2011/8/8 Ulrich Habel <rh...@cpan.org>: >> It's still one *type* of value per file ;) >> http://collectd.org/faq.shtml section "Why is the CPU usage split up >> in so many files? " :) > > Thanks, I've already noticed :-). I didn't know that the df stats > changed recently :-). > > It's perfectly reasonable to change the way collectd works and stores > its data. However, from what I understand for now is that > collectd-nagios is just not working anymore for some plugins e.g. the > df plugin. This leads to the next consequence - use collectd only for > data collection (which it was meant for) - for monitoring purposes use > nagios (which it was meant for). Don't try to combine them with > collectd-nagios, write a different tool which queries the data and do > the math. > > A different solution might me: use nagios to monitor and collect data > about e.g. df stats for long time monitoring (e.g. when is my disk > full) and don't use the df plugin in collectd (and maybe others) at > all. > > I am still a big fan of the collectd data collector system with > proxy/multicast, it's awesome. It would just be nice to use a tool to > query all the data in one place and to use ranges for monitoring. > Well tbh what would be needed is just better version of collectd-nagios that can do simple math like "if ( (df-free/df-total) < 0.2 ){alert();}" It wouldn't be very hard to write just i guess noone needed it that badly ;]. I've wrote something similiar (only much simpler, i needed only average/min/max of few values) and interfacing with collectd is pretty easy.
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