IMPORTANT!!! Collectd 5.1+ comes with a C-based graphite plugin. I would recommend using that as it will be maintained going forward as part of collectd. More info here: http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Write_Graphite

Collectd-Graphite Plugin

This plugin acts as bridge between collectd's huge base of available plugins and graphite's excellent graphing capabilities. It sends collectd data directly to your graphite server.

It is implemented using the collectd-perl interface.

This plugin was inspired by the great collectd-to-graphite tool written by the prolific engineer Jordan Sissel at Loggly. Jordan's implementation uses an external process to bridge collectd to graphite. I did not want another process to manage or worry about, so I wrote a plugin for collectd instead.

REQUIREMENTS

Because the plugin requires the Globals option to be set to true, you will need at least version 4.9 of collectd. If you are using an older version, you'll have to compile with global visibility of symbols.

As of version 3, the plugin should work fine with collectd 5.0 as well.

This is the command to compile collectd with global visibility symbols:

./configure CFLAGS="-DLT_LAZY_OR_NOW='RTLD_LAZY|RTLD_GLOBAL'"
make all install

INSTALLATION

Make sure collectd and the collectd-perl module are installed.

This was tested on CentOS 5 using the "collectd-4.10" and "perl-Collectd-4.10" rpm's from the EPEL yum repo.

Feedback on installing on other platforms is welcome.

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Collectd 4.10.3 on RHEL5 / CentOS 5 errors

( Thanks to https://github.com/indygreg/collectd-carbon for this info which also affects collectd perl plugins. )

Using the plugin with collectd-4.10.3 from EPEL5 on RHEL or CentOS 5.x may produce the following error:

# /etc/init.d/collectd start
Starting collectd: plugin_load_file: The global flag is not supported, libtool 2 is required for this.
perl: Initializing Perl interpreter...
Can't load '/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/threads/threads.so' for module threads: /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/threads/threads.so: undefined symbol: PL_no_mem at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Collectd.pm line 27
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Collectd.pm line 27.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Collectd.pm line 27.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
perl: init_pi: Unable to bootstrap Collectd: Can't load '/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/threads/threads.so' for module threads: /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/threads/threads.so: undefined symbol: PL_no_mem at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Collectd.pm line 27
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Collectd.pm line 27.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Collectd.pm line 27.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted
perl: Configuration failed with a fatal error - plugin disabled!

This may also occur on other operating systems. It is caused by a libtool/libltdl quirk described in this mailing list thread. As per the workarounds detailed there, you may either:

Modify the init script.

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
        if [ -r "$CONFIG" ]
        then
-               daemon /usr/sbin/collectd -C "$CONFIG"
+               LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so daemon /usr/sbin/collectd -C "$CONFIG"
                RETVAL=$?
                echo
                [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog

Modify the RPM and rebuild.

@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@


 %build
-%configure \
+%configure CFLAGS=-"DLT_LAZY_OR_NOW='RTLD_LAZY|RTLD_GLOBAL'" \
     --disable-static \
     --disable-ascent \
     --disable-apple_sensors \

CONFIGURATION

Add the following to your collectd.conf:

<LoadPlugin "perl">
	Globals true
</LoadPlugin>

<Plugin "perl">
  BaseName "Collectd::Plugins"
  LoadPlugin "Graphite"

	<Plugin "Graphite">
	  Buffer "256000"
	  Prefix "servers"
	  Host   "graphite.example.com"
	  Port   "2003"
	</Plugin>
</Plugin>

NETWORK TRAFFIC

Metrics are stored in an 8KB buffer before being sent to graphite in order to take reduce network overhead. The buffer size is configurable in the config file.

Data is sent to graphite on a "best effort" basis. If the graphite server is down or the tcp connection fails, you will lose that buffer's worth of data.

GRAPHITE PATHS

Graphite paths are constructed according to Collectd's standard serialized form, eg:

prefix.host_name.plugin[-plugin_instance].type[-type_instance].metric_name

Examples of valid paths:

collectd.host1_example_com.cpu-0.cpu-idle.value
collectd.host2_example_com.disk-sda.disk_octets.read
collectd.host3_example_com.load.load.shortterm
collectd.host3_example_com.interface.if_octets-eth0.rx

The default prefix is 'collectd'. This can be changed in the collectd config file.

See here for more information on collectd plugin naming:

http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Naming_schema#Plugin_instance_and_type_instance

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Collectd::Plugins::Graphite

You can also look for information on the github page:

https://github.com/joemiller/collectd-graphite

Please use the github issues page for bugs and feedback. Pull requests are also welcome!

https://github.com/joemiller/collectd-graphite/issues

You can also check the syslog (/var/log/syslog) where the plugin will log any unsuccessful attempts to connect to your Graphite server.

Changelog

See the Changes file.

FUTURE?

write tests!!
Support sending data to graphite via AMQP
Re-write in C if collectd-perl interface proves problematic

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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