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
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