Plugin:Write HTTP
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| Write HTTP plugin | |
|---|---|
| Type: | write |
| Callbacks: | config, flush, write |
| Status: | supported |
| First version: | 4.8 |
| Copyright: | 2009 Paul Sadauskas 2009 Doug MacEachern 2007–2009 Florian octo Forster |
| License: | GPLv2 |
| Manpage: | collectd.conf(5) |
| List of Plugins | |
The Write HTTP plugin sends the values collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests. The data is formatted as PUTVAL commands, see plain text protocol.
In order to improve performance the plugin fills a 4 kByte buffer as full as possible end sends multiple lines at once.
Contents |
[edit] Synopsis
<Plugin "write_http">
<URL "http://example.com/post-collectd">
User "collectd"
Password "weCh3ik0"
</URL>
</Plugin>
[edit] Example data
The data transmitted to the web-server has the following form:
PUTVAL leeloo.lan.home.verplant.org/disk-sda/disk_octets interval=10 1251533299:197141504:175136768 PUTVAL leeloo.lan.home.verplant.org/disk-sda/disk_ops interval=10 1251533299:10765:12858 PUTVAL leeloo.lan.home.verplant.org/disk-sda/disk_time interval=10 1251533299:5:140 PUTVAL leeloo.lan.home.verplant.org/disk-sda/disk_merged interval=10 1251533299:4658:29899 ⋮
