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Collectd v5.8.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-11-18 // over 6 years ago

  • collectd: The core daemon is now completely licensed under the MIT license.
    collectd: Added daemon option to avoid making BaseDir. Thanks to Nathaniel Wesley Filardo and @octo. #2422
    collectd: Global variables have been moved to their own module to make porting collectd easier. Thanks to Sean Campbell. #2467
    collectd as well as Apache, memcached, OpenLDAP, Perl, RouterOS, SNMP, Tail-CSV plugins: Free userdata for plugin_register_complex_read(). Thanks to @rpv-tomsk. #2349
    Collectd client library: Added parsing and server code. Thanks to @octo. #2258
    πŸ‘· Build system: Dependency on libltdl has been removed, support for libtool 1 has been dropped. Thanks to @rubenk. #1898
    πŸ‘· Build system: The build system has been switched to non-recursive make. Thanks to @rubenk. #2085
    πŸ”§ APC UPS plugin: The plugin's configuration is now optional. Without a <Plugin /> block reasonable defaults will be used. Thanks to @rpv-tomsk. #2351
    Chrony plugin: Several issues found when working with a stratum-1 server have been fixed. Thanks to Miroslav Lichvar. #2190
    Ceph plugin: Support for the Ceph version "Luminous" has been added. Thanks to Aleksei Zakharov. #2464
    CPU plugin : Linux-specific "guest" states have been added. Thanks to Xavier G. #2439
    πŸ”§ cURL plugin, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, DBI, FileCount, memcachec, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Table, Tail, Tail CSV plugins: The ability to configure the plugin field of generated metrics has been added. Thanks to @rpv-tomsk. #1944, #1681, #1558
    πŸ”Œ cURL-JSON plugin: Parsing of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to @octo. #2281
    DPDKEvents plugin: This new plugin reports link status and keep alive events. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Serhiy Pshyk, Kim-Marie Jones, Krzysztof Matczak, Przemyslaw Szczerbik, Christian Ehrhardt and Luca Boccassi. #2157, #2348, #2400, #2405, #2417
    DPDKStat plugin: The plugin has been refactored to make DPDK related utility functions reusable. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak, Przemyslaw Szczerbik, Christian Ehrhardt and Luca Boccassi. #2130, #2348, #2400, #2405, #2417
    DPDKStat plugin: The LogLevel and RteDriverLibPath config options have been added. Thanks to Jiri Prokes. #2505
    Email plugin as well as Exec and Unixsock plugins: Use _SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX. Thanks to @octo. #2451
    πŸ”Œ FileCount plugin: Custom values for reported plugin, type and type instance. Thanks to @rpv-tomsk. #1979
    GenericJMX plugin: Support for AtomicInteger and AtomicLong has been added. Thanks to Pierre Mauduit. #2158
    gRPC plugin: Support for meta data has been added. Thanks to Taylor Cramer. #2378
    πŸ”Œ IPC plugin: Fixed failed compilation on AIX. Thanks to @rpv-tomsk. #2357
    🐎 Intel PMU plugin: This new plugin collects CPU performance metrics using Intel's Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU). Scaling information added to metadata. Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk and Roman Korynkevych. #2276, #2398, #2374
    🌲 Intel RDT plugin: Support for collectd's logging infrastructure has been added. PQoS monitoring groups are being reset on start-up to fix potential previous unclean shutdowns. Thanks to Roman Korynkevych. #2089.
    🌲 IPMI plugin: Support for System Event Log (SEL) has been added. Thanks to Roman Korynkevych. #2091
    πŸ”Œ IPMI plugin: Support for remote IPMI controllers has been added. Thanks to @rpv-tomsk. #2024
    LVM plugin: A check for the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability has been added. This will give users an informative warning when the process is not running with the required privileges for this plugin. Thanks to @octo. #2426, #2499
    mcelog plugin: This new plugin subscribes to Machine Check Exceptions (MCE) and dispatches notifications. Metadata reset. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Volodymyr Mytnyk, Taras Chornyi, Krzysztof Matczak and Roman Korynkevych. #2003, #2246, #2380
    πŸ”Œ MQTT plugin: Add support for TLS in Subscriber blocks. Thanks to @octo. #2434
    πŸ”Œ memcached plugin: Persistent connections have been implemented. Fix hit ratio reporting, add connections rate report. Thanks to @rpv-tomsk. #2388, #2385
    memcached plugin: The type of the listen_disabled metric has been changed to total_events. Thanks to @octo. #2386, #2468
    Netlink plugin: The dropped packets metric has been added. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2053
    NFS plugin: Support for NFS 4.2 metrics has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #2369
    NFS plugin: Config options to ignore specified NFS versions have been added. Thanks to Christian BartolomΓ€us. #2430
    NUT plugin: The ConnectTimeout, ForceSSL, VerifyPeer and CAPath options have been added. Thanks to @rpv-tomsk and Steven Bell. #2145, #2354
    πŸ”Œ OpenLDAP plugin: A segfault after a connection failure has been fixed. Thanks to @rpv-tomsk. #2377
    βœ… Openvpn plugin: Added support for status files from latest OpenVPN-2.4 and possible from future versions. Thanks to @rpv-tomsk. #2352
    πŸ”Œ OVS Events plugin: This new plugin reports link state changes from Open vSwitch (OVS). Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk. #1971
    πŸ”Œ OVS Stats plugin: This new plugin reports bridge / interface statistics from Open vSwitch (OVS). Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk and Taras Chornyi. #2137
    πŸ›  Perl plugin: Bugfix, added check of proper interpreter initialization. Thanks to @rpv-tomsk. #2391
    PostgreSQL plugin: The plugin now sets the application_name parameter when connecting to the database. Thanks to daniacs. #2497
    Processes plugin: The I/O operations reported for selected processes has been fixed. The metric ps_disk_octets has been renamed to io_octets because it actually contains the number of I/O operation by the process, not just disk related I/O. Same for io_ops (previously ps_disk_ops). The new metric disk_octets has been added and is reporting disk I/O only. Add option to collect the count of active memory maps for Linux processes. The CollectFileDescriptor and CollectContextSwitch options have been added. Thanks to @rpv-tomsk and to Wilfried Goesgens. #2232, #2454, #1989
    Processes and TCPConns plugins: The OpenBSD implementation has been changed to use kvm_openfiles with KVM_NO_FILES. Thanks to Jeremie Courreges-Anglas. #2061
    Python plugin: Extend Notification class to include metadata. Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk. #2135
    Python plugin: The CollectdException class has been added. This allows to throw an exception without a stack trace being logged. Thanks to Sven Trenkel. #2330, #2346
    Sensors plugin: Support for (electrical) current has been added. Thanks to Clemens Gruber. #2255
    πŸ”Œ SNMP plugin: Error handling has been improved: a potential double-free is now avoided (potentially leaking memory) and handling of non-failing subtrees has been fixed. Thanks to @rpv-tomsk. #2449
    SNMP plugin: The Timeout and Retries config options have been added. Thanks to Carlos Vicente. #1472, #2488
    πŸ”§ SNMP Agent plugin: This new plugin implements an SNMP AgentX subagent that receives and handles queries from SNMP master agent and returns configured metrics. Thanks to Roman Korynkevych, Serhiy Pshyk and @rpv-tomsk. #2105, #2362
    Synproxy plugin: This new plugin provides statistics for Linux SYNPROXY. Thanks to Marek Bečka. #2381
    πŸ”Œ Tail plugin: Allow the calculation of several distributions in one "tail" instance through a "bucket" type. Thanks to @rpv-tomsk. #2442
    Turbostat plugin: Import msr-index.h header from Linux and better support for mutliple packages. Thanks to Vincent Brillault. #2445, #2446
    Uptime plugin: Changed implementation to read from /proc/uptime instead of /proc/stat. Update for Linux and AIX, uptime is read directly using a system call. Update for BSD and Solaris, uptime is calculated by subtracting boot time from current time. Thanks to Ivan Kurnosov and Marcin Jurkowski. #2431, #2034
    UUID plugin: Support for libhal has been removed. Thanks to @rubenk. #2080
    Varnish plugin: Extended the varnish plugin with varnish-plus counters. Fixed invalid data source type. Thanks to Denes Matetelki. #2453, #2463
    virt plugin: The plugin has been updated to use virConnectListAllDomains(). Thanks to Denis Silakov. #2051
    virt plugin: Support for domain tags has been added. Thanks to Francesco Romani. #2048
    virt plugin: Connection handling has been improved. Thanks to Francesco Romani. #2100, #2101
    virt plugin: Many metrics have been added, including disk, hypervisor CPU usage, performance monitoring events, domain state, CPU pinning (affinity), file system, and job statistics. Thanks to Francesco Romani and Przemyslaw Szczerbik. #2103, #2175, #2168
    βœ… Write Graphite plugin: Additional tests have been added. Thanks to @octo.
    Write HTTP plugin: The Attribute and TTL options for the KairosDB format have been added. Implementation of "Prefix" option. Thanks to jaroug, Denis Pompilio and '' @rpv-tomsk. #2199, #2252, #2482
    πŸ›  Write MongoDB plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Saikrishna Arcot. #2307
    πŸ”Œ Write Prometheus plugin: Label values are now properly escaped. Thanks to @octo. #2035
    Write Redis plugin: Add max_set_duration to set duration for value. Thanks to Tomofumi Hayashi. #2440
    Write Riemann plugin: Export times with microsecond resolution. Thanks to mcorbin. #2315
    Write TSDB plugin: The options ResolveInterval and ResolveJitter have been added to control DNS lookup behavior. This prevents DNS flooding in case TSDB is not available. Thanks to Yves Mettier and @octo. #2059
    🐧 ZFS ARC plugin: Header lines are now ignored in the Linux implementation. Thanks to YmrDtnJu. #2097