Plugin:FileCount

FileCount plugin
Type:	read
Callbacks:	config, init, read
Status:	supported
First version:	4.5
Copyright:	2008 Alessandro Iurlano 2008 Florian octo Forster
License:	GPLv2
Manpage:	collectd.conf(5)
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The FileCount plugin does something very simple: Count the number of files in a directory and all its subdirectories. This can be used for a variety of statistics, for example the queue length of an MTA, the number of PHP sessions of a web server or simply the number of files in your home directory.

In addition to the number of files, the plugin also collects the total size of all files. Think: du(1).

In come cases collecting all files in a directory is not desired. For instance, the session files of the CGI::Session Perl module reside in /tmp. But counting all files in /tmp doesn't tell you anything about the number of sessions. For this reason the plugin also allows you to specify which files to count. Files can be selected by:

• Name (shell wildcards)
• Size
• Modification time

This plugin is a generic plugin, i.e. it cannot work without configuration, because there is no reasonable default behavior. Please read the Plugin filecount section of the collectd.conf(5) manual page for an in-depth description of the plugin's configuration.

Synopsis

<Plugin "filecount">
  <Directory "/var/qmail/queue/mess">
    Instance "qmail-message"
  </Directory>
  <Directory "/var/qmail/queue/todo">
    Instance "qmail-todo"
  </Directory>
  <Directory "/var/lib/php5">
    Instance "php5-sessions"
    Name "sess_*"
  </Directory>
</Plugin>

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Dependencies

• None