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Version 4.8 has been released on Sunday, September 13th. The newest release of this version is 4.8.3 which was released on January 14th. Support for this version has ended.

New features

The following features first appeared in version 4.8. This list is imported from the Roadmap page.

cURL-JSON plugin

The cURL-JSON plugin queries JSON data using cURL and parses it using YAJL, similar to the cURL and memcachec plugins. This can be used to query CouchDB instances. The plugin has been written by Doug MacEachern.

olsrd plugin

The olsrd plugin queries information about meshed networks from the Optimized Link State Routing daemon (olsrd).

Introduce a DERIVE data source type

In order to handle counter resets more gracefully, DERIVE and ABSOLUTE data sources have been added in addition to the already existing data source types. The initial patch was written by Mariusz Gronczewski.

TokyoTyrant plugin

Plugin to use TokyoTyrant to collect information about a Tokyo Cabinet database. The plugin was written by Paul Sadauskas.

Empty Counter match

This simple match can be used to match counters with a counter reading of zero. The intention is to be able to discard inactive counters.

Meta data

Meta data has been added to the value-list-t structure in src/plugin.h and the cache-entry-t structure in src/utils_cache.c. This allows to attach meta data to a specific value list as it is passed around the daemon as well as attaching data to the identifier using the global-cache.

MadWifi plugin

Ondrej Zajicek writes:

  • “I am developing a Collectd plugin for Madwifi (a driver for Atheros wifi cards). Madwifi driver allows to run wireless cards in AP mode and have several private ioctls to acquire statistics about stations assciated to that AP, so standard wireless plugin is completely inadequate in that case.”

The plugin has been commited to the master branch on August 11th.

GenericJMX plugin

A Java-based plugin to read values from the Java Management Extensions (JMX). JMX is a generic framework to provide and query various management information. The interface is used by Java processes to provide internal statistics as well as by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to provide information about the memory used, threads and so on. The configuration is demonstrated in the contrib/GenericJMX.conf file. Written by octo, tested (also) by Matthew Sporleder.

RRDtool plugin: Random timeouts

Adding random delays when writing values to RRD files helps to avoid sudden load peaks which appear when all data times out at the same time. Written and tested by Mariusz Gronczewski.

Write HTTP plugin

Plugin to send data via HTTP POST requests to a web-server / CGI-script. Written by Paul Sadauskas.

ZFS ARC plugin

This new plugin queries ZFS' Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC). The patch was provided by Anthony Dewhurst (Dagger in IRC) on August 1st. It was merged to master on August 30th.

Changes

Release 4.8.0

Released on Sunday, September 13, 2009.

  • collectd: Two new data-source types, DERIVE and ABSOLUTE, have been added. DERIVE can be used for counters that are reset occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
  • thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for hit patches.
  • cURL-JSON plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using the cURL library and parses the contents according to user specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
  • DF plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
  • DNS plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
  • GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to query arbitrary data from a Java process using the Java Management Extensions (JMX).
  • MadWifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
  • Network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to Aman Gupta for the patch.
  • olsrd plugin: The new OLSR plugin queries routing information from the Optimized Link State Routing daemon.
  • RRDtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the patch.
  • Swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
  • TokyoTyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
  • UnixSock plugin: Add the GETTHRESHOLD command. This command can be used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
  • Write HTTP plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests. Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
  • ZFS ARC plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about the Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC) of the Zeta File-System (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
  • Empty Counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the counter value of all counter data sources is zero.

Release 4.8.1

Released on Sunday, October 04, 2009.

  • Build system: Issues when building the IPTables plugin have been fixed.
  • Exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
  • Perl plugin: Declare the environ variable. This solves build issues on some platforms.
  • Processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
  • UnixSock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file descriptor handling.

Release 4.8.2

Released on Friday, December 18, 2009.

  • Build system, Java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java headers, because it's a GNU extension.
  • Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
  • collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been loaded.
  • GenericJMX plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
  • gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
  • Memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory under Mac OS X has been fixed.
  • Network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
  • Oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
  • RRDCacheD plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been added.
  • SNMP plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
  • UnixSock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.

Release 4.8.3

Released on Thursday, January 14, 2010.

  • Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
  • RRDtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly again.
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