[collectd] Version 6.0.0.rc3 is available.

2024-02-22 Thread Florian Forster
Hi all, I have created another pre-relese of collectd 6, version 6.0.0.rc3. It contains the following changes: 2024-02-21, Version 6.0.0.rc3 * Daemon: Two new metric types have been added: "up down counters" in integer and floating point variants. Thanks to @octo. #4287

[collectd] Version 6.0.0.rc2 is available.

2024-02-07 Thread Florian Forster
Hi all, a new pre-release of collectd 6, version 6.0.0.rc2, is available. There also was an "rc1" release last week and I'll summarize both below. That plan is to have more frequent, smaller releases to get fixes and features into users' hands faster. Most important changes: * Floating point

[collectd] Version 6.0.0.rc0 is available.

2024-01-23 Thread Florian Forster
Hi all, TLDR: collectd 6.0.0.rc0 is a pre-release of the new major version. Our aim is to closely align with OpenTelemetry. Please take it for a spin and provide feedback. I'm very happy to announce that collectd 6.0.0.rc0 is available for download. This is a preview of collectd's next major

[collectd] Wiki migration to Github

2023-11-20 Thread Florian Forster
Hi list, I am in the process of migrating the collectd wiki to Github. The new location of the wiki is: https://github.com/collectd/collectd/wiki collectd currently uses a Mediawiki instance for much of the documentation. While this has served us well so far, it has some downsides: * We had to

[collectd] Version 6: update and call for help

2020-09-25 Thread Florian Forster
Hi all, I have made some progress towards a new major version, collectd 6, and wanted to give an update. It is now in a state that individual plugins need to be migrated, and I'm relying on community contributions for this. The new major version has two fundamental changes from version 5,

[collectd] 5.12 release timeline

2020-08-21 Thread Florian Forster
Hi everybody, in the recent community calls [0] we discussed the 5.12 release timeline. Unfortunately I screwed up and didn't write this email earlier, as we had agreed. Apologies! I have just created the 5.12 branch. We'll use the next two weeks to stabilize the branch, ideally merging

Re: [collectd] Changing collectd's main branch.

2020-07-03 Thread Florian Forster
Hi all, I have updated all pull requests to use "main" as their base branch instead of "master", i.e. the branch they target for merging into. Pull requests with other base branches were not modified. Best regards, —octo -- collectd – The system statistics collection daemon Website:

[collectd] Changing collectd's main branch.

2020-06-28 Thread Florian Forster
Hi everybody, as discussed at the community call last Monday, I have created a new branch, "main", which will be our default branch going forward. The branch has the same configuration as the "master" branch. To update an existing local repository, use: $ git checkout main Branch 'main'

Re: [collectd] Requesting a Collectd.org wiki account

2020-06-08 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Michael, just created an account for you, the details are in a separate email. Thanks for your contribution! Best regards, —octo -- collectd – The system statistics collection daemon Website: http://collectd.org GitHub: https://github.com/collectd Twitter: http://twitter.com/collectd

[collectd] go-collectd 0.5.0 is available

2020-06-08 Thread Florian Forster
Hi all! A new version of go-collectd is available. "go-collectd" refers to the packages supporting Go programmers in interacting with the collectd daemon. The primary change in this version is that support for config callbacks has been added to "collectd.org/plugin", the package that allows to

[collectd] Community call – Meeting notes

2020-05-29 Thread Florian Forster
Hi all, thanks again for joining today's community call. The meeting notes are here: https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Minutes_from_2020-05-29 This was a short meeting, likely due to a lack of agenda items. I'd like to encourage everyone to contribute to the meeting. Bring your questions,

Re: [collectd] Collectd bi-weekley call - agenda 15th May

2020-05-15 Thread Florian Forster
Hi all, thanks for meeting today. The meeting minutes can be found here: https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Minutes_from_2020-05-15 Best regards, —octo On 2020-05-14 19:03, Kobylinski, Michal wrote: Hi Folks, tomorrow (Friday, 15th May at 2PM(UTC)/7AM(PST)) we will have next collectd

Re: [collectd] RFC: Should we maintain plugins written in Go?

2020-04-28 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Sunku! On 2020-04-28 01:49, Ranganath, Sunku wrote: Being a new user to Go, have you considered 'Plugin' package of Go [3] for shared object creation? I think the "plugin" package would be useful if we implemented a "golang" plugin that functions similarly to the "Perl", "Python", and

Re: [collectd] RFC: Should we maintain plugins written in Go?

2020-04-27 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Matthias, On 2020-04-27 10:08, Matthias Runge wrote: While I also like the idea to provide a "repository" for exec plugins, or a list of exec plugins, I wonder if we would like to add any limitations? Would we "support" an exec plugin written in scheme? What would it mean, if a plugin is

Re: [collectd] RFC: Should we maintain plugins written in Go?

2020-04-27 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Nick, thank you very much for your perspective! I wasn't previously aware of the collectd-plugin crate, thank you so much for creating it! De-coupling plugin releases from daemon releases was something that we discussed for C-based plugins, too. Unfortunately detangling those plugins is

Re: [collectd] collectd for embedded, time tag

2020-04-23 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Denys, On 2020-04-23 12:14, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: I can try to write patch, for example: that'd great! Extending sockent_t by adding there uint8_t (or int) "options" parameter, where certain optional bits can be set. So, for example bit 0 will be "ZERO_AS_CURRENT_TIME" Then,

Re: [collectd] collectd for embedded, time tag

2020-04-23 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Denys, right now, the network plugin treats a zero time as an error and won't pass the metric on to the daemon. The "collectd.org/network" Go package doesn't appear to do this check. How does sleeping work on the ESP8266? Could you keep track of the time spent sleeping and increment the

[collectd] RFC: Should we maintain plugins written in Go?

2020-04-23 Thread Florian Forster
Hi everybody, TL,DR: Should we create a new Git repository and maintain plugins written in the "Go" programming language? the last days, I spent some time improving the "collectd.org/plugin" package [0]. In a nutshell, it allows to implement a plugin in Go, compile it to a shared object and

Re: [collectd] Sensors Plugin / syntax

2020-04-22 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Holger, judging from the quick look at the code the config should look like this: Sensor "coretemp-isa-/temperature-Core 0" Sensor "coretemp-isa-/temperature-Core 1" IgnoreSelected false UseLabels true (Note the missing "sensors-" prefix.)

[collectd] Version 5.9.0 available

2019-06-13 Thread Florian Forster
, Anthony Vickers, Antoine Naud, Baruch Siach, Brian ONeill, Charalampos Stratakis, Chris Mayo, Christian Ekstam, Ciara Loftus, Dagobert Michelsen, Dan Cech, Dan Fandrich, Daniel Golle, Dhrupad Bhardwaj, Dimitrios Apostolou, Dylan Stephano-Shachter, elieyal, Evgeny Naumov, Fabien Wernli, Florian Forster

Re: [collectd] Read callback return value

2018-11-15 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Oleg, returning non-zero triggers an exponential backoff, which is likely not the best option for temporary failures such as timeouts. https://github.com/collectd/collectd/blob/master/src/daemon/plugin.c#L542 Best regards, —octo -- Florian octo Forster Hacker in training GnuPG: 0x0C705A15

Re: [collectd] [Libguestfs] collectd leaks SIGCHLD == SIG_IGN into plugins

2018-11-13 Thread Florian Forster
A quick glance shows that the exec plugin actually is clearing the signal mask: https://github.com/collectd/collectd/blob/master/src/exec.c#L526 Can you give some more context when this problem comes up? Ideally in a Github issue (hint, hint ;). -- Florian octo Forster Hacker in training GnuPG:

Re: [collectd] [Libguestfs] collectd leaks SIGCHLD == SIG_IGN into plugins

2018-11-13 Thread Florian Forster
Hi, thank you very much for reporting this! Sounds like a bug in the exec plugin – it never ceases to amaze me how many issues a single plugin can have ;) > > > This means that any plugin that does the usual pattern of: > > > > > > pid = fork (); Note that the exec plugin is the *only*

Re: [collectd] Interested in doing a workshop kind of contributor meetup?

2018-11-08 Thread Florian Forster
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:03:13PM +0100, Matthias Runge wrote: > Thoughts? Oh, I managed to reply before being fully caught up; sorry about that :/ -- Florian octo Forster Hacker in training GnuPG: 0x0C705A15 http://octo.it/ ___ collectd mailing

Re: [collectd] Interested in doing a workshop kind of contributor meetup?

2018-11-08 Thread Florian Forster
> > > Thanks, > Sunku Ranganath > > > -Original Message- > From: collectd [mailto:collectd-boun...@verplant.org] On Behalf Of Matthias > Runge > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 4:03 AM > To: Florian Forster ; collectd@verplant.org > Subject: Re: [collectd] Inte

Re: [collectd] Interested in doing a workshop kind of contributor meetup?

2018-10-27 Thread Florian Forster
Hi everyone, that's a great idea! I've talked to Matthias and we'll try to organize a venue in München, Germany where both of us work. Arranging something on a work day is going to be easier than on the weekend, at least if one of our employers is hosting us. In any event, knowing the number of

[collectd] Version 5.8.1 has been released

2018-10-25 Thread Florian Forster
: e796fda27ce06377f491ad91aa286962a68c2b54076aa77a29673d53204453da Contributors * Aleksei Zakharov * Dagobert Michelsen * Daniel Vrátil * Dylan Stephano-Shachter * Florian Forster * Jan-Philipp Litza * Kamil Wiatrowski * Marc Fournier * Mariusz Bialonczyk * Mariusz Gronczewski

Re: [collectd] Plugin interface stability

2018-10-25 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Oleg, On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 04:17:07PM +0200, Oleg Rosowiecki wrote: > and found the note at the bottom of the page that no attempt is made to make > the plugin API backwards-compatible and it may change any time. that refers to the C API only. I've updated

Re: [collectd] cpu.c is actually C99

2017-11-24 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Mike and Konstantin, On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 09:51:52PM +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > > --- > > This was a new overloaded meaning given to static in C99. It is more than a > > decade and a half old, but not all compiler writers have embraced all of C99 > > features -- so C99 as a whole

[collectd] Version 5.8.0 available.

2017-11-18 Thread Florian Forster
, Carlos Vicente, Christian Bartolomäus, Christian Ehrhardt, Clemens Gruber, Damian Bogel, daniacs, Default, Denes Matetelki, Denis jawa Pompilio, Denis Silakov, Denys Fedoryshchenko, Ed Ravin, Florian Forster, Francesco Romani, Igor Pavlikevich, Ivan Kurnosov, jaroug, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas, Jiri

[collectd] Release candidate for 5.8.0

2017-11-03 Thread Florian Forster
Hi everybody, the upcoming version 5.8.0 is in feature freeze, meaning that no additional features will be merged into that release. We intend to release 5.8.0 on November 15, giving us a little under two weeks to weed out bugs and make the releasee more stable. I've created a release candidate,

Re: [collectd] Feature freeze for version 5.8 on Nov 1

2017-10-31 Thread Florian Forster
Hello, On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 08:58:30PM +0200, Florian Forster wrote: > To prepare for the release, we're going to "freeze" the 5.8 release on > November 1st, meaning that after Nov 1 we're only going to accept > bugfixes into 5.8 – new features will be merged into

Re: [collectd] Sending metadata over network

2017-10-21 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Dhananjay, On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 06:41:55PM -0400, Dhananjay Deshpande wrote: > Each value list has number of key:value pairs to uniquely identify the > value list. meta data is *not* used to identify metrics, only host, plugin (+instance) and type (+instance) are. If you create multiple

[collectd] Feature freeze for version 5.8 on Nov 1

2017-10-16 Thread Florian Forster
Hi everybody, as you may have heard, we're working hard to get version 5.8, the next feature release, out the door. The previous feature release, 5.7.0, is almost a year old and our wonderful contributors and fellow maintainers have been busy, meaning this release will feature a large number of

[collectd] Version 5.6.3 available.

2017-10-06 Thread Florian Forster
: 8a97161b354456ed91ec02dd5f47658197f7e18388f3af9d636aae506f795304 Thanks -- Thanks to everybody who contributed to this version. In particular, this release includes code contributions by: * Denys Fedoryshchenko * Ed Ravin * Florian Forster * Iain Buclaw * Krzysztof Matczak * Marc Fournier * Neil Wilson * Pavel Rochnyack

Re: [collectd] New to collectd - About licence of plugins

2017-04-05 Thread Florian Forster
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 11:31:54AM +0200, Florian Forster wrote: > [*] While writing this I discovered that the daemon links in > "src/daemon/utils_ignorelist.c", which is GPL'ed, but isn't using it > itself. I'll shortly change this so the plugins using the > &qu

Re: [collectd] New to collectd - About licence of plugins

2017-04-05 Thread Florian Forster
Hello Arthur, I am not a lawyer, just so you know. On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 10:18:23PM +0200, Arthur Havlicek wrote: > I intend to build a business around this amazing tool, mostly > selling a collectd integration + plugins. AFAIK plugins in collectd > are compiled with the daemon making it a

[collectd] Version 5.7.1 available.

2017-01-23 Thread Florian Forster
. #2083, #2098 * collectd: Reporting of internal statistics has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2108 * collectd, various plugins: Bugs and issues reported by scan-build and coverity-scan have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian Forster. * Build system: Parallel

[collectd] Version 5.7.0 available.

2016-12-12 Thread Florian Forster
who contributed to this version. In particular: * Akos Vandra * Benjamin Gilbert * Brock Johnson * Chao Yang * Dave Cunningham * Deyan Chepishev * Florian Forster * Fredrik Sandebert * Harry van Haaren * Igor Peshansky * Jaroslav Safka * John Conroy * Kim Jones

[collectd] Version 5.6.2 available.

2016-11-30 Thread Florian Forster
download links are: * http://collectd.org/files/collectd-5.5.2.tar.bz2 SHA-256: cc0b4118a91e5369409ced22d1d8a85c1a400098419414160c1839268ecad0c6 Thanks -- Thanks to everybody who contributed to this version. In particular: * Chao Yang * Florian Forster * Kevin Bowling * Marc

[collectd] Feature freeze, automatic code formatting

2016-11-28 Thread Florian Forster
Hello everybody, I have just created the "collectd-5.7" branch. With this the featureset for collectd 5.7 is frozen and we're on track for the release, which is scheduled for December 12. Sorry if your favorite feature didn't make it – we're a bit overwhelmed by the number of contributions we're

Re: [collectd] [RFC] virt2: a rewrite of the virt plugin

2016-11-10 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Francesco, Thank you for reaching out! I think a rewrite is probably better than adding a plugin doing the same as another, existing plugin – that will confuse users and increased our maintenance burden. However, this would require that the observable behavior stays the same: same config

[collectd] collectd 5.7 release schedule

2016-11-07 Thread Florian Forster
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[collectd] Version 5.6.1 available.

2016-10-07 Thread Florian Forster
. Thanks to Marc Fournier. Debian#839771, #1976 * collectd: A bug in the "FlushInterval" option that caused a segmentation fault in the Write HTTP plugin has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1954 * Apache plugin: A syntax error has been fixed. Thanks to Florian

Re: [collectd] collectd 5.6 release schedule

2016-09-15 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Pavel, On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 07:56:37PM +0700, Pavel V. wrote: > https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/894 - memcached: report global > Hostname by default #894 > https://github.com/collectd/collectd/issues/801 - memcached multi-instances > KO #801 >

[collectd] Version 5.6.0 available.

2016-09-11 Thread Florian Forster
Russo, Arthur Gautier, Aurelien ROUGEMONT, bbczeuz, Brad Davis, Brandon Arp, Brian Kelly, Brian Lalor, Brian ONeill, Charles-Henri d'Adhémar, Chris Mayo, Christian Fetzer, Claudius Zingerli, Corey Kosak, Dagobert Michelsen, David Crane, Fabien Wernli, fanyeren, Florian Forster, Florian Schüller

Re: [collectd] collectd 5.6 release schedule

2016-09-06 Thread Florian Forster
://ci.collectd.org/job/packages-prepare-tarball-collectd-5.6/ Alternatively, you can use the Debian, Ubuntu and RedHat packages based on that same tarball. Instructions are here: https://github.com/collectd/collectd-ci/blob/master/README.md Best regards, Florian Forster -- collectd – The system statistics

Re: [collectd] [PATCH] Fix conceptual buglet in default_callback

2016-08-11 Thread Florian Forster
Thanks David, committed to collectd-5.5 as a7b0cdea4f6a0f8d29ade21ae058182f720dd432. Best regards, —octo On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 08:07:14PM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > The 'DERIVE' path in default_callback() increments the 'counter' field of > value instead of the 'derive' field. Since those

[collectd] collectd 5.6 release schedule

2016-08-03 Thread Florian Forster
Hello, Marc, Ruben and I met yesterday and discussed the next feature release, version 5.6. We agreed on the following schedule: * August 15: 5.6 will enter a "feature freeze": we're going to create the "collectd-5.6" branch based on master. From that point onwards, only bug fixes will to

Re: [collectd] cpufreq extension

2016-07-27 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Rinigus, I'd advocate to add this to the "cpufreq plugin". Guard the new code with a config option, other plugins use "ReportFoo" for this purpose, so "ReportDistribution true|false" would be a good choice. Users who are not interested in these metrics can disable them. Which default, true or

[collectd] Version 5.5.2 available.

2016-07-26 Thread Florian Forster
Hello everybody, we're proud to announce the availability of collectd 5.5.2. As a bugfix release, this new version only closes existing problems and does not introduce new features. This release fixes an issue in the Network plugin that can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable

Re: [collectd] Combing Host Groups

2016-07-19 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Matt, On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 04:38:25PM +, matt.garr...@shell.com wrote: > Using the Plugin aggregation I can get the total CPU usage for one > host but cannot see a way to get the CPU usage for ALL the Hosts in > the Group bngsti* you can pass a regular expression to the "Host" option

Re: [collectd] SNMP Exponential Backoff

2015-06-16 Thread Florian Forster
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:45:56PM +0400, Sergey wrote: I propose to create a LimitDelay (or MaxDelay) setting for snmp plugin. And possibly per any host section. You can use the global MaxReadInterval option. There is currently no per-plugin option, though that should be relatively easy to

Re: [collectd] TCP support in network plugin

2015-06-11 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Konstantin, On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 03:08:04PM +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: Is it a design desition that network plugin supports UDP and multicast, but not TCP? yes, it allowed us to implement support for multicast, which is not possible with TCP. I think using TCP would be better

Re: [collectd] error when make source on centos

2015-06-10 Thread Florian Forster
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 02:10:30PM -0400, Giovanni Torres wrote: Do you have the 'kernel-headers' package installed?  It includes the asm/msr-index.h header file required by turbostat. Thanks for the pointer, Giovanni! At the very least the configure script should check for these headers then

Re: [collectd] error when make source on centos

2015-06-10 Thread Florian Forster
Hi fuyong, could you open a bug report for us at Github [0]? That would help us track this issue. Thanks and best regards, —octo [0] https://collectd.org/bugs/ -- collectd – The system statistics collection daemon Website: http://collectd.org Google+: http://collectd.org/+ GitHub:

Re: [collectd] [Microsoft] Issues with Developing a Java Writer Plugin for Microsoft's Product

2015-06-09 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Yoni, On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:21:51AM +, Yoni Shalom wrote: I encounter the same error over and over again, that the class provided in the LoadPlugin element (collectd.config) was not found on the agent startup. can you copy and paste the exact error you're getting? Here's what

[collectd] Version 5.5.0 available.

2015-06-06 Thread Florian Forster
, Christian Eichelmann, Christophe Courtaut, Dallin Young, David Blundell, Ed Okerson, Eric Sandeen, Fabiano Pires, Fabien Wernli, Fabrice A. Marie, Florian Forster, Frank Cornelis, Guillem Anguera, Ingmar Runge, Jan Andres, Jan Kundrát, Jan Vitek, Jean Delvare, Jeremy Katz, Jim Radford, Jiri

Re: [collectd] disk plugin on macosx

2015-06-06 Thread Florian Forster
Thanks Robert, I've submitted this as PR 1065 https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/1065. I split your changes into two commits to separate the whitespace changes from the actual fix. Thanks and best regards, —octo -- collectd – The system statistics collection daemon Website:

Re: [collectd] cpu plugin on macosx

2015-05-30 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Robert, thank you very much for your fix, I've committed it to the collectd-5.5 branch (commit e0683047a42e217c352c2419532b8e029f9f3f0a). On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 05:47:21PM -0400, Robert Viduya wrote: The code in cpu.c is incorrectly expecting the processor_info system call to return the

Re: [collectd] How often does Collectd read resolv.conf?

2015-05-30 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Shorty, On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 09:05:53PM +0200, Markus Shorty Uckelmann wrote: So back to it and Collectd wasn't able to resolve it's Graphite host. So even after a few hours it didn't re-read /etc/resolv.conf. the write_graphite plugin will call getaddrinfo(3) on every connection

Re: [collectd] Collectd and data encryption

2015-03-09 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Melkor, On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 03:53:32PM +0100, Melkor Lord wrote: This time however I think this is a legitimate question :-) Riemann supports SSL but there's nothing mentioned in the plugin doc - https://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd.conf.5.shtml#plugin_write_riemann -

Re: [collectd] collectd exec plugin

2014-08-20 Thread Florian Forster
regards, Florian Forster [0] https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Naming_schema [1] http://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/types.db.5.shtml [2] https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plain_text_protocol -- collectd – The system statistics collection daemon Website: http://collectd.org Google

Re: [collectd] Frage zu collectd cpufreq

2014-08-20 Thread Florian Forster
CC: +l...@collectd.org Hi Carsten, On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 06:55:27PM +0200, Carsten Spieß wrote: gibt's einen Grund warum das cpufreq Plugin /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq ausliest und nicht /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq? I'm not aware of a

[collectd] Version 5.4.1 available.

2014-01-26 Thread Florian Forster
Hello everybody, we're proud to announce the availability of collectd 5.4.1. As a bugfix release, this new version only closes existing problems and does not introduce new features. Download The new version is available in source-code form from collectd's download page. The direct

Re: [collectd] Averaging Samples when SigRok provides higher resolution

2013-09-25 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Kieran, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 03:22:33PM +0100, Kieran Bingham wrote: The Multimeter has an update rate of 5Hz, but we are storing the data as RRD, which appears to be limited as 1Hz by its data storage format. that's true, altough I don't know the exact reason for this from the top of my

Re: [collectd] long sleeps when using collectd and ntpd

2013-09-24 Thread Florian Forster
Hello Lode, On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:53:02AM +0200, danta wrote: Whenever ntpd sets the clock in the past (because of a clock drift), collectd sleeps until it is back at it's 'normal' time. When trying to debug the problem, we found that the do_loop function in collectd.c determines the

Re: [collectd] RRDs on SSD - performance degredation [resend without images]

2013-09-24 Thread Florian Forster
Hello, On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 05:51:57PM +0200, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: You *could* just bump up flush timers in rrdtool plugin like that: As an alternative, the WritesPerSecond might be interesting, because the number of writes performed no longer depends on the number of metrics on your

[collectd] RFC: Changes to data sources and naming schema

2013-09-23 Thread Florian Forster
[TLDR: Do you have a use-case for raw counter values?] Good morning everybody, we had a great time at the Hackathon [0] in Berlin yesterday. Thanks again to everyone! Amongst the ideas we discussed were some fundamental changes to the way metrics are represented. These ideas might eventually

Re: [collectd] RFC: Changes to data sources and naming schema

2013-09-23 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Jesse, On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:04:20AM +0930, Jesse Reynolds wrote: 2) - I'm slightly confused ... can you give an example of how you'd do a disk utilisation threshold check? either the current absolute value needs to be known, or one at some previous point in time and

[collectd] Hackathon in Berlin on September 21st

2013-09-12 Thread Florian Forster
Hello again, collectd community! the collectd Hackathon will take place in Berlin less than a week from now! We have a conference room booked at the Michelberger Hotel, right next to the subway station Warschauer Straße. All the latest information can be found in the collectd Wiki at:

[collectd] Hackathon in Berlin on September 21st (or 18th)

2013-08-20 Thread Florian Forster
TL,DR: Hackathon on September 21st in Berlin. Please reply if you would like to attend. Hello collectd community, I will be holding a workshop at Monitorama.eu in Berlin next month. Dan Belcher and John Palmieri of Stackdriver have suggested to use this opportunity to have a collectd Hackathon,

Re: [collectd] RRDs on SSD - performance degredation [resend without images]

2013-08-18 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Jesse, On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 06:49:25PM +0930, Jesse Reynolds wrote: Sounds too good to be true :-) collectd's rrdtool plugin and RRDCacheD use the same basic principle: Cache updates to RRD files in memory and write multiple updates at once. Due to the way RRD files are laid out, this

Re: [collectd] [PATCH 2/5] sigrok: bare bones plugin

2013-07-22 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Bert, thank you very much for your patches! On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 06:21:18PM +0200, Bert Vermeulen wrote: + * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + * the Free Software Foundation,

Re: [collectd] [PATCH 3/5] sigrok: Multiple device sections, and working acquisition

2013-07-22 Thread Florian Forster
Hi again, well, seing how the config function was rewritten, I think a squished together patch might actually make more sense. If you have a Github account, opening a Pull Request would also work, since I can comment on the overall changes, not just indivitual patches. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at

Re: [collectd] 5.3.0 format_graphite: target buffer too small

2013-05-29 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Tom, On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 01:55:30AM +0930, Tom Lanyon wrote: collectd[20671]: format_graphite: target buffer too small that buffer is 1428 bytes. With the types that are defined by default, you should be able to fit at least 2-3 values in that buffer. Did you define any custom types?

Re: [collectd] collectd.conf is overwritten every few hours

2013-05-29 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Bostjan, On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 05:45:18PM +0200, Bostjan Skufca wrote: Also, I recently croned collectd restarts as it was found out there are memory leaks. can you please report these memory leaks as a bug at http://collectd.org/bugs/? Thanks! —octo -- collectd – The system statistics

Re: [collectd] [PATCH] exec plugin: Document that defaulting to PUTVAL is no longer done

2013-05-26 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Dan, On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:58:40PM +0200, Dan Fandrich wrote: At least, that's what the documentation at the end of this file says, which I tend to believe. yes, it was one of the for backwards compatibility code paths which were removed between 4.10 and 5.0. Thanks for fixing this!

Re: [collectd] Linux Proces Monitoring With Collectd Graphite

2013-05-10 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Amit, On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 01:07:53PM +0530, amit shah wrote: Can collectd be configured to gather statistics for specific linux processes given their pid's? no, the processes plugin can only select processes by name. On some systems, including Linux, the ProcessMatch option matches the

Re: [collectd] Linux Proces Monitoring With Collectd Graphite

2013-05-10 Thread Florian Forster
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 02:02:08PM +0530, amit shah wrote: 1. So to collect statistics for different processes I would have to include multiple Plugin processes in the conf file? No, you can repeat the Process and ProcessMatch options in the block, e.g.: Plugin processes Process foo

[collectd] Version 5.3.0 is available.

2013-04-12 Thread Florian Forster
Hello everybody, as promised earlier this week, I have packaged and uploaded version 5.3.0. This feature release includes a couple of new features, most importantly the eagerly awaited write_riemann plugin, which allows you to send data to Riemann, an open-source stream aggregation and monitoring

Re: [collectd] collectd 5.3.0 / snmp.c - Unable to compile (ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code)

2013-04-12 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Andreas, On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:08:58PM +0200, Andreas Maus wrote: gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-51) yeah, it's unfortunate that this crept in and, as you pointed out, it has been fixed in the meantime. There are hardly any mixed declarations in the collectd codebase,

Re: [collectd] VMware Guest SDK plugin for Collectd 5

2013-04-09 Thread Florian Forster
Hi, I actually had those commits in a branch and forgot about them. I've rebased the code onto the master branch and created a pull request: http://collectd.org/bugs/293 I'll need to do another code review and fix some issues, but iIrc it was simple enough. Any help I get in the process with

[collectd] Versions 5.2.2, 5.1.3 and 4.10.9 are available.

2013-04-08 Thread Florian Forster
to everybody who helped with these new versions. In particular: * Dan Fandrich * Daniel Hilst * Dave Cottlehuber * Florian Forster * jkrabbe * Manuel Cissé * Marc Fournier * Markus Knetschke * Nathan Huff * Ruben Kerkhof * Sebastian Harl * Tomas Doran * Tommie Gannert ChangeLog

Re: [collectd] [PATCH] curl_xml plugin: Fixed typo in documentation

2013-03-23 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Dan, On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:19:48PM +0100, Dan Fandrich wrote: -=item BNamespaces IPrefix IURL +=item BNamespace IPrefix IURL it's submitted, thanks :) —octo -- collectd – The system statistics collection daemon Website: http://collectd.org Google+: http://collectd.org/+ GitHub:

Re: [collectd] [PATCH] curl_xml plugin: Added support for XML namespaces

2013-03-16 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Dan, thank you very much for various cURL patches :) On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 09:47:10PM +0100, Dan Fandrich wrote: +e.g. CNamespaces s=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/; I prefer to have the structure in the config file, instead of parsing a user-provided string. I've implemented

Re: [collectd] What about the scalability for collectd network plugin?

2013-03-05 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Benjamin, On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 07:01:29AM +, Benjamin Wang (gendwang) wrote: Is there any potential bottleneck for this scenario? Do you have any experienced data about the collectd performance? your bottleneck is going to be the I/O performance when writing RRD files to disk. With

Re: [collectd] Proposal to implement the control protocol for collectd!

2013-03-05 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Benjamin, On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 03:36:28AM +, Benjamin Wang (gendwang) wrote: I am not sure whether this is a right place to discuss the development proposal. If I am wrong, please help me to forward this mail to the right place. thanks for your work in this direction; you've come to

Re: [collectd] rrdcached+collectd

2013-03-05 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Yves, On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:45:33AM +0100, Yves Mettier wrote: @octo : Has this been taken into account in the new and already closed #262 ? yes, but only for files created asynchronously. In the current (synchronous) case, the idea is that the file is there, so we might as well update

Re: [collectd] apparent copy-paste error in comment

2013-02-21 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Robert, thanks for the hint. It's fixed in http://octo.cx/c639797. Best regards, —octo -- collectd – The system statistics collection daemon Website: http://collectd.org Google+: http://collectd.org/+ GitHub: https://github.com/collectd Twitter: http://twitter.com/collectd signature.asc

[collectd] Chef recpie for collectd (was: http://collectd.org/temp/ContactMe.chef)

2013-02-08 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Miah, thanks for getting in touch. On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 02:08:21PM -0800, Miah Johnson wrote: I'm the author of a chef cookbook that manages collectd. I'm not sure if my cookbook is the source of your woes but I figured I'd drop you an email. It looks like you're the author of

Re: [collectd] Chef recpie for collectd (was: http://collectd.org/temp/ContactMe.chef)

2013-02-08 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Noah, On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 01:44:19AM -0800, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: I actually double-checked mine after seeing the notice posted since I know a lot of people use it and I am only doing package installs so it should't be hitting anything on your servers (unless you happen to host an

Re: [collectd] Chef recpie for collectd

2013-02-08 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Miah, On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 05:31:14PM -0800, Miah Johnson wrote: I think this is a problem in the 'ark' cookbook, which is what handles the actually download/compile/install portion of the install. oh, alright. I was half expeting it to have some only if changed flag or so. So I

Re: [collectd] [PATCH] Add protection from infinite redirect loops to curl-using plugins

2013-02-05 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Dan, thanks for the patch! I've applied it to collectd-4.10 as http://octo.cx/a7aec0a. Thanks and best regards, —octo -- collectd – The system statistics collection daemon Website: http://collectd.org Google+: http://collectd.org/+ GitHub: https://github.com/collectd Twitter:

Re: [collectd] Collectd writing to Zabbix

2013-02-05 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Brett, On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 07:00:46AM -0700, Brett Hawn wrote: Before I sit down and write something, I'm wondering if anyone has built a module to have collectd send information to a Zabbix installation. I'm not aware of any such plugin, nor of anybody working on one. Assuming

Re: [collectd] [PATCH] curl's numeric options are always at minimum long, never int

2013-02-03 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Dan, On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 01:19:48AM +0100, Dan Fandrich wrote: This can affect portability to some architectures. thanks for fixing this :) FTR, this is a problem because curl_easy_setopt() is a variadic function, so the compiler can't do the automatic expansion from int to long. I've

Re: [collectd] [PATCH] Allow out-of-tree builds

2013-02-03 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Dan, On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 01:26:43AM +0100, Dan Fandrich wrote: The generated header file lcc_features.h and collectd.h cause problems otherwise. thanks a lot for your patch! +AM_CPPFLAGS += -I$(top_builddir)/src/libcollectdclient/collectd Since binaries using the library need to get

Re: [collectd] compile error on Debian Lenny with gcc version 4.3.2

2013-01-29 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Mario, On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 08:48:57PM +0100, ml ml wrote: network_buffer.c:109: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘gcry_cipher_hd_t’ I believe this is a duplicate of https://collectd.org/bugs/201 and has been fixed in http://octo.cx/eda7887. This should be fixed in

[collectd] Versions 5.1.2 and 5.2.1 available.

2013-01-29 Thread Florian Forster
Hello everybody, I've packaged a new round of patch releases for the 5.2 and 5.1 branches. Version 5.2.1 fixes two bugs which were introduces in 5.2.0: A build issue on systems without the gcrypt library was fixed. This caused many people some headache when trying to compile collectd from

Re: [collectd] [PATCH 0/2] Ceph collectd plugin

2013-01-21 Thread Florian Forster
Hi Sage :) thank you very much for your code! On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 05:17:17PM -0800, Sage Weil wrote: There is an additional patch here to properly detect the libjson dependency that comes from Yves Mettier. Feel free to adjust the changelog if you want to sign it off differently or

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