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.
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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.
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