Hello, I'm pleased to announce version 4.9.0 of collectd, the system statistics collection daemon.
The new version includes six new plugins, from gathering statistics from NetApp storage systems to integration of a Python interpreter, allowing custom plugins to be developed in the Python scripting language. Existing plugins have been improved, for example the CPU plugin which now works with AIX and can handle SMP under FreeBSD and the Processes plugin which can now also gather IO-metrics for specific processes in addition to CPU time and memory used. The new Scale target can be used to multiply values by an arbitrary value and the new Hashed match provides means for setting up a simple load balancing. Download -------- The new version is available in source-code form from collectd's download page. The direct download links are: Version 4.9.0: * http://collectd.org/files/collectd-4.9.0.tar.bz2 SHA-1: 7a3e0b28248eb061c30221e19fee19c6ba303fb9 * http://collectd.org/files/collectd-4.9.0.tar.gz SHA-1: 9b47449aff038297e986971b5ffa613a7f126635 Thanks ------ Thanks to everybody who helped with this new version. In particular, the release contains new code by: * Aman Gupta * Andrés J. Díaz * Doug MacEachern * Jeff Green * Jonathan Kolb * Manuel Sanmartin * Marco Chiappero * Patrik Weiskircher * Sebastian Harl * Stefan Völkel * Sven Trenkel ChangeLog --------- The following is an excerpt from ChangeLog file, documenting new features in version 4.9.0. 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch. * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch. * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks to Aman Gupta for the patch. * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch. * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application. * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch. * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers. Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch. * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has been implemented. * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch. * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch. * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device" have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the patch. * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work. * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and wireless registration statistics from RouterOS. * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk, interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches. * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant storage has been added. * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary value has been added. About ----- collectd is a daemon which collects, processes and stores system and application performance statistics. It is highly modular with a small and portable core and a great number of plugins, many of which may have system and library dependencies. collectd is free software: The core and most plugins are licensed under the GNU General Public License, remaining plugins are license under other GPL-compatible open-source licenses. The key features of collectd include low overhead and high-resolution statistics (default interval: 10 seconds) and portability to various UNIX platforms, including Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and AIX. It includes advanced network features such as IPv6, multicasting and proxying and can be extended in numerous ways using the programming languages C, Perl, Python and Java or by executing external scripts. The daemon is used in several projects as the statistics gathering backend, including LuCI, the web interface of OpenWrt, oVirt, a virtualization console by RedHat Emerging Technologies, and WebYaST, a web-based configuration management interface by the openSUSE team. More information on collectd and the included plugins is available from collectd's homepage at <http://collectd.org/>. Best regards and nice holidays, —octo -- Florian octo Forster Hacker in training GnuPG: 0x91523C3D http://verplant.org/
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