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Purpose
collectd is a daemon that periodically collects system and application performance metrics and provides mechanisms to store them in various ways.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org
Platforms
The download page lists packages or ports for Debian and Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE and SLES, Red Hat and CentOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, OpenWrt, and T2 SDE.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org
Support
The project directs bug reports to its bug tracker and uses its mailing list for announcements and development discussions.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org
Documentation
The project provides manpages, a getting started guide, specialized documentation, and a plugin list in its source README.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org
Download formats
The download page offers source packages as GZip or BZip2 compressed tar archives.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org
Metric sources
It gathers metrics from operating systems, applications, logfiles, and external devices.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org
Monitoring limit
The homepage says its monitoring functionality is limited to simple threshold checking.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org
Performance and portability
The project says collectd is written in C for performance and portability, including use on systems without a scripting language or cron daemon.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org
Plugins
The homepage says the daemon comes with over 100 plugins.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org
Scale
The homepage says collectd includes optimizations and features to handle hundreds of thousands of metrics.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org
Security contact
The contact page provides [email protected] and GnuPG key 0x0C705A15 for reporting sensitive security issues.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org
Storage and graphs
collectd can write to RRD files but does not generate graphs from them.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org
Uses
Collected statistics can be used to monitor systems, find performance bottlenecks, and predict future system load.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org
Windows
The download page points to SSC Serv, a native Windows application that collects and dispatches performance data using the collectd network protocol.Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org

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collectd Free System and application metrics collection; stores metrics or makes them available over the network Read 4 Oct 2026 · collectd.org

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