Difference between revisions of "Version 5.8"

Revision as of 16:31, 14 October 2017

Version 5.8 has not yet been released and is work in progress.

Changes

Release 5.8.0

WiP; changes up to af12cc40e48331f8c98294239cef60393218a46d

• collectd: The core daemon is now completely licensed under the MIT license.
• collectd: Added daemon option to avoid making BaseDir. Thanks to Nathaniel Wesley Filardo and Florian Forster. #2422
• Collectd as well as Apache, memcached, OpenLDAP, Perl, RouterOS, SNMP, Tail-CSV plugins: free userdata for plugin_register_complex_read(). Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2349
• Collectd client library: added parsing and server code. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2258
• Build system: Dependency on libltdl has been removed, support for libtool 1 has been dropped. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1898
• Build system: The build system has been switched to non-recursive make. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2085
• APC UPS plugin: The plugin's configuration is now optional. Without a <Plugin /> block reasonable defaults will be used. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2351
• Chrony plugin: Several issues found when working with a stratum-1 server have been fixed. Thanks to Miroslav Lichvar. #2190
• CPU plugin : add linux-specific "guest" states. Thanks to Xavier G. #2439
• cURL plugin, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, DBI, FileCount, memcachec, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Table, Tail, Tail CSV plugins: The ability to configure the plugin field of generated metrics has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1944
• cURL-JSON plugin: Parsing of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to [User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. #2281
• DPDKEvents plugin: This new plugin reports link status and keep alive events. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Serhiy Pshyk, Kim-Marie Jones, Krzysztof Matczak, Przemyslaw Szczerbik, Christian Ehrhardt and Luca Boccassi. #2157, #2348, #2400, #2405, #2417
• DPDKStat plugin: The plugin has been refactored to make DPDK related utility functions reusable. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak, Przemyslaw Szczerbik, Christian Ehrhardt and Luca Boccassi. #2130, #2348, #2400, #2405, #2417
• FileCount plugin: Custom values for reported plugin, type and type instance. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1979
• GenericJMX plugin: Support for AtomicInteger and AtomicLong has been added. Thanks to Pierre Mauduit. #2158
• gRPC plugin: Support for meta data has been added. Thanks to Taylor Cramer. #2378
• IPC plugin: Fixed failed compilation on AIX. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2357
• Processes and TCPConns plugins: The OpenBSD implementation has been changed to use kvm_openfiles with KVM_NO_FILES. Thanks to Jeremie Courreges-Anglas. #2061
• Intel PMU plugin: This new plugin collects CPU performance metrics using Intel's Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU). Scaling information added to metadata. Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk and Roman Korynkevych. #2276, #2398, #2374
• Intel RDT plugin: Support for collectd's logging infrastructure has been added. PQoS monitoring groups are being reset on start-up to fix potential previous unclean shutdowns. Thanks to Roman Korynkevych. #2089.
• IPMI plugin: Support for System Event Log (SEL) has been added. Thanks to Roman Korynkevych. #2091
• IPMI plugin: Support for remote IPMI controllers has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2024
• mcelog plugin: This new plugin subscribes to Machine Check Exceptions (MCE) and dispatches notifications. Metadata reset. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Volodymyr Mytnyk, Taras Chornyi, Krzysztof Matczak and Roman Korynkevych. #2003, #2246, #2380
• MQTT plugin: Add support for TLS in Subscriber blocks. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2434
• memcached plugin: Implemented persistent connections. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2388
• Netlink plugin: The dropped packets metric has been added. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2053
• NFS plugin: Add config options to ignore versions and . Thanks to Christian Bartolomäus. #2430
• NUT plugin: The ConnectTimeout option has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2354
• NUT plugin: The ForceSSL, VerifyPeer and CAPath option have been added. Thanks to Steven Bell. #2145
• OpenLDAP plugin: A segfault after a connection failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2377
• Openvpn plugin: Added support for status files from latest OpenVPN-2.4 and possible from future versions. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2352
• OVS Events plugin: This new plugin reports link state changes from Open vSwitch (OVS). Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk. #1971
• OVS Stats plugin: This new plugin reports bridge / interface statistics from Open vSwitch (OVS). Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk and Taras Chornyi. #2137
• Perl plugin: Bugfix, added check of proper interpreter initialization. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2391
• Processes plugin: The I/O operations reported for selected processes has been fixed. The metric ps_disk_octets has been renamed to io_octets because it actually contains the number of I/O operation by the process, not just disk related I/O. Same for io_ops (previously ps_disk_ops). The new metric disk_octets has been added and is reporting disk I/O only. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2232
• Processes plugin: The CollectFileDescriptor and CollectContextSwitch options have been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1989
• Sensors plugin: Support for (electrical) current has been added. Thanks to Clemens Gruber. #2255
• SNMP Agent plugin: This new plugin implements an SNMP AgentX subagent that receives and handles queries from SNMP master agent and returns configured metrics. Thanks to Roman Korynkevych, Serhiy Pshyk and Pavel Rochnyack. #2105, #2362
• Synproxy plugin: This new plugin provides statistics for Linux SYNPROXY. Thanks to Marek Bečka. #2381
• Table plugin: Allow custom plugin name to be reported. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2435
• Tail plugin: Allow the calculation of several distributions in one 'tail' instance through a 'bucket' type. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2442
• Uptime plugin: changed implementation to read from /proc/uptime instead of /proc/stat. Thanks to Ivan Kurnosov. #2431
• UUID plugin: Support for libhal has been removed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2080
• virt plugin: The plugin has been updated to use virConnectListAllDomains(). Thanks to Denis Silakov. #2051
• virt plugin: Support for domain tags has been added. Thanks to Francesco Romani. #2048
• virt plugin: Connection handling has been improved. Thanks to Francesco Romani. #2100, #2101
• virt plugin: Many metrics have been added, including disk, hypervisor CPU usage, performance monitoring events, domain state, CPU pinning (affinity), file system, and job statistics. Thanks to Francesco Romani and Przemyslaw Szczerbik. #2103, #2175, #2168
• Write Graphite plugin: Additional tests have been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
• Write HTTP plugin: The Attribute and TTL options for the KairosDB format have been added. Thanks to jaroug. #2199, #2252
• Write MongoDB plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Saikrishna Arcot. #2307
• Write Prometheus plugin: Label values are now properly escaped. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2035
• Write Riemann plugin: Export times with microsecond resolution. Thanks to mcorbin. #2315
• Write TSDB plugin: The options ResolveInterval and ResolveJitter have been added to control DNS lookup behavior. This prevents DNS flooding in case TSDB is not available. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster. #2059
• ZFS ARC plugin: Header lines are now ignored in the Linux implementation. Thanks to YmrDtnJu. #2097