collectd is a high definition,plugin based, performance and statistics monitor/collector for networks. It runs on linux and solaris systems.
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Port is added to IP table but why not listening?
I have two centos Machine, Machine A and Machine B. In machine A i have installed collectd and influxdb. So, the system metric from machine A is pushed into influxdb using collectd. I have installed collectd in machine B. Now, I need to push the…

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setcap breaks systemd permissions
adding SMART plugin utility to collectd version 5.8
get a warning about lack of permissions to collect I/O data:
Nov 9 13:27:40 db07 collectd[35127]: smart plugin: Running collectd as root,
but the CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability is missing. The…

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Collectd on Solaris NFS server
I have collectd running on an NFS ZFS Solaris based server gathering NFS performance data points. Where does collectd store this information by default.

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Aggregating stats from events old and new
We'd like to feed CDN logs into Graphite and aggregate numbers found in there (rate of different HTTP status-codes, average response sizes, average cache-hit ratio, etc.)
However, the logs are only uploaded to us occasionally and some times even out…

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Collectd and exec: line 1329 near `': syntax error, unexpected EOL
Trying to use exec plugin with collectd:
/etc/collectd.conf:
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LoadPlugin exec
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Exec "nobody:nobody" "/etc/collectd.d/redis_simple.sh"
I've simplified /etc/collectd.d/redis_simple.sh to this:
#!/bin/bash
while…

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Collectd SNMP plugin unable to find MIB
Using Collectd to poll Cisco gear via the snmp plugin. I have the needed Cisco mibs (CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-MIB and CISCO-PROCESS-MIB) loaded into net-snmp and snmpwalk can see them fine.
But when I try to add them into collectd I get the following…

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Aggregate Disks in Collectd or Graphite/Grafana
I have multiple nodes, each with multiple disks of the same size. I'd like for either
collectd to report a single used/free metric that is the aggregate of these multiple disks
construct a grafana query that combines multiple disks into a single…

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using kapacitor with influxdb and collectd
I'm trying to integrate Kapacitor with our influxdb and collectd setup. However, It doesn't seem to work, and I don't understand why.
Collectd and Influxdb are running correctly, and I think Kapacitor is able to connect to influxdb. In the kapacitor…

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Using multiple instances of rrdcached on a single server?
I'm trying to figure out the best way to use rrdcached on a single server for multiple graphing tools. Currently I'm using cacti, observium and collectd on the same server (running CentOS 6.7) that all use rrdtool to create graphs. While following a…

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collectd: using dynamic IP for network plugin
I've setting up a server which collects statistics of different other servers. I'm using the network plugin of collectd, so I configured the plugin network by setting up a listener.
In my network, I can use the private IP for "Server" in the…

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Sharing Collectd data with Apache on CentOS (SELinux)
My CentOS 7 VPS has SELinux enabled and is monitored by Collectd. It uses rrdtool to log the reported data. Pommi released a great solution that made me able to review all data on a webpage called CGP…

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Graphite not accepting data from collectd
I am currently having an issue with getting collectd 5.4.0 to work with graphite/carbon.
I am currently using the write_graphite plugin with collectd with the following configuration:
Host "127.0.0.1"
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collectd: ping plugin fail randomly on medium/high number of hosts
I am trying to use collectd to monitor ping time and interface traffic of upwards of a 150 hosts, using the snmp and ping plugins (nodes are mostly routers). The servers reads stats (ping/snmp) and writes them to disk via the rrdtool plugin. All is…

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Need sflow, ceilometer or healthmon output files
I am currently working on a mini-project in my college. It is a billing module for an openstack based private cloud. I need to read the usage from database which stores the amount of resources used and generate an invoice from them. For testing my…

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Collectd Network plugins didn't open listening port
I tried to send the monitoring data to my centralized collectd and found this error in the log
[2013-08-09 07:04:22] bind: Cannot assign requested address
[2013-08-09 07:04:22] network plugin: network_config_add_listen: sockent_open failed.
with…

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