Plugin:Write HTTP

Write HTTP plugin
Type:	write
Status:	in development
First version:	1.3
Copyright:	2009 Paul Sadauskas 2009 Doug MacEachern 2007–2009 Florian octo Forster
License:	GPLv2
Manpage:	n/a
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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.

Synopsis

<Plugin "write_http">
  <URL "http://example.com/post-collectd">
    User "collectd"
    Password "weCh3ik0"
  </URL>
</Plugin>

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
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Dependencies

• libcurl

See also

• Plain text protocol
• Exec plugin
• UnixSock plugin