Version 5.8

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

Changes

Release 5.8.0

WiP; changes up to af12cc40e48331f8c98294239cef60393218a46d

• Build system: 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
• cURL, 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
• DPDKStat plugin: The plugin has been refactored to make DPDK related utility functions reusable. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2130
• gRPC plugin: Support for meta data has been added. Thanks to Taylor Cramer. #2378
• 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). Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk. #2276
• 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. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Volodymyr Mytnyk, Taras Chornyi and Krzysztof Matczak. #2003
• Netlink plugin: The dropped packets metric has been added. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2053
• NUT plugin: The ConnectTimeout option has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2354
• OpenLDAP plugin: A segfault after a connection failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2377
• ovs events plugin: This new plugin reports link state changes from Open vSwitch (OVS). Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk. #1971
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Write Graphite plugin: Additional tests have been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
• 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. #2059
• ZFS ARC plugin: Header lines are now ignored in the Linux implementation. Thanks to YmrDtnJu. #2097