collectd Changelog

What's new in collectd 5.5.0

Jul 28, 2015
  • Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
  • Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806, #807, #908
  • Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
  • Build system: Plugins now only export module_register(). Thanks to Florian Forster.
  • Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
  • collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
  • collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments and documentation and several error messages have been improved. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
  • collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains. Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
  • collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
  • collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
  • collectd: The CollectInternalStats option has been added. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #691
  • collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the src/daemon/ directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
  • collectd: The new MaxReadInterval option allows to cap the exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
  • collectd: The -P command-line option now has precedence over the PIDFile option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
  • collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
  • libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
  • Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
  • Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier.
  • Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
  • Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX, gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping, PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog, Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig, most of the utils_* files and the plugin API.
  • Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
  • Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable. Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
  • Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
  • AMQP plugin: The ConnectionRetryDelay option has been added, allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc Fournier. #833
  • AMQP plugin: The QueueDurable and QueueAutoDelete options have been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
  • Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP plugins: Customizing the User-Agent field is now possible at compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
  • Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured Interval. The new Timeout option gives control over this behavior. Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
  • Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins: Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
  • Apache plugin: The SSLCiphers option gives control over the encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni Moreno. #946
  • Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69, #693
  • Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
  • Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
  • Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
  • BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
  • Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
  • ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well as legacy conntrack files in /proc has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
  • CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
  • cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
  • cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis. Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
  • cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
  • cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
  • DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A MetadataFrom parameter has been added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to Mark Wong. #317, #321
  • DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
  • Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up in udev with the UdevNameAttr option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
  • Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael Schenck. #705, #759
  • DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
  • Exec, UnixSock plugins: The PUTNOTIF command now allows to set metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
  • fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
  • GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for JMXConnectorFactory has been added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre Moutot. #452
  • IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
  • Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
  • Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
  • Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #360
  • LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
  • memcached plugin: listen_disabled_num are now also reported. Thanks to Matt Cottingham. #622
  • Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
  • Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages. Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511, #559
  • Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
  • Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
  • Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
  • MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing 127.0.0.1 as a host will now result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #441
  • MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #248, #621, #699, #824
  • MySQL plugin: The Alias and ConnectTimeout options have been added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
  • Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
  • Network plugin: The ReconnectInterval configuration option has been added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
  • NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek Becka. #550
  • OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
  • OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
  • OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from OpenLDAP's cn=Monitor subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
  • OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Ed Okerson. #252
  • OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris Lundquist. #264
  • Perl plugin: A new listval_filter method has been added, various internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
  • PostgreSQL plugin: The new ExpireDelay option allows skipping older values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen O'Dor. #593
  • PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
  • Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
  • Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, ModulePath is now prepended to sys.path, and the get_dataset() function has been added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne. #890, #751, #771
  • Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296, #464, #475, #799, #1030
  • Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
  • Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
  • Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added. Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
  • SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
  • SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
  • SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
  • SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to Sergey. #939, #952
  • Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages. Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
  • Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where SwapCached isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster. #733
  • Tail plugin: GaugeInc and GaugeAdd options have been implemented. Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
  • Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis. Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
  • TCPConns plugin: The AllPortsSummary option, allowing to summarize all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
  • TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
  • Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
  • UnixSock plugin: The GETTHRESHOLD command has been re-added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
  • Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #618, #783
  • virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
  • virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
  • virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to Florian Forster.
  • Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails, reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to Florian Forster. #625
  • Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been improved. The block has been deprecated in favor of . Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
  • Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
  • Write HTTP plugin: The LowSpeedLimit and Timeout options allow to reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc Fournier. #752, #985
  • Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server can now be controlled with the BufferSize option. Thanks to Florian Forster. #722
  • Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard, ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
  • Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
  • Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
  • Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
  • Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
  • Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
  • Write Riemann plugin: The EventServicePrefix option has been added, which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
  • Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
  • Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
  • Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
  • ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
  • Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper MNTR command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826

New in collectd 5.4.1 (Jan 16, 2015)

  • AMQP plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
  • Apache / Network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
  • Aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed. Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
  • cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux. Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
  • cURL plugin: Fix blocks without an instance. Thanks to Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
  • cURL-JSON plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
  • Interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric. Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
  • Write Graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
  • ZFS ARC plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.

New in collectd 5.4.0 (Dec 16, 2013)

  • collectd: The LoadPlugin config option no longer attempts to load plugins twice. If more than one LoadPlugin statement or block is encountered, only the first will have any effect.
  • collectd: The AutoLoadPlugin option allows to automatically load plugins for which a configuration is found.
  • collectd: The WriteQueueLimitHigh and WriteQueueLimitLow options allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
  • AMQP plugin: The GraphiteSeparateInstances and GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS options have been added. Thanks to Laurent for the patch.
  • Aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
  • cURL plugin: The MeasureResponseCode option has been added. Thanks to Jan Matějka for his patch.
  • cURL-JSON plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
  • cURL-XML plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
  • cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
  • DF plugin: The ValuesAbsolute and ValuesPercentage options have been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
  • Exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the patch.
  • LVM plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux' Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
  • memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
  • MIC plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC) architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his work.
  • Netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported libmnl library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
  • nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
  • sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
  • StatsD plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads metrics in the StatsD format.
  • Varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to Nick Stenning for his patch.
  • Write Graphite plugin: Support for UDP has been added. Thanks to Javier Maestro for his patch.
  • Write Riemann plugin: The TTLFactor option has been added.

New in collectd 4.10.3 (Mar 28, 2011)

  • Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
  • collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont.
  • collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the percentage calculation has been fixed.
  • collectd, Java plugin, NTPd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have been improved.
  • cURL-JSON plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
  • libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
  • Modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored. (Version 4.10.3 only)
  • Processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an error handling case.
  • Python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this problem.

New in collectd 4.10.2 (Nov 29, 2010)

  • Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
  • collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with the rest of the configuration if possible.
  • collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
  • collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
  • collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the configurable timeout value. (Version 4.10.2 only)
  • cURL, memcachec, Tail plugins: Fix handling of DERIVE data sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
  • cURL-JSON plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
  • NetApp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function. Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
  • Network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order to prevent spamming the logs.
  • Notify Email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
  • Python plugin: Set sys.argv, since many scripts don't expect that it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
  • RRDtool, RRDCacheD plugins: Fix a too strict assertion when creating RRD files.
  • Swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been fixed. (Version 4.10.2 only)
  • Value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.

New in collectd 4.10.1 (Jul 10, 2010)

  • Build system: Checking for strtok_r(3) under Solaris has been fixed.
  • Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
  • collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has been improved.
  • libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
  • DF plugin: An error message shown when cu_mount_getlist fails has been added.
  • Processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
  • Python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
  • SNMP plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
  • PowerDNS plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.

New in collectd 4.8.1 (Oct 5, 2009)

  • New patch releases of collectd have been created. The changes include a rare but nasty race condition in the UnixSock plugin, which could lead to data being lost or being written to a wrong file descriptor. Anybody using the UnixSock plugin is advised to upgrade.
  • Build system: Issues when building the IP-Tables 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.

New in collectd 4.6.2 (Mar 19, 2009)

  • Collection of the number of cached RR-sets has been fixed in the "BIND" plugin.
  • Filter chains can now be configured without a default target.
  • Portability fixes have been added to the "DNS" and "Oracle" plugins.
  • Issues with a Solaris utility function have been resolved.
  • A typo that prevented the module from being used correctly has been corrected in the "TimeDiff" match.
  • A possible race condition during startup has been fixed in the "RRDtool" plugin.

New in collectd 4.6.1 (Feb 23, 2009)

  • An off-by-one error in the IPMI plugin has been fixed.
  • Smaller problems in the BIND plugin, documentation, and build system have been fixed.

New in collectd 4.6.0 (Feb 17, 2009)

  • An infrastructure for filtering and manipulating values has been added to the daemon.
  • A communication and control library has been added.
  • Plug-ins for BIND, cURL, DBI, OpenVPN, Oracle, and RRDCacheD have been added.
  • New features have been added to the CSV, Interface, memcached, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Processes plug-ins.
  • The CPU and Swap plug-ins have been ported to OpenBSD.
  • Error handling and/or portability has been improved in the IPMI and Perl plug-ins.