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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collectd stores NaN instead of correct value in ubuntu 12.04
I installed collectd using sudo apt-get install collectd on my ubuntu 12.04, but it just collect NaN values in the rrd files. for example for file named memory-used.rrd this is the values it saved.
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How to get the number of mysql updates per second with collectd?
The man page for the mysql plugin states that the values are per second, but I've set up an HTTP server for the write_http plugin and I receive strings like PUTVAL r6/mysql-wormly_shm/mysql_commands-update interval=2 1336122875:6279, where 6279 is…

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collectd plugins installation?
I'm starting to configure collectd, but the main problem I got is that when I load the Network plugin it says next:
Could not find plugin network.
Found a configuration for the `network' plugin, but the plugin isn't loaded or didn't register a…

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Collectd retrieving only NaN on Xen dom0
For some reason Collectd works fine on all my virtual servers, but on the dom0 of my Xen setup it keeps returning a value of NaN, I have checked the RRD files and it seems somehow all plugins are returning NaN values.
Now NaN meaning "Not a Number"…

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Collect SNMP data from on-prem assets and send it to Azure log management
I want to collect SNMP data from my on-prem equipment and send it to Azure log management.
To be more precise, I have a Linux virtual machine running in Azure that is to collect SNMP data from my on-prem router and send that data to my Azure log…

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Influxdb is not showing up the measurement name which is pushed by collectd exec plugin
Am using collectd to collect the system metric and pushing into influx db.
To monitor the running process I wrote a script leveraged the collectd exec plugin to push my custo m metric into influx db... My script for exec plugin is…

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How to get the exact used RAM percentage in Grafana?
AM using collectd to collect the metrics from the system, am using Influxdb as a database to collectd the metrics and Grafana for visualization.
I need only the used RAM memory in percentage to display in grafana....
I need only the used memory…

adiya joshi
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How to push system metric from one machine to another in linux using collectd?
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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Collectd running but not collecting anything?
This is only my third installation of collectd.
Previous two went without a hitch. However, on this server (Centos 5.3) it starts and collects absolutely nothing. Directory where it should be collecting ( /opt/collectd/var/lib/collectd ) to remains…

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Collectd won't open listener
So I've been stuck with this for sometime now. I want to use collectd with graphite. Im using centos 7. I've made the necessary changes in collectd.conf as seen below:
[root@relay-1 ~]# grep -v "#" /etc/collectd.conf
LoadPlugin syslog
LoadPlugin…

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Reporting units for user and system CPU usage for individual process via collectd
I've been using the collectd:Process Plugin to monitor the per process metrics on a Linux server I'm running. It is just that there are no information about the units for which process use the CPU time.
From the embedded link,
The statistics…

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Weird metric value in graphite from collectd
I wrote custom python plugin for collectd:
import collectd
import random
def read_callback():
value = random.randint(0, 1500)
val = collectd.Values()
val.plugin = 'test'
val.plugin_instance = 'random'
val.type = 'counter'
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collectd server not starting
luvpreet@luvpreet-vm:/usr/local$ sudo collectd-server start
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
/usr/local/bin/collectd-server: 8: /usr/local/bin/collectd-server: [[: not found
-e Server has stopped
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collectd folder /etc/collectd/collectd.conf not found in centos 7.2
In CentOS 7.2 using yum I installed collectd (collectd.x86_64 0:5.5.2-1.el7)
I followed the instruction in the below
http://www.tecmint.com/install-collectd-and-collectd-web-to-monitor-server-resources-in-linux/
It looks like it did not create…

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what is the default location where metrics are stored after installing collectd?
I installed Collectd in CentOS 7.2 I followed the link.
http://www.tecmint.com/install-collectd-and-collectd-web-to-monitor-server-resources-in-linux/2/
After I started Collectd from what I read the one of the default metric is CPU. I was not able…

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