Plugin Lua

Name:	Lua plugin
Type:	binding
Callbacks:	config, read, write, shutdown
Status:	supported
FirstVersion:	5.6
Copyright:	2010 Julien Ammous, 2010 Florian Forster 2016 Ruben Kerkhof
License:	MIT License
Manpage:	collectd-lua(5)
See also:	List of Plugins

The Lua plugin implements a Lua interpreter into collectd. This makes it possible to write plugins in Lua which are executed by collectd without the need to start a heavy interpreter every interval. See collectd-lua(5) for details.

This plugin is a generic plugin, i.e. it cannot work without configuration, because there is no reasonable default behavior. Please read the Plugin lua section of the collectd.conf(5) manual page for an in-depth description of the plugin's configuration.

Synopsis

 LoadPlugin lua
 # ...
 <Plugin lua>
   BasePath "/path/to/your/lua/scripts"
   Script "script1.lua"
   Script "script2.lua"
 </Plugin>

Dependencies

Caveats

History

• 5.6: The plugin was added to allow writing plugins using the Lua programming language.
• 5.9: A memory leak was fixed.

See also

• Python plugin
• Perl plugin
• Java plugin
• Exec plugin