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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 is not working on centos 7.2 azure vm

I have a freshly install collectd on a new Centos7.2 64bit . I followed the instruction based on the below link https://devops.profitbricks.com/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-collectd-and-collectd-web-to-monitor-a-centos-7-server/ the web…
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Collectd Permission denied to Log File

I have collectd running and I start it as root with: service collectd start However, I am not able to see the logs. I get the following when I run: service collectd status: logfile plugin: fopen (/var/log/collectd/collectd.log) failed: Permission…
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How am I expected to configure a central collectd server?

I want to have a central collectd server which gathers statistics from other servers, stores it to RRD files and forwards it to logstash. here are the relevant parts of /etc/collectd/collectd.conf on the central server:
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Using collectd and kapacitor - not triggering alerts

I am trying to get kapacitor to trigger an alert based on collectd data in influxdb. Am basing my tick file on the answer in using kapacitor with influxdb and collectd. stream // Select just the cpu measurement from our example database. |from() …
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grafana / collectd Write Graphite plugin change timestamp

I am using collectd with write_graphite plugin to monitor mysql. I am using EDT on my server and when creating dashboards on grafana I can only use UTC/browser time. I want to know if there is an option to display the mysql server time (EDT) on…
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CPU usage plot in Grafana

I am trying to plot CPU usage in Grafana. Collectd gives metric to InfluxDB and I get metric from Influxdb into Grafana. I have tried taking derivative of last value but CPU is in negative. I want it to be in percentage. I have cpu…
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Collectd --> Elasticsearch if remote-host can't connect to central elasticsearch

Goal Central storage and way to analyze performance numbers: cpu load ram usage ... Current strategy I would like to implement a setup like this: collectd logstash elasticsearch kibana Like explained…
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Can the metrics collected by collectd be given new prefixes?

I am using collectd write_http plugin to send metrics to Librato. The only thing I would like to change is the way the metrics appear in Librato. The metrics (not the sources which can be named in the collectd.conf file) all have the following…
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collectd won't recognize my python plugin

I am trying to load a super simple plugin I found online as a starting point, and collectd doesn't seem to recognize my python plugin. My conf file has the appropriate lines: Globals true ... …
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New data source in collectd

Collectd has different data source types like Gauge, Derive, Counter and Absolute. Lets take derive data source type. It basically gives rate of change. i.e (new_value - old_value ) / (new_time - old_time). All I am interested is only in the…
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How can I get the CPU usage for a given process out of collectd?

I'm running multiple ubuntu (precise) boxes & I've got collectd pushing data up to a central logstash box, which is then sending it to carbon (graphite). I'm running the processes plugin for collectd, which gives CPU time with a 10 second interval. …
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collectd: Do I need the same plugins on client and server?

If I'm using multiple clients that connect to one server to send stats from collectd do I need to enable on server the same plugins that are enabled on client? Or is the data already processed and somehow labeled for use by server?
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How to get rrdcached configured for collectd on CentOS 6.4?

I am trying to build collectd 5.2 on CentOS 6.4. I am unable to configure it with rrdcached. I have installd rrdtool-devel and related packages. Googling did not reveal anything which works. Any hints?
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How do I get the Graphite webapp to (re)read what's currently coming from collectd?

I have collectd running the tail plugin and writing data out using the write_graphite plugin (via carbon). This seems to work. If I then change the tail plugin config (e.g. change the Regex or DSType), and restart collectd, graphite stops showing me…
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Collectd+drraw meanings of Min, Avr, Max, Last

I am setting up a Collectd server along with drraw. When I go to graph out a data source I am asked to select "min, avr, max" and "last" I take that the last option is the LATEST data point (but it's missing from my collectd data files or drraw…
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