Difference between revisions of "Version 5.7"

Revision as of 21:21, 8 December 2016

Version 5.7.0 has not been released yet.

Changes

Release 5.7.0

All changes up to b8b1e35

• Documentation: The Turbostat plugin section has been improved. Thanks to Florian Forster
• Documentation: The semantics of the TypesDB option have been improved. Thanks to Florian Forster.
• collectd: A generic interface for parsing the text protocol has been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1749
• collectd: Threads now get named, making them easily trackable using tools such as top, ps, etc. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Marc Fournier. #547
• AMQP plugin, Write_Graphite plugin, Write_Kafka plugin: The new [Graphite]PreserveSeparator option allows retaining the default dot separator rather than escaping it. Thanks to Florian Forster. #419
• Battery plugin: A StateFS backend for gathering statistics has been added. Thanks to Rinigus. #1795
• CPU plugin: CPU aggregation on AIX was fixed. Thanks to Chao Yang. #1957
• Collectd::Unixsock plugin: Fractional seconds support has been made more robust. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #2052
• DPDKStat plugin: This new plugin collects DPDK interface statistics. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Taras Chornyi and Kim Jones. #1649
• GRPC plugin: The DispatchValues option has been renamed to PutValues. Thanks to Florian Forster.
• HDDTemp plugin: The 32 devices limit has been removed. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #631
• Hugepages plugin: This new plugin report the number of used and free hugepages on Linux. Thanks to Jaroslav Safka, Maryam Tahhan, Kim Jones and Florian Forster. #1799
• Intel_RDT plugin: This new plugin collectd statistics exposed by Intel's Resource Director Technology . Thanks to SerhiyX. #1970
• MemcacheD plugin: The new Address option allows connecting to a different server than specified by the Host option. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1975
• Nginx plugin: Support for reporting failed connections has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1609
• Perl plugin: Significant internal reworking has been made. The new RegisterLegacyFlush option has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #
• PostgreSQL plugin: Timestamps are now RFC 3339-formatted local time. Thanks to Igor Peshansky and Dave Cunningham. #1918
• Processes plugin: Internal performance improvements have been made. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1980, #1981
• RRDCacheD plugin: The plugin now tries to reconnect upon failed operations. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1959
• SpamAssassin plugin: The plugin can now run in tainted mode. Thanks to Akos Vandra. #1962
• Tail plugin: Support for calculating latency distribution of matching values has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack and Florian Forster. #1700
• Tail plugin: The new GaugePersist option has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2015
• Target_set plugin, Target_replace plugin, Match_regex plugin: MetaData support has been added . Thanks to Igor Peshansky. #1922, #1923, #1930
• Turbostat plugin: The new LogicalCoreNames option allows switching to per-core naming rather than per-CPU. Thanks to Brock Johnson. #2056
• Virt plugin: The new BlockDeviceFormat and BlockDeviceFormatBasename options help controlling the names reported for block-device metrics. Thanks to Deyan Chepishev. #2004
• Write_Graphite plugin: A new DropDuplicateFields option has been added. Thanks to Michael Leinartas. #1915
• Write_Kafka plugin: The Key Random setting has been reintroduced. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
• Write_Log plugin: Support for formatting output in JSON has been added, using the new Format configuration option. Thanks to Igor Peshansky. #1924
• Write_Prometheus plugin: This new plugin publishes values using an embedded HTTP server, in a format compatible with Prometheus' collectd_exporter. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1967