collectd itself is intended as lightweight collecting agent for metrics and events. In larger infrastructure, the data is sent over the network to a central point, where data is stored and processed further.
This introduces a potential issue: what happens, if the remote endpoint to write data to is not …
This is mostly a brain dump for myself for later reference, but may be also useful for others.
As I wrote in an earlier post, collectd is configured on OpenStack TripleO driven deployments by a config file.
parameter_defaults: CollectdExtraPlugins: - write_http ExtraConfig: collectd::plugin::write_http::nodes: collectd: url …
Last week, on January 31 and Feb 01, we had a contributors meetup of collectd in Brussels, just before FOSDEM. Thanks to our generous sponsors Camptocamp, Intel, and Red Hat, we were able to meet and to talk about various topics. In total, there were 15 persons attending, and if …