,
you may use a regular expression without submatch in this case.

As you'd expect the Gauge* types interpret the submatch as a floating point number,
using strtod(3). The Counter* and AbsoluteSet types interpret the submatch as an
unsigned integer using strtoull(3). The Derive* types interpret the submatch as a
signed integer using strtoll(3). CounterInc and DeriveInc do not use the submatch at
all and it may be omitted in this case.

Type Type
Sets the type used to dispatch this value. Detailed information about types and their
configuration can be found in types.db(5).

Instance TypeInstance
This optional setting sets the type instance to use.

Plugin "tail_csv"
The tail_csv plugin reads files in the CSV format, e.g. the statistics file written by
Snort.

Synopsis:

<Plugin "tail_csv">
<Metric "snort-dropped">
Type "percent"
Instance "dropped"
Index 1
</Metric>
<File "/var/log/snort/snort.stats">
Instance "snort-eth0"
Interval 600
Collect "snort-dropped"
</File>
</Plugin>

The configuration consists of one or more Metric blocks that define an index into the line
of the CSV file and how this value is mapped to collectd's internal representation. These
are followed by one or more Instance blocks which configure which file to read, in which
interval and which metrics to extract.

<Metric Name>
The Metric block configures a new metric to be extracted from the statistics file and
how it is mapped on collectd's data model. The string Name is only used inside the
Instance blocks to refer to this block, so you can use one Metric block for multiple
CSV files.

Type Type
Configures which Type to use when dispatching this metric. Types are defined in
the types.db(5) file, see the appropriate manual page for more information on
specifying types. Only types with a single data source are supported by the
tail_csv plugin. The information whether the value is an absolute value (i.e. a
"GAUGE") or a rate (i.e. a "DERIVE") is taken from the Type's definition.

Instance TypeInstance
If set, TypeInstance is used to populate the type instance field of the created
value lists. Otherwise, no type instance is used.

ValueFrom Index
Configure to read the value from the field with the zero-based index Index. If
the value is parsed as signed integer, unsigned integer or double depends on the
Type setting, see above.

<File Path>
Each File block represents one CSV file to read. There must be at least one File block
but there can be multiple if you have multiple CSV files.

Instance PluginInstance
Sets the plugin instance used when dispatching the values.

Collect Metric
Specifies which Metric to collect. This option must be specified at least once,
and you can use this option multiple times to specify more than one metric to be
extracted from this statistic file.

Interval Seconds
Configures the interval in which to read values from this instance / file.
Defaults to the plugin's default interval.

TimeFrom Index
Rather than using the local time when dispatching a value, read the timestamp from
the field with the zero-based index Index. The value is interpreted as seconds
since epoch. The value is parsed as a double and may be factional.

Plugin "teamspeak2"
The "teamspeak2 plugin" connects to the query port of a teamspeak2 server and polls
interesting global and virtual server data. The plugin can query only one physical server
but unlimited virtual servers. You can use the following options to configure it:

Host hostname/ip
The hostname or ip which identifies the physical server. Default: 127.0.0.1

Port port
The query port of the physical server. This needs to be a string. Default: "51234"

Server port
This option has to be added once for every virtual server the plugin should query. If
you want to query the virtual server on port 8767 this is what the option would look
like:

Server "8767"

This option, although numeric, needs to be a string, i. e. you must use quotes around
it! If no such statement is given only global information will be collected.

Plugin "ted"
The TED plugin connects to a device of "The Energy Detective", a device to measure power
consumption. These devices are usually connected to a serial (RS232) or USB port. The
plugin opens a configured device and tries to read the current energy readings. For more
information on TED, visit <http://www.theenergydetective.com/>.

Available configuration options:

Device Path
Path to the device on which TED is connected. collectd will need read and write
permissions on that file.

Default: /dev/ttyUSB0

Retries Num
Apparently reading from TED is not that reliable. You can therefore configure a number
of retries here. You only configure the retries here, to if you specify zero, one
reading will be performed (but no retries if that fails); if you specify three, a
maximum of four readings are performed. Negative values are illegal.

Default: 0

Plugin "tcpconns"
The "tcpconns plugin" counts the number of currently established TCP connections based on
the local port and/or the remote port. Since there may be a lot of connections the default
if to count all connections with a local port, for which a listening socket is opened. You
can use the following options to fine-tune the ports you are interested in:

ListeningPorts true|false
If this option is set to true, statistics for all local ports for which a listening
socket exists are collected. The default depends on LocalPort and RemotePort (see
below): If no port at all is specifically selected, the default is to collect
listening ports. If specific ports (no matter if local or remote ports) are selected,
this option defaults to false, i. e. only the selected ports will be collected unless
this option is set to true specifically.

LocalPort Port
Count the connections to a specific local port. This can be used to see how many
connections are handled by a specific daemon, e. g. the mailserver. You have to
specify the port in numeric form, so for the mailserver example you'd need to set 25.

RemotePort Port
Count the connections to a specific remote port. This is useful to see how much a
remote service is used. This is most useful if you want to know how many connections a
local service has opened to remote services, e. g. how many connections a mail server
or news server has to other mail or news servers, or how many connections a web proxy
holds to web servers. You have to give the port in numeric form.

Plugin "thermal"
ForceUseProcfs true|false
By default, the Thermal plugin tries to read the statistics from the Linux "sysfs"
interface. If that is not available, the plugin falls back to the "procfs" interface.
By setting this option to true, you can force the plugin to use the latter. This
option defaults to false.

Device Device
Selects the name of the thermal device that you want to collect or ignore, depending
on the value of the IgnoreSelected option. This option may be used multiple times to
specify a list of devices.

IgnoreSelected true|false
Invert the selection: If set to true, all devices except the ones that match the
device names specified by the Device option are collected. By default only selected
devices are collected if a selection is made. If no selection is configured at all,
all devices are selected.

Plugin "threshold"
The Threshold plugin checks values collected or received by collectd against a
configurable threshold and issues notifications if values are out of bounds.

Documentation for this plugin is available in the collectd-threshold(5) manual page.

Plugin "tokyotyrant"
The TokyoTyrant plugin connects to a TokyoTyrant server and collects a couple metrics:
number of records, and database size on disk.

Host Hostname/IP
The hostname or ip which identifies the server. Default: 127.0.0.1

Port Service/Port
The query port of the server. This needs to be a string, even if the port is given in
its numeric form. Default: 1978

Plugin "unixsock"
SocketFile Path
Sets the socket-file which is to be created.

SocketGroup Group
If running as root change the group of the UNIX-socket after it has been created.
Defaults to collectd.

DeleteSocket false|true
If set to true, delete the socket file before calling bind(2), if a file with the
given name already exists. If collectd crashes a socket file may be left over,
preventing the daemon from opening a new socket when restarted. Since this is
potentially dangerous, this defaults to false.

Plugin "uuid"
This plugin, if loaded, causes the Hostname to be taken from the machine's UUID. The UUID
is a universally unique designation for the machine, usually taken from the machine's
BIOS. This is most useful if the machine is running in a virtual environment such as Xen,
in which case the UUID is preserved across shutdowns and migration.

The following methods are used to find the machine's UUID, in order:

• Check /etc/uuid (or UUIDFile).

• Check for UUID from HAL (<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal>) if present.

• Check for UUID from "dmidecode" / SMBIOS.

• Check for UUID from Xen hypervisor.

If no UUID can be found then the hostname is not modified.

UUIDFile Path
Take the UUID from the given file (default /etc/uuid).

Plugin "varnish"
The 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 <Instance Name> blocks. 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 <Instance> blocks, the following options are recognized:

CollectCache true|false
Cache hits and misses. True by default.

CollectConnections true|false
Number of client connections received, accepted and dropped. True by default.

CollectBackend true|false
Back-end connection statistics, such as successful, reused, and closed connections.
True by default.

CollectSHM true|false
Statistics about the shared memory log, a memory region to store log messages which is
flushed to disk when full. True by default.

CollectBan true|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.

CollectDirectorDNS true|false
DNS director lookup cache statistics. Only available with Varnish 3.x. False by
default.

CollectESI true|false
Edge Side Includes (ESI) parse statistics. False by default.

CollectFetch true|false
Statistics about fetches (HTTP requests sent to the backend). False by default.

CollectHCB true|false
Inserts and look-ups in the crit bit tree based hash. Look-ups are divided into locked
and unlocked look-ups. False by default.

CollectObjects true|false
Statistics on cached objects: number of objects expired, nuked (prematurely expired),
saved, moved, etc. False by default.

CollectPurge true|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.

CollectSession true|false
Client session statistics. Number of past and current sessions, session herd and
linger counters, etc. False by default.

CollectSMA true|false
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.

CollectSMS true|false
synth (synthetic content) storage statistics. This storage component is used
internally only. False by default.

CollectSM true|false
file (memory mapped file) storage statistics. Only available with Varnish 2.x. False
by default.

CollectStruct true|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.

CollectTotals true|false
Collects overview counters, such as the number of sessions created, the number of
requests and bytes transferred. False by default.

CollectUptime true|false
Varnish uptime. False by default.

CollectVCL true|false
Number of total (available + discarded) VCL (config files). False by default.

CollectWorkers true|false
Collect statistics about worker threads. False by default.

Plugin "vmem"
The "vmem" plugin collects information about the usage of virtual memory. Since the
statistics provided by the Linux kernel are very detailed, they are collected very
detailed. However, to get all the details, you have to switch them on manually. Most
people just want an overview over, such as the number of pages read from swap space.

Verbose true|false
Enables verbose collection of information. This will start collecting page "actions",
e. g. page allocations, (de)activations, steals and so on. Part of these statistics
are collected on a "per zone" basis.

Plugin "vserver"
This plugin doesn't have any options. VServer support is only available for Linux. It
cannot yet be found in a vanilla kernel, though. To make use of this plugin you need a
kernel that has VServer support built in, i. e. you need to apply the patches and compile
your own kernel, which will then provide the /proc/virtual filesystem that is required by
this plugin.

The VServer homepage can be found at <http://linux-vserver.org/>.

Note: The traffic collected by this plugin accounts for the amount of traffic passing a
socket which might be a lot less than the actual on-wire traffic (e. g. due to headers and
retransmission). If you want to collect on-wire traffic you could, for example, use the
logging facilities of iptables to feed data for the guest IPs into the iptables plugin.

Plugin "write_graphite"
The "write_graphite" plugin writes data to Graphite, an open-source metrics storage and
graphing project. The plugin connects to Carbon, the data layer of Graphite, via TCP or
UDP and sends data via the "line based" protocol (per default using port 2003). The data
will be sent in blocks of at most 1428 bytes to minimize the number of network packets.

Synopsis:

<Plugin write_graphite>
<Node "example">
Host "localhost"
Port "2003"
Protocol "udp"
LogSendErrors true
Prefix "collectd"
</Node>
</Plugin>

The configuration consists of one or more <Node Name> blocks. Inside the Node blocks, the
following options are recognized:

Host Address
Hostname or address to connect to. Defaults to "localhost".

Port Service
Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to 2003.

Protocol String
Protocol to use when connecting to Graphite. Defaults to "tcp".

LogSendErrors false|true
If set to true (the default), logs errors when sending data to Graphite. If set to
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.

Prefix String
When set, String is added in front of the host name. Dots and whitespace are not
escaped in this string (see EscapeCharacter below).

Postfix String
When set, String is appended to the host name. Dots and whitespace are not escaped in
this string (see EscapeCharacter below).

EscapeCharacter Char
Carbon uses the dot (".") as escape character and doesn't allow whitespace in the
identifier. The EscapeCharacter option determines which character dots, whitespace and
control characters are replaced with. Defaults to underscore ("_").

StoreRates false|true
If set to true (the default), convert counter values to rates. If set to false counter
values are stored as is, i. e. as an increasing integer number.

SeparateInstances false|true
If set to true, the plugin instance and type instance will be in their own path
component, for example "host.cpu.0.cpu.idle". If set to false (the default), the
plugin and plugin instance (and likewise the type and type instance) are put into one
component, for example "host.cpu-0.cpu-idle".

AlwaysAppendDS false|true
If set the true, append the name of the Data Source (DS) to the "metric" identifier.
If set to false (the default), this is only done when there is more than one DS.

Plugin "write_mongodb"
The write_mongodb plugin will send values to MongoDB, a schema-less NoSQL database.

Synopsis:

<Plugin "write_mongodb">
<Node "default">
Host "localhost"
Port "27017"
Timeout 1000
StoreRates true
</Node>
</Plugin>

The plugin can send values to multiple instances of MongoDB by specifying one Node block
for each instance. Within the Node blocks, the following options are available:

Host Address
Hostname or address to connect to. Defaults to "localhost".

Port Service
Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to 27017.

Timeout Timeout
Set the timeout for each operation on MongoDB to Timeout milliseconds. Setting this
option to zero means no timeout, which is the default.

StoreRates false|true
If set to true (the default), convert counter values to rates. If set to false counter
values are stored as is, i.e. as an increasing integer number.

Database Database
User User
Password Password
Sets the information used when authenticating to a MongoDB database. The fields are
optional (in which case no authentication is attempted), but if you want to use
authentication all three fields must be set.

Plugin "write_http"
This output plugin submits values to an http server by POST them using the PUTVAL plain-
text protocol. Each destination you want to post data to needs to have one URL block,
within which the destination can be configured further, for example by specifying
authentication data.

Synopsis:

<Plugin "write_http">
<URL "http://example.com/post-collectd">
User "collectd"
Password "weCh3ik0"
</URL>
</Plugin>

URL blocks need one string argument which is used as the URL to which data is posted. The
following options are understood within URL blocks.

User Username
Optional user name needed for authentication.

Password Password
Optional password needed for authentication.

VerifyPeer true|false
Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
<http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html> for details. Enabled by default.

Format Command|JSON
Format of the output to generate. If set to Command, will create output that is
understood by the Exec and UnixSock plugins. When set to JSON, will create output in
the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).

Defaults to Command.

StoreRates true|false
If set to true, convert counter values to rates. If set to false (the default) counter
values are stored as is, i. e. as an increasing integer number.

Plugin "write_riemann"
The write_riemann plugin will send values to Riemann, a powerfull stream aggregation and
monitoring system. The plugin sends Protobuf encoded data to Riemann using UDP packets.

Synopsis:

<Plugin "write_riemann">
<Node "example">
Host "localhost"
Port "5555"
Protocol UDP
StoreRates true
AlwaysAppendDS false
TTLFactor 2.0
</Node>
Tag "foobar"
</Plugin>

The following options are understood by the write_riemann plugin:

<Node Name>
The plugin's configuration consists of one or more Node blocks. Each block is given a
unique Name and specifies one connection to an instance of Riemann. Indise the Node
block, the following per-connection options are understood:

Host Address
Hostname or address to connect to. Defaults to "localhost".

Port Service
Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to 5555.

Protocol UDP|TCP
Specify the protocol to use when communicating with Riemann. Defaults to UDP.

StoreRates true|false
If set to true (the default), convert counter values to rates. If set to false
counter values are stored as is, i.e. as an increasing integer number.

This will be reflected in the "ds_type" tag: If StoreRates is enabled, converted
values will have "rate" appended to the data source type, e.g.
"ds_type:derive:rate".

AlwaysAppendDS false|true
If set the true, append the name of the Data Source (DS) to the "service", i.e.
the field that, together with the "host" field, uniquely identifies a metric in
Riemann. If set to false (the default), this is only done when there is more than
one DS.

TTLFactor Factor
Riemann events have a Time to Live (TTL) which specifies how long each event is
considered active. 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 2.0. Unless you know exactly what you're doing,
you should only increase this setting from its default value.

Tag String
Add the given string as an additional tag to the metric being sent to Riemann.

THRESHOLD CONFIGURATION

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 recognized, acted upon. The only action collectd takes itself is to generate and
dispatch a "notification". Plugins can register to receive notifications and perform
appropriate further actions.

Since systems and what you expect them to do differ a lot, you can configure thresholds
for your values freely. This gives you a lot of flexibility but also a lot of
responsibility.

Every time a value is out of range a notification is dispatched. This means that the idle
percentage of your CPU needs to be less then the configured threshold only once for a
notification to be generated. There's no such thing as a moving average or similar - at
least not now.

Also, all values that match a threshold are considered to be relevant or "interesting". As
a consequence collectd will issue a notification if they are not received for Timeout
iterations. The Timeout configuration option is explained in section "GLOBAL OPTIONS". If,
for example, Timeout is set to "2" (the default) and some hosts sends it's CPU statistics
to the server every 60 seconds, a notification will be dispatched after about 120 seconds.
It may take a little longer because the timeout is checked only once each Interval on the
server.

When a value comes within range again or is received after it was missing, an "OKAY-
notification" is dispatched.

Here is a configuration example to get you started. Read below for more information.

<Threshold>
<Type "foo">
WarningMin 0.00
WarningMax 1000.00
FailureMin 0.00
FailureMax 1200.00
Invert false
Instance "bar"
</Type>

<Plugin "interface">
Instance "eth0"
<Type "if_octets">
FailureMax 10000000
DataSource "rx"
</Type>
</Plugin>

<Host "hostname">
<Type "cpu">
Instance "idle"
FailureMin 10
</Type>

<Plugin "memory">
<Type "memory">
Instance "cached"
WarningMin 100000000
</Type>
</Plugin>
</Host>
</Threshold>

There are basically two types of configuration statements: The "Host", "Plugin", and
"Type" blocks select the value for which a threshold should be configured. The "Plugin"
and "Type" blocks may be specified further using the "Instance" option. You can combine
the block by nesting the blocks, though they must be nested in the above order, i. e.
"Host" may contain either "Plugin" and "Type" blocks, "Plugin" may only contain "Type"
blocks and "Type" may not contain other blocks. If multiple blocks apply to the same value
the most specific block is used.

The other statements specify the threshold to configure. They must be included in a "Type"
block. Currently the following statements are recognized:

FailureMax Value
WarningMax Value
Sets the upper bound of acceptable values. If unset defaults to positive infinity. If
a value is greater than FailureMax a FAILURE notification will be created. If the
value is greater than WarningMax but less than (or equal to) FailureMax a WARNING
notification will be created.

FailureMin Value
WarningMin Value
Sets the lower bound of acceptable values. If unset defaults to negative infinity. If
a value is less than FailureMin a FAILURE notification will be created. If the value
is less than WarningMin but greater than (or equal to) FailureMin a WARNING
notification will be created.

DataSource DSName
Some data sets have more than one "data source". Interesting examples are the
"if_octets" data set, which has received ("rx") and sent ("tx") bytes and the
"disk_ops" data set, which holds "read" and "write" operations. The system load data
set, "load", even has three data sources: "shortterm", "midterm", and "longterm".

Normally, all data sources are checked against a configured threshold. If this is
undesirable, or if you want to specify different limits for each data source, you can
use the DataSource option to have a threshold apply only to one data source.

Invert true|false
If set to true the range of acceptable values is inverted, i. e. values between
FailureMin and FailureMax (WarningMin and WarningMax) are not okay. Defaults to false.

Persist true|false
Sets how often notifications are generated. If set to true one notification will be
generated for each value that is out of the acceptable range. If set to false (the
default) then a notification is only generated if a value is out of range but the
previous value was okay.

This applies to missing values, too: If set to true a notification about a missing
value is generated once every Interval seconds. If set to false only one such
notification is generated until the value appears again.

Percentage true|false
If set to true, the minimum and maximum values given are interpreted as percentage
value, relative to the other data sources. This is helpful for example for the "df"
type, where you may want to issue a warning when less than 5 % of the total space is
available. Defaults to false.

Hits Number
Delay creating the notification until the threshold has been passed Number times. When
a notification has been generated, or when a subsequent value is inside the threshold,
the counter is reset. If, for example, a value is collected once every 10 seconds and
Hits is set to 3, a notification will be dispatched at most once every 30 seconds.

This is useful when short bursts are not a problem. If, for example, 100% CPU usage
for up to a minute is normal (and data is collected every 10 seconds), you could set
Hits to 6 to account for this.

Hysteresis Number
When set to non-zero, a hysteresis value is applied when checking minimum and maximum
bounds. This is useful for values that increase slowly and fluctuate a bit while doing
so. When these values come close to the threshold, they may "flap", i.e. switch
between failure / warning case and okay case repeatedly.

If, for example, the threshold is configures as

WarningMax 100.0
Hysteresis 1.0

then a Warning notification is created when the value exceeds 101 and the
corresponding Okay notification is only created once the value falls below 99, thus
avoiding the "flapping".

FILTER CONFIGURATION

Starting with collectd 4.6 there is a powerful filtering infrastructure implemented in the
daemon. The concept has mostly been copied from ip_tables, the packet filter
infrastructure for Linux. We'll use a similar terminology, so that users that are familiar
with iptables feel right at home.

Terminology
The following are the terms used in the remainder of the filter configuration
documentation. For an ASCII-art schema of the mechanism, see "General structure" below.

Match
A match is a criteria to select specific values. Examples are, of course, the name of
the value or it's current value.

Matches are implemented in plugins which you have to load prior to using the match.
The name of such plugins starts with the "match_" prefix.

Target
A target is some action that is to be performed with data. Such actions could, for
example, be to change part of the value's identifier or to ignore the value
completely.

Some of these targets are built into the daemon, see "Built-in targets" below. Other
targets are implemented in plugins which you have to load prior to using the target.
The name of such plugins starts with the "target_" prefix.

Rule
The combination of any number of matches and at least one target is called a rule. The
target actions will be performed for all values for which all matches apply. If the
rule does not have any matches associated with it, the target action will be performed
for all values.

Chain
A chain is a list of rules and possibly default targets. The rules are tried in order
and if one matches, the associated target will be called. If a value is handled by a
rule, it depends on the target whether or not any subsequent rules are considered or
if traversal of the chain is aborted, see "Flow control" below. After all rules have
been checked, the default targets will be executed.

General structure
The following shows the resulting structure:

+---------+
! Chain !
+---------+
!
V
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+ +---------+
! Rule !->! Match !->! Match !->! Target !
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+ +---------+
!
V
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+
! Rule !->! Target !->! Target !
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+
!
V
:
:
!
V
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+
! Rule !->! Match !->! Target !
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+
!
V
+---------+
! Default !
! Target !
+---------+

Flow control
There are four ways to control which way a value takes through the filter mechanism:

jump
The built-in jump target can be used to "call" another chain, i. e. process the value
with another chain. When the called chain finishes, usually the next target or rule
after the jump is executed.

stop
The stop condition, signaled for example by the built-in target stop, causes all
processing of the value to be stopped immediately.

return
Causes processing in the current chain to be aborted, but processing of the value
generally will continue. This means that if the chain was called via Jump, the next
target or rule after the jump will be executed. If the chain was not called by another
chain, control will be returned to the daemon and it may pass the value to another
chain.

continue
Most targets will signal the continue condition, meaning that processing should
continue normally. There is no special built-in target for this condition.

Synopsis
The configuration reflects this structure directly:

PostCacheChain "PostCache"
<Chain "PostCache">
<Rule "ignore_mysql_show">
<Match "regex">
Plugin "^mysql$"
Type "^mysql_command$"
TypeInstance "^show_"
</Match>
<Target "stop">
</Target>
</Rule>
<Target "write">
Plugin "rrdtool"
</Target>
</Chain>

The above configuration example will ignore all values where the plugin field is "mysql",
the type is "mysql_command" and the type instance begins with "show_". All other values
will be sent to the "rrdtool" write plugin via the default target of the chain. Since this
chain is run after the value has been added to the cache, the MySQL "show_*" command
statistics will be available via the "unixsock" plugin.

List of configuration options
PreCacheChain ChainName
PostCacheChain ChainName
Configure the name of the "pre-cache chain" and the "post-cache chain". The argument
is the name of a chain that should be executed before and/or after the values have
been added to the cache.

To understand the implications, it's important you know what is going on inside
collectd. The following diagram shows how values are passed from the read-plugins to
the write-plugins:

+---------------+
! Read-Plugin !
+-------+-------+
!
+ - - - - V - - - - +
: +---------------+ :
: ! Pre-Cache ! :
: ! Chain ! :
: +-------+-------+ :
: ! :
: V :
: +-------+-------+ : +---------------+
: ! Cache !--->! Value Cache !
: ! insert ! : +---+---+-------+
: +-------+-------+ : ! !
: ! ,------------' !
: V V : V
: +-------+---+---+ : +-------+-------+
: ! Post-Cache +--->! Write-Plugins !
: ! Chain ! : +---------------+
: +---------------+ :
: :
: dispatch values :
+ - - - - - - - - - +

After the values are passed from the "read" plugins to the dispatch functions, the
pre-cache chain is run first. The values are added to the internal cache afterwards.
The post-cache chain is run after the values have been added to the cache. So why is
it such a huge deal if chains are run before or after the values have been added to
this cache?

Targets that change the identifier of a value list should be executed before the
values are added to the cache, so that the name in the cache matches the name that is
used in the "write" plugins. The "unixsock" plugin, too, uses this cache to receive a
list of all available values. If you change the identifier after the value list has
been added to the cache, this may easily lead to confusion, but it's not forbidden of
course.

The cache is also used to convert counter values to rates. These rates are, for
example, used by the "value" match (see below). If you use the rate stored in the
cache before the new value is added, you will use the old, previous rate. Write
plugins may use this rate, too, see the "csv" plugin, for example. The "unixsock"
plugin uses these rates too, to implement the "GETVAL" command.

Last but not last, the stop target makes a difference: If the pre-cache chain returns
the stop condition, the value will not be added to the cache and the post-cache chain
will not be run.

Chain Name
Adds a new chain with a certain name. This name can be used to refer to a specific
chain, for example to jump to it.

Within the Chain block, there can be Rule blocks and Target blocks.

Rule [Name]
Adds a new rule to the current chain. The name of the rule is optional and currently
has no meaning for the daemon.

Within the Rule block, there may be any number of Match blocks and there must be at
least one Target block.

Match Name
Adds a match to a Rule block. The name specifies what kind of match should be
performed. Available matches depend on the plugins that have been loaded.

The arguments inside the Match block are passed to the plugin implementing the match,
so which arguments are valid here depends on the plugin being used. If you do not
need any to pass any arguments to a match, you can use the shorter syntax:

Match "foobar"

Which is equivalent to:

Target Name
Add a target to a rule or a default target to a chain. The name specifies what kind of
target is to be added. Which targets are available depends on the plugins being
loaded.

The arguments inside the Target block are passed to the plugin implementing the
target, so which arguments are valid here depends on the plugin being used. If you do
not need any to pass any arguments to a target, you can use the shorter syntax:

Target "stop"

This is the same as writing:

Built-in targets
The following targets are built into the core daemon and therefore need no plugins to be
loaded:

return
Signals the "return" condition, see the "Flow control" section above. This causes the
current chain to stop processing the value and returns control to the calling chain.
The calling chain will continue processing targets and rules just after the jump
target (see below). This is very similar to the RETURN target of iptables, see
iptables(8).

This target does not have any options.

Example:

Target "return"

stop
Signals the "stop" condition, see the "Flow control" section above. This causes
processing of the value to be aborted immediately. This is similar to the DROP target
of iptables, see iptables(8).

This target does not have any options.

Example:

Target "stop"

write
Sends the value to "write" plugins.

Available options:

Plugin Name
Name of the write plugin to which the data should be sent. This option may be
given multiple times to send the data to more than one write plugin.

If no plugin is explicitly specified, the values will be sent to all available write
plugins.

Example:

<Target "write">
Plugin "rrdtool"
</Target>

jump
Starts processing the rules of another chain, see "Flow control" above. If the end of
that chain is reached, or a stop condition is encountered, processing will continue
right after the jump target, i. e. with the next target or the next rule. This is
similar to the -j command line option of iptables, see iptables(8).

Available options:

Chain Name
Jumps to the chain Name. This argument is required and may appear only once.

Example:

<Target "jump">
Chain "foobar"
</Target>

Available matches
regex
Matches a value using regular expressions.

Available options:

Host Regex
Plugin Regex
PluginInstance Regex
Type Regex
TypeInstance Regex
Match values where the given regular expressions match the various fields of the
identifier of a value. If multiple regular expressions are given, all regexen must
match for a value to match.

Invert false|true
When set to true, the result of the match is inverted, i.e. all value lists where
all regular expressions apply are not matched, all other value lists are matched.
Defaults to false.

Example:

<Match "regex">
Host "customer[0-9]+"
Plugin "^foobar$"
</Match>

timediff
Matches values that have a time which differs from the time on the server.

This match is mainly intended for servers that receive values over the "network"
plugin and write them to disk using the "rrdtool" plugin. RRDtool is very sensitive to
the timestamp used when updating the RRD files. In particular, the time must be ever
increasing. If a misbehaving client sends one packet with a timestamp far in the
future, all further packets with a correct time will be ignored because of that one
packet. What's worse, such corrupted RRD files are hard to fix.

This match lets one match all values outside a specified time range (relative to the
server's time), so you can use the stop target (see below) to ignore the value, for
example.

Available options:

Future Seconds
Matches all values that are ahead of the server's time by Seconds or more seconds.
Set to zero for no limit. Either Future or Past must be non-zero.

Past Seconds
Matches all values that are behind of the server's time by Seconds or more
seconds. Set to zero for no limit. Either Future or Past must be non-zero.

Example:

<Match "timediff">
Future 300
Past 3600
</Match>

This example matches all values that are five minutes or more ahead of the server or
one hour (or more) lagging behind.

value
Matches the actual value of data sources against given minimum / maximum values. If a
data-set consists of more than one data-source, all data-sources must match the
specified ranges for a positive match.

Available options:

Min Value
Sets the smallest value which still results in a match. If unset, behaves like
negative infinity.

Max Value
Sets the largest value which still results in a match. If unset, behaves like
positive infinity.

Invert true|false
Inverts the selection. If the Min and Max settings result in a match, no-match is
returned and vice versa. Please note that the Invert setting only effects how Min
and Max are applied to a specific value. Especially the DataSource and Satisfy
settings (see below) are not inverted.

DataSource DSName [DSName ...]
Select one or more of the data sources. If no data source is configured, all data
sources will be checked. If the type handled by the match does not have a data
source of the specified name(s), this will always result in no match (independent
of the Invert setting).

Satisfy Any|All
Specifies how checking with several data sources is performed. If set to Any, the
match succeeds if one of the data sources is in the configured range. If set to
All the match only succeeds if all data sources are within the configured range.
Default is All.

Usually All is used for positive matches, Any is used for negative matches. This
means that with All you usually check that all values are in a "good" range, while
with Any you check if any value is within a "bad" range (or outside the "good"
range).

Either Min or Max, but not both, may be unset.

Example:

# Match all values smaller than or equal to 100. Matches only if all data
# sources are below 100.
<Match "value">
Max 100
Satisfy "All"
</Match>

# Match if the value of any data source is outside the range of 0 - 100.
<Match "value">
Min 0
Max 100
Invert true
Satisfy "Any"
</Match>

empty_counter
Matches all values with one or more data sources of type COUNTER and where all counter
values are zero. These counters usually never increased since they started existing
(and are therefore uninteresting), or got reset recently or overflowed and you had
really, really bad luck.

Please keep in mind that ignoring such counters can result in confusing behavior:
Counters which hardly ever increase will be zero for long periods of time. If the
counter is reset for some reason (machine or service restarted, usually), the graph
will be empty (NAN) for a long time. People may not understand why.

hashed
Calculates a hash value of the host name and matches values according to that hash
value. This makes it possible to divide all hosts into groups and match only values
that are in a specific group. The intended use is in load balancing, where you want to
handle only part of all data and leave the rest for other servers.

The hashing function used tries to distribute the hosts evenly. First, it calculates a
32 bit hash value using the characters of the hostname:

hash_value = 0;
for (i = 0; host[i] != 0; i++)
hash_value = (hash_value * 251) + host[i];

The constant 251 is a prime number which is supposed to make this hash value more
random. The code then checks the group for this host according to the Total and Match
arguments:

if ((hash_value % Total) == Match)
matches;
else
does not match;

Please note that when you set Total to two (i. e. you have only two groups), then the
least significant bit of the hash value will be the XOR of all least significant bits
in the host name. One consequence is that when you have two hosts,
"server0.example.com" and "server1.example.com", where the host name differs in one
digit only and the digits differ by one, those hosts will never end up in the same
group.

Available options:

Match Match Total
Divide the data into Total groups and match all hosts in group Match as described
above. The groups are numbered from zero, i. e. Match must be smaller than Total.
Total must be at least one, although only values greater than one really do make
any sense.

You can repeat this option to match multiple groups, for example:

Match 3 7
Match 5 7

The above config will divide the data into seven groups and match groups three and
five. One use would be to keep every value on two hosts so that if one fails the
missing data can later be reconstructed from the second host.

Example:

# Operate on the pre-cache chain, so that ignored values are not even in the
# global cache.
<Chain "PreCache">
<Rule>
<Match "hashed">
# Divide all received hosts in seven groups and accept all hosts in
# group three.
Match 3 7
</Match>
# If matched: Return and continue.
Target "return"
</Rule>
# If not matched: Return and stop.
Target "stop"
</Chain>

Available targets
notification
Creates and dispatches a notification.

Available options:

Message String
This required option sets the message of the notification. The following
placeholders will be replaced by an appropriate value:

%{host}
%{plugin}
%{plugin_instance}
%{type}
%{type_instance}
These placeholders are replaced by the identifier field of the same name.

%{ds:name}
These placeholders are replaced by a (hopefully) human readable representation
of the current rate of this data source. If you changed the instance name
(using the set or replace targets, see below), it may not be possible to
convert counter values to rates.

Please note that these placeholders are case sensitive!

Severity "FAILURE"|"WARNING"|"OKAY"
Sets the severity of the message. If omitted, the severity "WARNING" is used.

Example:

<Target "notification">
Message "Oops, the %{type_instance} temperature is currently %{ds:value}!"
Severity "WARNING"
</Target>

replace
Replaces parts of the identifier using regular expressions.

Available options:

Host Regex Replacement
Plugin Regex Replacement
PluginInstance Regex Replacement
TypeInstance Regex Replacement
Match the appropriate field with the given regular expression Regex. If the
regular expression matches, that part that matches is replaced with Replacement.
If multiple places of the input buffer match a given regular expression, only the
first occurrence will be replaced.

You can specify each option multiple times to use multiple regular expressions one
after another.

Example:

<Target "replace">
# Replace "example.net" with "example.com"
Host "\\<example.net\\>" "example.com"

# Strip "www." from hostnames
Host "\\<www\\." ""
</Target>

set Sets part of the identifier of a value to a given string.

Available options:

Host String
Plugin String
PluginInstance String
TypeInstance String
Set the appropriate field to the given string. The strings for plugin instance and
type instance may be empty, the strings for host and plugin may not be empty. It's
currently not possible to set the type of a value this way.

Example:

<Target "set">
PluginInstance "coretemp"
TypeInstance "core3"
</Target>

Backwards compatibility
If you use collectd with an old configuration, i. e. one without a Chain block, it will
behave as it used to. This is equivalent to the following configuration:

<Chain "PostCache">
Target "write"
</Chain>

If you specify a PostCacheChain, the write target will not be added anywhere and you will
have to make sure that it is called where appropriate. We suggest to add the above snippet
as default target to your "PostCache" chain.

Examples
Ignore all values, where the hostname does not contain a dot, i. e. can't be an FQDN.

<Chain "PreCache">
<Rule "no_fqdn">
<Match "regex">
Host "^[^\.]*$"
</Match>
Target "stop"
</Rule>
Target "write"
</Chain>

AUTHOR

       Florian Forster <octo@verplant.org>

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

GLOBAL OPTIONS

PLUGIN OPTIONS

THRESHOLD CONFIGURATION

FILTER CONFIGURATION

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR