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collectd
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collectd

#31in Monitoring
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What is collectd?

collectd gathers statistics about the system it is running on and stores this information. Those statistics can then be used to find current performance bottlenecks (i.e. performance analysis) and predict future system load (i.e. capacity planning). Or if you just want pretty graphs of your private server and are fed up with some homegrown solution you're at the right place, too.

collectd is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.

Key Features

fastsimpleintegratedeasy to operate

collectd Pros & Cons

Pros of collectd

  • ✓Modular, plugins
  • ✓Open Source
  • ✓KISS

Cons of collectd

No cons listed yet.

collectd Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to collectd?

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OpenCensus

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It is a set of libraries for various languages that allow you to collect application metrics and distributed traces, then transfer the data to a backend of your choice in real time. This data can be analyzed by developers and admins to understand the health of the application and debug problems.

collectd Integrations

Circonus, HostedMetrics, Librato, Graphite, Hosted Graphite are some of the popular tools that integrate with collectd. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with collectd.

Circonus
Circonus
HostedMetrics
HostedMetrics
Librato
Librato
Graphite
Graphite
Hosted Graphite
Hosted Graphite

collectd Discussions

Discover why developers choose collectd. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Łukasz Korecki
Łukasz Korecki

CTO & Co-founder at EnjoyHQ

Apr 25, 2019

Needs adviceoncollectdcollectdGoogle Compute EngineGoogle Compute EngineStatsDStatsD

We use collectd because of it's low footprint and great capabilities. We use it to monitor our Google Compute Engine machines. More interestingly we setup collectd as StatsD replacement - all our Clojure services push application-level metrics using our own metrics library and collectd pushes them to Stackdriver

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