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* ''collectd:'' The core daemon is now completely licensed under the ''MIT license''.  
 
* ''collectd:'' The core daemon is now completely licensed under the ''MIT license''.  
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* ''collectd:'' Added daemon option to avoid making BaseDir. Thanks to Nathaniel Wesley Filardo and Florian Forster. {{Issue|2422}}
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* ''collectd:'' Added daemon option to avoid making BaseDir. Thanks to ''Nathaniel Wesley Filardo'' and ''Florian Forster''. {{Issue|2422}}
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* ''Collectd'' as well as [[Plugin:Apache|Apache]], [[Plugin:memcached|memcached]], [[Plugin:OpenLDAP|OpenLDAP]], [[Plugin:Perl|Perl]], [[Plugin:RouterOS|RouterOS]], [[Plugin:SNMP|SNMP]], [[Plugin:Tail-CSV|Tail-CSV]] plugins: free userdata for plugin_register_complex_read(). Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. {{Issue|2349}}
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* ''Collectd'' as well as [[Plugin:Apache|Apache]], [[Plugin:memcached|memcached]], [[Plugin:OpenLDAP|OpenLDAP]], [[Plugin:Perl|Perl]], [[Plugin:RouterOS|RouterOS]], [[Plugin:SNMP|SNMP]], [[Plugin:Tail-CSV|Tail-CSV]] plugins: free userdata for plugin_register_complex_read(). Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2349}}
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* ''Collectd'' client library: added parsing and server code. Thanks to Florian Forster. {{Issue|2258}}
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* ''Collectd'' client library: added parsing and server code. Thanks to ''Florian Forster''. {{Issue|2258}}
 
* ''Build system:'' Dependency on ''libltdl'' has been removed, support for libtool 1 has been dropped. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|1898}}
 
* ''Build system:'' Dependency on ''libltdl'' has been removed, support for libtool 1 has been dropped. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|1898}}
 
* ''Build system:'' The build system has been switched to non-recursive make. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|2085}}
 
* ''Build system:'' The build system has been switched to non-recursive make. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|2085}}
 
* {{Plugin|APC UPS}}: The plugin's configuration is now optional. Without a <code>&lt;Plugin /&gt;</code> block reasonable defaults will be used. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2351}}
 
* {{Plugin|APC UPS}}: The plugin's configuration is now optional. Without a <code>&lt;Plugin /&gt;</code> block reasonable defaults will be used. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2351}}
 
* {{Plugin|Chrony}}: Several issues found when working with a stratum-1 server have been fixed. Thanks to ''Miroslav Lichvar''. {{Issue|2190}}
 
* {{Plugin|Chrony}}: Several issues found when working with a stratum-1 server have been fixed. Thanks to ''Miroslav Lichvar''. {{Issue|2190}}
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* {{Plugin|CPU}} : add linux-specific "guest" states. Thanks to Xavier G. {{Issue|2439}}
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* {{Plugin|CPU}} : add linux-specific "guest" states. Thanks to ''Xavier G''. {{Issue|2439}}
 
* {{Plugin|cURL}}, [[Plugin:cURL-JSON|cURL-JSON]], [[Plugin:cURL-XML|cURL-XML]], [[Plugin:DBI|DBI]], [[Plugin:FileCount|FileCount]], [[Plugin:memcachec|memcachec]], [[Plugin:Oracle|Oracle]], [[Plugin:PostgreSQL|PostgreSQL]], [[Plugin:Table|Table]], [[Plugin:Tail|Tail]], [[Plugin:Tail CSV|Tail CSV]] plugins: The ability to configure the <code>plugin</code> field of generated metrics has been added. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|1944}}
 
* {{Plugin|cURL}}, [[Plugin:cURL-JSON|cURL-JSON]], [[Plugin:cURL-XML|cURL-XML]], [[Plugin:DBI|DBI]], [[Plugin:FileCount|FileCount]], [[Plugin:memcachec|memcachec]], [[Plugin:Oracle|Oracle]], [[Plugin:PostgreSQL|PostgreSQL]], [[Plugin:Table|Table]], [[Plugin:Tail|Tail]], [[Plugin:Tail CSV|Tail CSV]] plugins: The ability to configure the <code>plugin</code> field of generated metrics has been added. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|1944}}
 
* {{Plugin|cURL-JSON}}: Parsing of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2281}}
 
* {{Plugin|cURL-JSON}}: Parsing of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2281}}
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* {{Plugin|DPDKEvents}}: 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. {{Issue|2157}}, {{Issue|2348}}, {{Issue|2400}}, {{Issue|2405}}, {{Issue|2417}}
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* {{Plugin|DPDKEvents}}: 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''. {{Issue|2157}}, {{Issue|2348}}, {{Issue|2400}}, {{Issue|2405}}, {{Issue|2417}}
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* {{Plugin|DPDKStat}}: The plugin has been refactored to make DPDK related utility functions reusable. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak, Przemyslaw Szczerbik, Christian Ehrhardt and Luca Boccassi. {{Issue|2130}}, {{Issue|2348}}, {{Issue|2400}}, {{Issue|2405}}, {{Issue|2417}}
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* {{Plugin|DPDKStat}}: The plugin has been refactored to make DPDK related utility functions reusable. Thanks to ''Krzysztof Matczak'', ''Przemyslaw Szczerbik'', ''Christian Ehrhardt'' and ''Luca Boccassi''. {{Issue|2130}}, {{Issue|2348}}, {{Issue|2400}}, {{Issue|2405}}, {{Issue|2417}}
−
* {{Plugin|FileCount}}: Custom values for reported plugin, type and type instance. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. {{Issue|1979}}
+
* {{Plugin|Email}} as well as [[Plugin:Exec|Exec]] and [[Plugin:Unixsock|Unixsock]] plugins: Use _SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX. Thanks to ''Florian Forster''. {{Issue|2451}}
 +
* {{Plugin|FileCount}}: Custom values for reported plugin, type and type instance. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|1979}}
 
* {{Plugin|GenericJMX}}: Support for <code>AtomicInteger</code> and <code>AtomicLong</code> has been added. Thanks to ''Pierre Mauduit''. {{Issue|2158}}
 
* {{Plugin|GenericJMX}}: Support for <code>AtomicInteger</code> and <code>AtomicLong</code> has been added. Thanks to ''Pierre Mauduit''. {{Issue|2158}}
 
* {{Plugin|gRPC}}: Support for meta data has been added. Thanks to ''Taylor Cramer''. {{Issue|2378}}
 
* {{Plugin|gRPC}}: Support for meta data has been added. Thanks to ''Taylor Cramer''. {{Issue|2378}}
−
* {{Plugin|IPC}}: Fixed failed compilation on AIX. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. {{Issue|2357}}
+
* {{Plugin|IPC}}: Fixed failed compilation on AIX. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2357}}
 
* [[Plugin:Processes|Processes]] and [[Plugin:TCPConns|TCPConns]] plugins: The OpenBSD implementation has been changed to use <code>kvm_openfiles</code> with <code>KVM_NO_FILES</code>. Thanks to ''Jeremie Courreges-Anglas''. {{Issue|2061}}
 
* [[Plugin:Processes|Processes]] and [[Plugin:TCPConns|TCPConns]] plugins: The OpenBSD implementation has been changed to use <code>kvm_openfiles</code> with <code>KVM_NO_FILES</code>. Thanks to ''Jeremie Courreges-Anglas''. {{Issue|2061}}
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* {{Plugin|Intel PMU}}: 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. {{Issue|2276}}, {{Issue|2398}}, {{Issue|2374}}
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* {{Plugin|Intel PMU}}: 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''. {{Issue|2276}}, {{Issue|2398}}, {{Issue|2374}}
 
* {{Plugin|Intel RDT}}: 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''. {{Issue|2089}}.
 
* {{Plugin|Intel RDT}}: 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''. {{Issue|2089}}.
 
* {{Plugin|IPMI}}: Support for ''System Event Log'' (SEL) has been added. Thanks to ''Roman Korynkevych''. {{Issue|2091}}
 
* {{Plugin|IPMI}}: Support for ''System Event Log'' (SEL) has been added. Thanks to ''Roman Korynkevych''. {{Issue|2091}}
 
* {{Plugin|IPMI}}: Support for remote IPMI controllers has been added. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2024}}
 
* {{Plugin|IPMI}}: Support for remote IPMI controllers has been added. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2024}}
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* {{Plugin|mcelog}}: 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. {{Issue|2003}}, {{Issue|2246}}, {{Issue|2380}}
+
* {{Plugin|mcelog}}: 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''. {{Issue|2003}}, {{Issue|2246}}, {{Issue|2380}}
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* {{Plugin|MQTT}}: Add support for TLS in Subscriber blocks. Thanks to Florian Forster. {{Issue|2434}}
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* {{Plugin|MQTT}}: Add support for TLS in Subscriber blocks. Thanks to ''Florian Forster''. {{Issue|2434}}
−
* {{Plugin|memcached}}: Implemented persistent connections. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. {{Issue|2388}}
+
* {{Plugin|memcached}}: Implemented persistent connections. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2388}}
 
* {{Plugin|Netlink}}: The dropped packets metric has been added. Thanks to ''Denys Fedoryshchenko''. {{Issue|2053}}
 
* {{Plugin|Netlink}}: The dropped packets metric has been added. Thanks to ''Denys Fedoryshchenko''. {{Issue|2053}}
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* {{Plugin|NFS}}: Add config options to ignore versions. Thanks to Christian Bartolomäus. {{Issue|2430}}
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* {{Plugin|NFS}}: Add config options to ignore versions. Thanks to ''Christian Bartolomäus''. {{Issue|2430}}
 
* {{Plugin|NUT}}: The <code>ConnectTimeout</code> option has been added. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2354}}
 
* {{Plugin|NUT}}: The <code>ConnectTimeout</code> option has been added. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2354}}
 
* {{Plugin|NUT}}: The <code>ForceSSL</code>, <code>VerifyPeer</code> and <code>CAPath</code> option have been added. Thanks to ''Steven Bell''. {{Issue|2145}}
 
* {{Plugin|NUT}}: The <code>ForceSSL</code>, <code>VerifyPeer</code> and <code>CAPath</code> option have been added. Thanks to ''Steven Bell''. {{Issue|2145}}
 
* {{Plugin|OpenLDAP}}: A segfault after a connection failure has been fixed. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2377}}
 
* {{Plugin|OpenLDAP}}: A segfault after a connection failure has been fixed. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2377}}
−
* {{Plugin|Openvpn}}: Added support for status files from latest OpenVPN-2.4 and possible from future versions. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. {{Issue|2352}}
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* {{Plugin|Openvpn}}: Added support for status files from latest OpenVPN-2.4 and possible from future versions. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2352}}
 
* {{Plugin|OVS Events}}: This new plugin reports link state changes from ''Open vSwitch'' (OVS). Thanks to ''Volodymyr Mytnyk''. {{Issue|1971}}
 
* {{Plugin|OVS Events}}: This new plugin reports link state changes from ''Open vSwitch'' (OVS). Thanks to ''Volodymyr Mytnyk''. {{Issue|1971}}
 
* {{Plugin|OVS Stats}}: This new plugin reports bridge / interface statistics from ''Open vSwitch'' (OVS). Thanks to ''Volodymyr Mytnyk'' and ''Taras Chornyi''. {{Issue|2137}}
 
* {{Plugin|OVS Stats}}: This new plugin reports bridge / interface statistics from ''Open vSwitch'' (OVS). Thanks to ''Volodymyr Mytnyk'' and ''Taras Chornyi''. {{Issue|2137}}
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* {{Plugin|Perl}}: Bugfix, added check of proper interpreter initialization. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. {{Issue|2391}}
+
* {{Plugin|Perl}}: Bugfix, added check of proper interpreter initialization. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2391}}
−
* {{Plugin|Processes}}: The I/O operations reported for selected processes has been fixed. The metric <code>ps_disk_octets</code> has been renamed to <code>io_octets</code> because it actually contains the number of I/O operation by the process, not just disk related I/O. Same for <code>io_ops</code> (previously <code>ps_disk_ops</code>). The new metric <code>disk_octets</code> has been added and is reporting ''disk'' I/O only. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2232}}
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* {{Plugin|Processes}}: The I/O operations reported for selected processes has been fixed. The metric <code>ps_disk_octets</code> has been renamed to <code>io_octets</code> because it actually contains the number of I/O operation by the process, not just disk related I/O. Same for <code>io_ops</code> (previously <code>ps_disk_ops</code>). The new metric <code>disk_octets</code> has been added and is reporting ''disk'' I/O only. Add option to collect the count of active memory maps for linux processes. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack'' and to ''Wilfried Goesgens''. {{Issue|2232}}, {{Issue|2454}}
 
* {{Plugin|Processes}}: The <code>CollectFileDescriptor</code> and <code>CollectContextSwitch</code> options have been added. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|1989}}
 
* {{Plugin|Processes}}: The <code>CollectFileDescriptor</code> and <code>CollectContextSwitch</code> options have been added. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|1989}}
 
* {{Plugin|Sensors}}: Support for (electrical) current has been added. Thanks to ''Clemens Gruber''. {{Issue|2255}}
 
* {{Plugin|Sensors}}: Support for (electrical) current has been added. Thanks to ''Clemens Gruber''. {{Issue|2255}}
 +
* {{Plugin|snmp}}: Added proper check for res->errstat and to try to get available data. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2449}}
 
* {{Plugin|SNMP Agent}}: 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''. {{Issue|2105}}, {{Issue|2362}}
 
* {{Plugin|SNMP Agent}}: 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''. {{Issue|2105}}, {{Issue|2362}}
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* {{Plugin|Synproxy}}: This new plugin provides statistics for Linux SYNPROXY. Thanks to Marek Bečka. {{Issue|2381}}
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* {{Plugin|Synproxy}}: This new plugin provides statistics for Linux SYNPROXY. Thanks to ''Marek Bečka''. {{Issue|2381}}
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* {{Plugin|Table}}: Allow custom plugin name to be reported. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. {{Issue|2435}}
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* {{Plugin|Table}}: Allow custom plugin name to be reported. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2435}}
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* {{Plugin|Tail}}: Allow the calculation of several distributions in one 'tail' instance through a 'bucket' type. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. {{Issue|2442}}
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* {{Plugin|Tail}}: Allow the calculation of several distributions in one 'tail' instance through a 'bucket' type. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2442}}
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* {{Plugin|Uptime}}: changed implementation to read from /proc/uptime instead of /proc/stat. Thanks to Ivan Kurnosov. {{Issue|2431}}
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* {{Plugin|Turbostat}}: Import msr-index header from linux and better support for mutliple packages. Thanks to ''Vincent Brillault''. {{Issue|2445}}, {{Issue|2446}}
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* {{Plugin|Uptime}}: changed implementation to read from /proc/uptime instead of /proc/stat. Update for Linux and AIX, uptime is read directly using a system call. Update for BSD and Solaris, uptime is calculated by subtracting boot time from current time. Thanks to ''Ivan Kurnosov'' and ''Marcin Jurkowski''. {{Issue|2431}}, {{Issue|2034}}
 
* {{Plugin|UUID}}: Support for ''libhal'' has been removed. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|2080}}
 
* {{Plugin|UUID}}: Support for ''libhal'' has been removed. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|2080}}
 
* {{Plugin|virt}}: The plugin has been updated to use <code>virConnectListAllDomains()</code>. Thanks to ''Denis Silakov''. {{Issue|2051}}
 
* {{Plugin|virt}}: The plugin has been updated to use <code>virConnectListAllDomains()</code>. Thanks to ''Denis Silakov''. {{Issue|2051}}
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* {{Plugin|Write MongoDB}}: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to ''Saikrishna Arcot''. {{Issue|2307}}
 
* {{Plugin|Write MongoDB}}: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to ''Saikrishna Arcot''. {{Issue|2307}}
 
* {{Plugin|Write Prometheus}}: Label values are now properly escaped. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2035}}
 
* {{Plugin|Write Prometheus}}: Label values are now properly escaped. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2035}}
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* {{Plugin|Write Redis}}: Add max_set_duration to set duration for value. Thanks to ''Tomofumi Hayashi''. {{Issue|2440}}
 
* {{Plugin|Write Riemann}}: Export times with microsecond resolution. Thanks to ''mcorbin''. {{Issue|2315}}
 
* {{Plugin|Write Riemann}}: Export times with microsecond resolution. Thanks to ''mcorbin''. {{Issue|2315}}
 
* {{Plugin|Write TSDB}}: The options <code>ResolveInterval</code> and <code>ResolveJitter</code> have been added to control DNS lookup behavior. This prevents DNS flooding in case TSDB is not available. Thanks to ''Yves Mettier'' and [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2059}}
 
* {{Plugin|Write TSDB}}: The options <code>ResolveInterval</code> and <code>ResolveJitter</code> have been added to control DNS lookup behavior. This prevents DNS flooding in case TSDB is not available. Thanks to ''Yves Mettier'' and [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2059}}

Revision as of 16:30, 16 October 2017

List of versions
Version 5.11
Version 5.10
Version 5.9
Version 5.8
Version 5.7
Version 5.6
Version 5.5
Version 5.4
Version 5.3
Version 5.2
Version 5.1
Version 5.0

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 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
  • Email plugin as well as Exec and Unixsock plugins: Use _SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2451
  • 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. 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. Add option to collect the count of active memory maps for linux processes. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack and to Wilfried Goesgens. #2232, #2454
  • 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 plugin: Added proper check for res->errstat and to try to get available data. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2449
  • 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
  • Turbostat plugin: Import msr-index header from linux and better support for mutliple packages. Thanks to Vincent Brillault. #2445, #2446
  • Uptime plugin: changed implementation to read from /proc/uptime instead of /proc/stat. Update for Linux and AIX, uptime is read directly using a system call. Update for BSD and Solaris, uptime is calculated by subtracting boot time from current time. Thanks to Ivan Kurnosov and Marcin Jurkowski. #2431, #2034
  • 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 Redis plugin: Add max_set_duration to set duration for value. Thanks to Tomofumi Hayashi. #2440
  • 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
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