Cyril, Thank you very much for the response. It looks like the exec or unixsock plugin with a custom interval of 86,400 seconds (for a task that only runs once a day) may work for nightly cron tasks.
- josh On Jan 11, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Cyril Feraudet wrote: >> Is anyone using collectd to track performance of batch scripts or cron jobs? >> I have some nightly tasks that take X amount of time and process N number of >> records. I would like to be able to gather the results for analysis over >> time so I could see when time/records are increasing. Is anyone using >> collectd for this or do you rely on something else for this kind of >> statistics gathering? If you are using collectd, how does it line up with >> other traditional statistics like CPU, memory, etc. that change more rapidly? >> >> - josh >> > > > Hi Josh, > > We use collectd at work (French Bank) to collectd traditional performances of > actually 4275 servers. > We use also Collectd to retrieve several information about batch, power > consuption, etc by using custom "types" and "notifications". > The easier way is to use unixsock plugin to send custom statistics and/or > notification. > About collect interval you can pick them each second if necessary ... > > Cyril _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list collectd@verplant.org http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd