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COLLECTD.CONF(5)                   collectd                   COLLECTD.CONF(5)

NAME
       collectd.conf - Configuration for the system statistics collection
       daemon collectd
SYNOPSIS
         BaseDir "/var/lib/collectd"
         PIDFile "/run/collectd.pid"
         Interval 10.0
         LoadPlugin cpu
         LoadPlugin load
         <LoadPlugin df>
           Interval 3600
         </LoadPlugin>
         <Plugin df>
           ValuesPercentage true
         </Plugin>
         LoadPlugin ping
         <Plugin ping>
           Host "example.org"
           Host "provider.net"
         </Plugin>
DESCRIPTION
       This config file controls how the system statistics collection daemon
       collectd behaves. The most significant option is LoadPlugin, which
       controls which plugins to load. These plugins ultimately define
       collectd's behavior. If the AutoLoadPlugin option has been enabled, the
       explicit LoadPlugin lines may be omitted for all plugins with a
       configuration block, i.e. a "<Plugin ...>" block.
       The syntax of this config file is similar to the config file of the
       famous Apache webserver. Each line contains either an option (a key and
       a list of one or more values) or a section-start or -end. Empty lines
       and everything after a non-quoted hash-symbol ("#") are ignored. Keys
       are unquoted strings, consisting only of alphanumeric characters and
       the underscore ("_") character. Keys are handled case insensitive by
       collectd itself and all plugins included with it. Values can either be
       an unquoted string, a quoted string (enclosed in double-quotes) a
       number or a boolean expression. Unquoted strings consist of only
       alphanumeric characters and underscores ("_") and do not need to be
       quoted. Quoted strings are enclosed in double quotes ("""). You can use
       the backslash character ("\") to include double quotes as part of the
       string. Numbers can be specified in decimal and floating point format
       (using a dot "." as decimal separator), hexadecimal when using the "0x"
       prefix and octal with a leading zero (0).  Boolean values are either
       true or false.
       Lines may be wrapped by using "\" as the last character before the
       newline.  This allows long lines to be split into multiple lines.
       Quoted strings may be wrapped as well. However, those are treated
       special in that whitespace at the beginning of the following lines will
       be ignored, which allows for nicely indenting the wrapped lines.
       The configuration is read and processed in order, i.e. from top to
       bottom. So the plugins are loaded in the order listed in this config
       file. It is a good idea to load any logging plugins first in order to
       catch messages from plugins during configuration. Also, unless
       AutoLoadPlugin is enabled, the LoadPlugin option must occur before the
       appropriate "<Plugin ...>" block.
GLOBAL OPTIONS
       BaseDir Directory
           Sets the base directory. This is the directory beneath which all
           RRD-files are created. Possibly more subdirectories are created.
           This is also the working directory for the daemon.
       LoadPlugin Plugin
           Loads the plugin Plugin. This is required to load plugins, unless
           the AutoLoadPlugin option is enabled (see below). Without any
           loaded plugins, collectd will be mostly useless.
           Only the first LoadPlugin statement or block for a given plugin
           name has any effect. This is useful when you want to split up the
           configuration into smaller files and want each file to be "self
           contained", i.e. it contains a Plugin block and the appropriate
           LoadPlugin statement. The downside is that if you have multiple
           conflicting LoadPlugin blocks, e.g. when they specify different
           intervals, only one of them (the first one encountered) will take
           effect and all others will be silently ignored.
           LoadPlugin may either be a simple configuration statement or a
           block with additional options, affecting the behavior of
           LoadPlugin. A simple statement looks like this:
            LoadPlugin "cpu"
           Options inside a LoadPlugin block can override default settings and
           influence the way plugins are loaded, e.g.:
            <LoadPlugin perl>
              Interval 60
            </LoadPlugin>
           The following options are valid inside LoadPlugin blocks:
           Globals true|false
               If enabled, collectd will export all global symbols of the
               plugin (and of all libraries loaded as dependencies of the
               plugin) and, thus, makes those symbols available for resolving
               unresolved symbols in subsequently loaded plugins if that is
               supported by your system.
               This is useful (or possibly even required), e.g., when loading
               a plugin that embeds some scripting language into the daemon
               (e.g. the Perl and Python plugins). Scripting languages usually
               provide means to load extensions written in C. Those extensions
               require symbols provided by the interpreter, which is loaded as
               a dependency of the respective collectd plugin.  See the
               documentation of those plugins (e.g., collectd-perl(5) or
               collectd-python(5)) for details.
               By default, this is disabled. As a special exception, if the
               plugin name is either "perl" or "python", the default is
               changed to enabled in order to keep the average user from ever
               having to deal with this low level linking stuff.
           Interval Seconds
               Sets a plugin-specific interval for collecting metrics. This
               overrides the global Interval setting. If a plugin provides its
               own support for specifying an interval, that setting will take
               precedence.
           FlushInterval Seconds
               Specifies the interval, in seconds, to call the flush callback
               if it's defined in this plugin. By default, this is disabled.
           FlushTimeout Seconds
               Specifies the value of the timeout argument of the flush
               callback.
       AutoLoadPlugin false|true
           When set to false (the default), each plugin needs to be loaded
           explicitly, using the LoadPlugin statement documented above. If a
           <Plugin ...> block is encountered and no configuration handling
           callback for this plugin has been registered, a warning is logged
           and the block is ignored.
           When set to true, explicit LoadPlugin statements are not required.
           Each <Plugin ...> block acts as if it was immediately preceded by a
           LoadPlugin statement. LoadPlugin statements are still required for
           plugins that don't provide any configuration, e.g. the Load plugin.
       CollectInternalStats false|true
           When set to true, various statistics about the collectd daemon will
           be collected, with "collectd" as the plugin name. Defaults to
           false.
           The following metrics are reported:
           "collectd-write_queue/queue_length"
               The number of metrics currently in the write queue. You can
               limit the queue length with the WriteQueueLimitLow and
               WriteQueueLimitHigh options.
           "collectd-write_queue/derive-dropped"
               The number of metrics dropped due to a queue length limitation.
               If this value is non-zero, your system can't handle all
               incoming metrics and protects itself against overload by
               dropping metrics.
           "collectd-cache/cache_size"
               The number of elements in the metric cache (the cache you can
               interact with using collectd-unixsock(5)).
       Include Path [pattern]
           If Path points to a file, includes that file. If Path points to a
           directory, recursively includes all files within that directory and
           its subdirectories. If the "wordexp" function is available on your
           system, shell-like wildcards are expanded before files are
           included. This means you can use statements like the following:
             Include "/etc/collectd.d/*.conf"
           Starting with version 5.3, this may also be a block in which
           further options affecting the behavior of Include may be specified.
           The following option is currently allowed:
             <Include "/etc/collectd.d">
               Filter "*.conf"
             </Include>
           Filter pattern
               If the "fnmatch" function is available on your system, a shell-
               like wildcard pattern may be specified to filter which files to
               include. This may be used in combination with recursively
               including a directory to easily be able to arbitrarily mix
               configuration files and other documents (e.g. README files).
               The given example is similar to the first example above but
               includes all files matching "*.conf" in any subdirectory of
               "/etc/collectd.d".
           If more than one file is included by a single Include option, the
           files will be included in lexicographical order (as defined by the
           "strcmp" function). Thus, you can e. g. use numbered prefixes to
           specify the order in which the files are loaded.
           To prevent loops and shooting yourself in the foot in interesting
           ways the nesting is limited to a depth of 8 levels, which should be
           sufficient for most uses. Since symlinks are followed it is still
           possible to crash the daemon by looping symlinks. In our opinion
           significant stupidity should result in an appropriate amount of
           pain.
           It is no problem to have a block like "<Plugin foo>" in more than
           one file, but you cannot include files from within blocks.
       PIDFile File
           Sets where to write the PID file to. This file is overwritten when
           it exists and deleted when the program is stopped. Some init-
           scripts might override this setting using the -P command-line
           option.
       PluginDir Directory
           Path to the plugins (shared objects) of collectd.
       TypesDB File [File ...]
           Set one or more files that contain the data-set descriptions. See
           types.db(5) for a description of the format of this file.
           If this option is not specified, a default file is read. If you
           need to define custom types in addition to the types defined in the
           default file, you need to explicitly load both. In other words, if
           the TypesDB option is encountered the default behavior is disabled
           and if you need the default types you have to also explicitly load
           them.
       Interval Seconds
           Configures the interval in which to query the read plugins.
           Obviously smaller values lead to a higher system load produced by
           collectd, while higher values lead to more coarse statistics.
           Warning: You should set this once and then never touch it again. If
           you do, you will have to delete all your RRD files or know some
           serious RRDtool magic! (Assuming you're using the RRDtool or
           RRDCacheD plugin.)
       MaxReadInterval Seconds
           A read plugin doubles the interval between queries after each
           failed attempt to get data.
           This options limits the maximum value of the interval. The default
           value is 86400.
       Timeout Iterations
           Consider a value list "missing" when no update has been read or
           received for Iterations iterations. By default, collectd considers
           a value list missing when no update has been received for twice the
           update interval. Since this setting uses iterations, the maximum
           allowed time without update depends on the Interval information
           contained in each value list. This is used in the Threshold
           configuration to dispatch notifications about missing values, see
           collectd-threshold(5) for details.
       ReadThreads Num
           Number of threads to start for reading plugins. The default value
           is 5, but you may want to increase this if you have more than five
           plugins that take a long time to read. Mostly those are plugins
           that do network-IO. Setting this to a value higher than the number
           of registered read callbacks is not recommended.
       WriteThreads Num
           Number of threads to start for dispatching value lists to write
           plugins. The default value is 5, but you may want to increase this
           if you have more than five plugins that may take relatively long to
           write to.
       WriteQueueLimitHigh HighNum
       WriteQueueLimitLow LowNum
           Metrics are read by the read threads and then put into a queue to
           be handled by the write threads. If one of the write plugins is
           slow (e.g. network timeouts, I/O saturation of the disk) this queue
           will grow. In order to avoid running into memory issues in such a
           case, you can limit the size of this queue.
           By default, there is no limit and memory may grow indefinitely.
           This is most likely not an issue for clients, i.e. instances that
           only handle the local metrics. For servers it is recommended to set
           this to a non-zero value, though.
           You can set the limits using WriteQueueLimitHigh and
           WriteQueueLimitLow.  Each of them takes a numerical argument which
           is the number of metrics in the queue. If there are HighNum metrics
           in the queue, any new metrics will be dropped. If there are less
           than LowNum metrics in the queue, all new metrics will be enqueued.
           If the number of metrics currently in the queue is between LowNum
           and HighNum, the metric is dropped with a probability that is
           proportional to the number of metrics in the queue (i.e. it
           increases linearly until it reaches 100%.)
           If WriteQueueLimitHigh is set to non-zero and WriteQueueLimitLow is
           unset, the latter will default to half of WriteQueueLimitHigh.
           If you do not want to randomly drop values when the queue size is
           between LowNum and HighNum, set WriteQueueLimitHigh and
           WriteQueueLimitLow to the same value.
           Enabling the CollectInternalStats option is of great help to figure
           out the values to set WriteQueueLimitHigh and WriteQueueLimitLow
           to.
       Hostname Name
           Sets the hostname that identifies a host. If you omit this setting,
           the hostname will be determined using the gethostname(2) system
           call.
       FQDNLookup true|false
           If Hostname is determined automatically this setting controls
           whether or not the daemon should try to figure out the "fully
           qualified domain name", FQDN.  This is done using a lookup of the
           name returned by "gethostname". This option is enabled by default.
       PreCacheChain ChainName
       PostCacheChain ChainName
           Configure the name of the "pre-cache chain" and the "post-cache
           chain". Please see "FILTER CONFIGURATION" below on information on
           chains and how these setting change the daemon's behavior.
PLUGIN OPTIONS
       Some plugins may register own options. These options must be enclosed
       in a "Plugin"-Section. Which options exist depends on the plugin used.
       Some plugins require external configuration, too. The "apache plugin",
       for example, required "mod_status" to be configured in the webserver
       you're going to collect data from. These plugins are listed below as
       well, even if they don't require any configuration within collectd's
       configuration file.
       A list of all plugins and a short summary for each plugin can be found
       in the README file shipped with the sourcecode and hopefully binary
       packets as well.
   Plugin "aggregation"
       The Aggregation plugin makes it possible to aggregate several values
       into one using aggregation functions such as sum, average, min and max.
       This can be put to a wide variety of uses, e.g. average and total CPU
       statistics for your entire fleet.
       The grouping is powerful but, as with many powerful tools, may be a bit
       difficult to wrap your head around. The grouping will therefore be
       demonstrated using an example: The average and sum of the CPU usage
       across all CPUs of each host is to be calculated.
       To select all the affected values for our example, set "Plugin cpu" and
       "Type cpu". The other values are left unspecified, meaning "all
       values". The Host, Plugin, PluginInstance, Type and TypeInstance
       options work as if they were specified in the "WHERE" clause of an
       "SELECT" SQL statement.
         Plugin "cpu"
         Type "cpu"
       Although the Host, PluginInstance (CPU number, i.e. 0, 1, 2, ...)  and
       TypeInstance (idle, user, system, ...) fields are left unspecified in
       the example, the intention is to have a new value for each host / type
       instance pair. This is achieved by "grouping" the values using the
       "GroupBy" option.  It can be specified multiple times to group by more
       than one field.
         GroupBy "Host"
         GroupBy "TypeInstance"
       We do neither specify nor group by plugin instance (the CPU number), so
       all metrics that differ in the CPU number only will be aggregated. Each
       aggregation needs at least one such field, otherwise no aggregation
       would take place.
       The full example configuration looks like this:
        <Plugin "aggregation">
          <Aggregation>
            Plugin "cpu"
            Type "cpu"
            GroupBy "Host"
            GroupBy "TypeInstance"
            CalculateSum true
            CalculateAverage true
          </Aggregation>
        </Plugin>
       There are a couple of limitations you should be aware of:
       o   The Type cannot be left unspecified, because it is not reasonable
           to add apples to oranges. Also, the internal lookup structure won't
           work if you try to group by type.
       o   There must be at least one unspecified, ungrouped field. Otherwise
           nothing will be aggregated.
       As you can see in the example above, each aggregation has its own
       Aggregation block. You can have multiple aggregation blocks and
       aggregation blocks may match the same values, i.e. one value list can
       update multiple aggregations. The following options are valid inside
       Aggregation blocks:
       Host Host
       Plugin Plugin
       PluginInstance PluginInstance
       Type Type
       TypeInstance TypeInstance
           Selects the value lists to be added to this aggregation. Type must
           be a valid data set name, see types.db(5) for details.
           If the string starts with and ends with a slash ("/"), the string
           is interpreted as a regular expression. The regex flavor used are
           POSIX extended regular expressions as described in regex(7).
           Example usage:
            Host "/^db[0-9]\\.example\\.com$/"
       GroupBy Host|Plugin|PluginInstance|TypeInstance
           Group valued by the specified field. The GroupBy option may be
           repeated to group by multiple fields.
       SetHost Host
       SetPlugin Plugin
       SetPluginInstance PluginInstance
       SetTypeInstance TypeInstance
           Sets the appropriate part of the identifier to the provided string.
           The PluginInstance should include the placeholder "%{aggregation}"
           which will be replaced with the aggregation function, e.g.
           "average". Not including the placeholder will result in duplication
           warnings and/or messed up values if more than one aggregation
           function are enabled.
           The following example calculates the average usage of all "even"
           CPUs:
            <Plugin "aggregation">
              <Aggregation>
                Plugin "cpu"
                PluginInstance "/[0,2,4,6,8]$/"
                Type "cpu"
                SetPlugin "cpu"
                SetPluginInstance "even-%{aggregation}"
                GroupBy "Host"
                GroupBy "TypeInstance"
                CalculateAverage true
              </Aggregation>
            </Plugin>
           This will create the files:
           o   foo.example.com/cpu-even-average/cpu-idle
           o   foo.example.com/cpu-even-average/cpu-system
           o   foo.example.com/cpu-even-average/cpu-user
           o   ...
       CalculateNum true|false
       CalculateSum true|false
       CalculateAverage true|false
       CalculateMinimum true|false
       CalculateMaximum true|false
       CalculateStddev true|false
           Boolean options for enabling calculation of the number of value
           lists, their sum, average, minimum, maximum and / or standard
           deviation. All options are disabled by default.
   Plugin "amqp"
       The AMQP plugin can be used to communicate with other instances of
       collectd or third party applications using an AMQP 0.9.1 message
       broker.  Values are sent to or received from the broker, which handles
       routing, queueing and possibly filtering out messages.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "amqp">
          # Send values to an AMQP broker
          <Publish "some_name">
            Host "localhost"
            Host "fallback-amqp.example.com"
            Port "5672"
            VHost "/"
            User "guest"
            Password "guest"
            Exchange "amq.fanout"
        #   ExchangeType "fanout"
        #   RoutingKey "collectd"
        #   Persistent false
        #   ConnectionRetryDelay 0
        #   Format "command"
        #   StoreRates false
        #   TLSEnabled false
        #   TLSVerifyPeer true
        #   TLSVerifyHostName true
        #   TLSCACert "/path/to/ca.pem"
        #   TLSClientCert "/path/to/client-cert.pem"
        #   TLSClientKey "/path/to/client-key.pem"
        #   GraphitePrefix "collectd."
        #   GraphiteEscapeChar "_"
        #   GraphiteSeparateInstances false
        #   GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS false
        #   GraphitePreserveSeparator false
          </Publish>
          # Receive values from an AMQP broker
          <Subscribe "some_name">
            Host "localhost"
            Port "5672"
            VHost "/"
            User "guest"
            Password "guest"
            Exchange "amq.fanout"
        #   ExchangeType "fanout"
        #   Queue "queue_name"
        #   QueueDurable false
        #   QueueAutoDelete true
        #   RoutingKey "collectd.#"
        #   ConnectionRetryDelay 0
        #   TLSEnabled false
        #   TLSVerifyPeer true
        #   TLSVerifyHostName true
        #   TLSCACert "/path/to/ca.pem"
        #   TLSClientCert "/path/to/client-cert.pem"
        #   TLSClientKey "/path/to/client-key.pem"
          </Subscribe>
        </Plugin>
       The plugin's configuration consists of a number of Publish and
       Subscribe blocks, which configure sending and receiving of values
       respectively. The two blocks are very similar, so unless otherwise
       noted, an option can be used in either block. The name given in the
       blocks starting tag is only used for reporting messages, but may be
       used to support flushing of certain Publish blocks in the future.
       Host Host [Host ...]
           Hostname or IP-address of the AMQP broker. Defaults to the default
           behavior of the underlying communications library, rabbitmq-c,
           which is "localhost".
           If multiple hosts are specified, then a random one is chosen at
           each (re)connection attempt. This is useful for failover with a
           clustered broker.
       Port Port
           Service name or port number on which the AMQP broker accepts
           connections. This argument must be a string, even if the numeric
           form is used. Defaults to "5672".
       VHost VHost
           Name of the virtual host on the AMQP broker to use. Defaults to
           "/".
       User User
       Password Password
           Credentials used to authenticate to the AMQP broker. By default
           "guest"/"guest" is used.
       Exchange Exchange
           In Publish blocks, this option specifies the exchange to send
           values to.  By default, "amq.fanout" will be used.
           In Subscribe blocks this option is optional. If given, a binding
           between the given exchange and the queue is created, using the
           routing key if configured. See the Queue and RoutingKey options
           below.
       ExchangeType Type
           If given, the plugin will try to create the configured exchange
           with this type after connecting. When in a Subscribe block, the
           queue will then be bound to this exchange.
       Queue Queue (Subscribe only)
           Configures the queue name to subscribe to. If no queue name was
           configured explicitly, a unique queue name will be created by the
           broker.
       QueueDurable true|false (Subscribe only)
           Defines if the queue subscribed to is durable (saved to persistent
           storage) or transient (will disappear if the AMQP broker is
           restarted). Defaults to "false".
           This option should be used in conjunction with the Persistent
           option on the publish side.
       QueueAutoDelete true|false (Subscribe only)
           Defines if the queue subscribed to will be deleted once the last
           consumer unsubscribes. Defaults to "true".
       RoutingKey Key
           In Publish blocks, this configures the routing key to set on all
           outgoing messages. If not given, the routing key will be computed
           from the identifier of the value. The host, plugin, type and the
           two instances are concatenated together using dots as the separator
           and all containing dots replaced with slashes. For example
           "collectd.host/example/com.cpu.0.cpu.user". This makes it possible
           to receive only specific values using a "topic" exchange.
           In Subscribe blocks, configures the routing key used when creating
           a binding between an exchange and the queue. The usual wildcards
           can be used to filter messages when using a "topic" exchange. If
           you're only interested in CPU statistics, you could use the routing
           key "collectd.*.cpu.#" for example.
       Persistent true|false (Publish only)
           Selects the delivery method to use. If set to true, the persistent
           mode will be used, i.e. delivery is guaranteed. If set to false
           (the default), the transient delivery mode will be used, i.e.
           messages may be lost due to high load, overflowing queues or
           similar issues.
       ConnectionRetryDelay Delay
           When the connection to the AMQP broker is lost, defines the time in
           seconds to wait before attempting to reconnect. Defaults to 0,
           which implies collectd will attempt to reconnect at each read
           interval (in Subscribe mode) or each time values are ready for
           submission (in Publish mode).
       Format Command|JSON|Graphite (Publish only)
           Selects the format in which messages are sent to the broker. If set
           to Command (the default), values are sent as "PUTVAL" commands
           which are identical to the syntax used by the Exec and UnixSock
           plugins. In this case, the "Content-Type" header field will be set
           to "text/collectd".
           If set to JSON, the values are encoded in the JavaScript Object
           Notation, an easy and straight forward exchange format. The
           "Content-Type" header field will be set to "application/json".
           If set to Graphite, values are encoded in the Graphite format,
           which is "<metric> <value> <timestamp>\n". The "Content-Type"
           header field will be set to "text/graphite".
           A subscribing client should use the "Content-Type" header field to
           determine how to decode the values. Currently, the AMQP plugin
           itself can only decode the Command format.
       StoreRates true|false (Publish only)
           Determines whether or not "COUNTER", "DERIVE" and "ABSOLUTE" data
           sources are converted to a rate (i.e. a "GAUGE" value). If set to
           false (the default), no conversion is performed. Otherwise the
           conversion is performed using the internal value cache.
           Please note that currently this option is only used if the Format
           option has been set to JSON.
       GraphitePrefix (Publish and Format=Graphite only)
           A prefix can be added in the metric name when outputting in the
           Graphite format.  It's added before the Host name.  Metric name
           will be "<prefix><host><postfix><plugin><type><name>"
       GraphitePostfix (Publish and Format=Graphite only)
           A postfix can be added in the metric name when outputting in the
           Graphite format.  It's added after the Host name.  Metric name will
           be "<prefix><host><postfix><plugin><type><name>"
       GraphiteEscapeChar (Publish and Format=Graphite only)
           Specify a character to replace dots (.) in the host part of the
           metric name.  In Graphite metric name, dots are used as separators
           between different metric parts (host, plugin, type).  Default is
           "_" (Underscore).
       GraphiteSeparateInstances true|false
           If set to true, the plugin instance and type instance will be in
           their own path component, for example "host.cpu.0.cpu.idle". If set
           to false (the default), the plugin and plugin instance (and
           likewise the type and type instance) are put into one component,
           for example "host.cpu-0.cpu-idle".
       GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS true|false
           If set to true, append the name of the Data Source (DS) to the
           "metric" identifier. If set to false (the default), this is only
           done when there is more than one DS.
       GraphitePreserveSeparator false|true
           If set to false (the default) the "." (dot) character is replaced
           with GraphiteEscapeChar. Otherwise, if set to true, the "." (dot)
           character is preserved, i.e. passed through.
       TLSEnabled true|false
           If set to true then connect to the broker using a TLS connection.
           If set to false (the default), then a plain text connection is
           used.
           Requires rabbitmq-c >= 0.4.
       TLSVerifyPeer true|false
           If set to true (the default) then the server certificate chain is
           verified.  Setting this to false will skip verification (insecure).
           Requires rabbitmq-c >= 0.8.
       TLSVerifyHostName true|false
           If set to true (the default) then the server host name is verified.
           Setting this to false will skip verification (insecure).
           Requires rabbitmq-c >= 0.8.
       TLSCACert Path
           Path to the CA cert file in PEM format.
       TLSClientCert Path
           Path to the client certificate in PEM format.  If this is set, then
           TLSClientKey must be set as well.
       TLSClientKey Path
           Path to the client key in PEM format.  If this is set, then
           TLSClientCert must be set as well.
   Plugin "amqp1"
       The AMQP1 plugin can be used to communicate with other instances of
       collectd or third party applications using an AMQP 1.0 message
       intermediary. Metric values or notifications are sent to the messaging
       intermediary which may handle direct messaging or queue based transfer.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "amqp1">
          # Send values to an AMQP 1.0 intermediary
         <Transport "name">
           Host "localhost"
           Port "5672"
           User "guest"
           Password "guest"
           Address "collectd"
       #    RetryDelay 1
           <Instance "some_name">
               Format "command"
               PreSettle false
               Notify false
        #      StoreRates false
        #      GraphitePrefix "collectd."
        #      GraphiteEscapeChar "_"
        #      GraphiteSeparateInstances false
        #      GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS false
        #      GraphitePreserveSeparator false
           </Instance>
         </Transport>
        </Plugin>
       The plugin's configuration consists of a Transport that configures
       communications to the AMQP 1.0 messaging bus and one or more Instance
       corresponding to metric or event publishers to the messaging system.
       The address in the Transport block concatenated with the name given in
       the Instance block starting tag will be used as the send-to address for
       communications over the messaging link.
       The following options are accepted within each Transport block:
       Host Host
           Hostname or IP-address of the AMQP 1.0 intermediary. Defaults to
           the default behavior of the underlying communications library,
           libqpid-proton, which is "localhost".
       Port Port
           Service name or port number on which the AMQP 1.0 intermediary
           accepts connections. This argument must be a string, even if the
           numeric form is used. Defaults to "5672".
       User User
       Password Password
           Credentials used to authenticate to the AMQP 1.0 intermediary. By
           default "guest"/"guest" is used.
       Address Address
           This option specifies the prefix for the send-to value in the
           message.  By default, "collectd" will be used.
       RetryDelay RetryDelay
           When the AMQP1 connection is lost, defines the time in seconds to
           wait before attempting to reconnect. Defaults to 1, which implies
           attempt to reconnect at 1 second intervals.
       SendQueueLimit SendQueueLimit If there is no AMQP1 connection, the
       plugin will continue to queue messages to send, which could result in
       unbounded memory consumption. This parameter is used to limit the
       number of messages in the outbound queue to the specified value. The
       default value is 0, which disables this feature.
       The following options are accepted within each Instance block:
       Format Command|JSON|Graphite
           Selects the format in which messages are sent to the intermediary.
           If set to Command (the default), values are sent as "PUTVAL"
           commands which are identical to the syntax used by the Exec and
           UnixSock plugins. In this case, the "Content-Type" header field
           will be set to "text/collectd".
           If set to JSON, the values are encoded in the JavaScript Object
           Notation, an easy and straight forward exchange format. The
           "Content-Type" header field will be set to "application/json".
           If set to Graphite, values are encoded in the Graphite format,
           which is "<metric> <value> <timestamp>\n". The "Content-Type"
           header field will be set to "text/graphite".
           A subscribing client should use the "Content-Type" header field to
           determine how to decode the values.
       PreSettle true|false
           If set to false (the default), the plugin will wait for a message
           acknowledgement from the messaging bus before sending the next
           message. This indicates transfer of ownership to the messaging
           system. If set to true, the plugin will not wait for a message
           acknowledgement and the message may be dropped prior to transfer of
           ownership.
       Notify true|false
           If set to false (the default), the plugin will service the instance
           write call back as a value list. If set to true the plugin will
           service the instance as a write notification callback for alert
           formatting.
       StoreRates true|false
           Determines whether or not "COUNTER", "DERIVE" and "ABSOLUTE" data
           sources are converted to a rate (i.e. a "GAUGE" value). If set to
           false (the default), no conversion is performed. Otherwise the
           conversion is performed using the internal value cache.
           Please note that currently this option is only used if the Format
           option has been set to JSON.
       GraphitePrefix
           A prefix can be added in the metric name when outputting in the
           Graphite format.  It's added before the Host name.  Metric name
           will be "<prefix><host><postfix><plugin><type><name>"
       GraphitePostfix
           A postfix can be added in the metric name when outputting in the
           Graphite format.  It's added after the Host name.  Metric name will
           be "<prefix><host><postfix><plugin><type><name>"
       GraphiteEscapeChar
           Specify a character to replace dots (.) in the host part of the
           metric name.  In Graphite metric name, dots are used as separators
           between different metric parts (host, plugin, type).  Default is
           "_" (Underscore).
       GraphiteSeparateInstances true|false
           If set to true, the plugin instance and type instance will be in
           their own path component, for example "host.cpu.0.cpu.idle". If set
           to false (the default), the plugin and plugin instance (and
           likewise the type and type instance) are put into one component,
           for example "host.cpu-0.cpu-idle".
       GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS true|false
           If set to true, append the name of the Data Source (DS) to the
           "metric" identifier. If set to false (the default), this is only
           done when there is more than one DS.
       GraphitePreserveSeparator false|true
           If set to false (the default) the "." (dot) character is replaced
           with GraphiteEscapeChar. Otherwise, if set to true, the "." (dot)
           character is preserved, i.e. passed through.
   Plugin "apache"
       To configure the "apache"-plugin you first need to configure the Apache
       webserver correctly. The Apache-plugin "mod_status" needs to be loaded
       and working and the "ExtendedStatus" directive needs to be enabled. You
       can use the following snipped to base your Apache config upon:
         ExtendedStatus on
         <IfModule mod_status.c>
           <Location /mod_status>
             SetHandler server-status
           </Location>
         </IfModule>
       Since its "mod_status" module is very similar to Apache's, lighttpd is
       also supported. It introduces a new field, called "BusyServers", to
       count the number of currently connected clients. This field is also
       supported.
       The configuration of the Apache plugin consists of one or more
       "<Instance />" blocks. Each block requires one string argument as the
       instance name. For example:
        <Plugin "apache">
          <Instance "www1">
            URL "http://www1.example.com/mod_status?auto"
          </Instance>
          <Instance "www2">
            URL "http://www2.example.com/mod_status?auto"
          </Instance>
        </Plugin>
       The instance name will be used as the plugin instance. To emulate the
       old (version 4) behavior, you can use an empty string (""). In order
       for the plugin to work correctly, each instance name must be unique.
       This is not enforced by the plugin and it is your responsibility to
       ensure it.
       The following options are accepted within each Instance block:
       URL http://host/mod_status?auto
           Sets the URL of the "mod_status" output. This needs to be the
           output generated by "ExtendedStatus on" and it needs to be the
           machine readable output generated by appending the "?auto"
           argument. This option is mandatory.
       User Username
           Optional user name needed for authentication.
       Password Password
           Optional password needed for authentication.
       VerifyPeer true|false
           Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
           <http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html>; for details. Enabled by
           default.
       VerifyHost true|false
           Enable or disable peer host name verification. If enabled, the
           plugin checks if the "Common Name" or a "Subject Alternate Name"
           field of the SSL certificate matches the host name provided by the
           URL option. If this identity check fails, the connection is
           aborted. Obviously, only works when connecting to a SSL enabled
           server. Enabled by default.
       CACert File
           File that holds one or more SSL certificates. If you want to use
           HTTPS you will possibly need this option. What CA certificates come
           bundled with "libcurl" and are checked by default depends on the
           distribution you use.
       SSLCiphers list of ciphers
           Specifies which ciphers to use in the connection. The list of
           ciphers must specify valid ciphers. See
           <http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html>; for details.
       Timeout Milliseconds
           The Timeout option sets the overall timeout for HTTP requests to
           URL, in milliseconds. By default, the configured Interval is used
           to set the timeout.
   Plugin "apcups"
       Host Hostname
           Hostname of the host running apcupsd. Defaults to localhost. Please
           note that IPv6 support has been disabled unless someone can confirm
           or decline that apcupsd can handle it.
       Port Port
           TCP-Port to connect to. Defaults to 3551.
       ReportSeconds true|false
           If set to true, the time reported in the "timeleft" metric will be
           converted to seconds. This is the recommended setting. If set to
           false, the default for backwards compatibility, the time will be
           reported in minutes.
       PersistentConnection true|false
           The plugin is designed to keep the connection to apcupsd open
           between reads.  If plugin poll interval is greater than 15 seconds
           (hardcoded socket close timeout in apcupsd NIS), then this option
           is false by default.
           You can instruct the plugin to close the connection after each read
           by setting this option to false or force keeping the connection by
           setting it to true.
           If apcupsd appears to close the connection due to inactivity quite
           quickly, the plugin will try to detect this problem and switch to
           an open-read-close mode.
   Plugin "aquaero"
       This plugin collects the value of the available sensors in an Aquaero 5
       board. Aquaero 5 is a water-cooling controller board, manufactured by
       Aqua Computer GmbH <http://www.aquacomputer.de/>;, with a USB2
       connection for monitoring and configuration. The board can handle
       multiple temperature sensors, fans, water pumps and water level sensors
       and adjust the output settings such as fan voltage or power used by the
       water pump based on the available inputs using a configurable
       controller included in the board.  This plugin collects all the
       available inputs as well as some of the output values chosen by this
       controller. The plugin is based on the libaquaero5 library provided by
       aquatools-ng.
       Device DevicePath
           Device path of the Aquaero 5's USB HID (human interface device),
           usually in the form "/dev/usb/hiddevX". If this option is no set
           the plugin will try to auto-detect the Aquaero 5 USB device based
           on vendor-ID and product-ID.
   Plugin "ascent"
       This plugin collects information about an Ascent server, a free server
       for the "World of Warcraft" game. This plugin gathers the information
       by fetching the XML status page using "libcurl" and parses it using
       "libxml2".
       The configuration options are the same as for the "apache" plugin
       above:
       URL http://localhost/ascent/status/
           Sets the URL of the XML status output.
       User Username
           Optional user name needed for authentication.
       Password Password
           Optional password needed for authentication.
       VerifyPeer true|false
           Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
           <http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html>; for details. Enabled by
           default.
       VerifyHost true|false
           Enable or disable peer host name verification. If enabled, the
           plugin checks if the "Common Name" or a "Subject Alternate Name"
           field of the SSL certificate matches the host name provided by the
           URL option. If this identity check fails, the connection is
           aborted. Obviously, only works when connecting to a SSL enabled
           server. Enabled by default.
       CACert File
           File that holds one or more SSL certificates. If you want to use
           HTTPS you will possibly need this option. What CA certificates come
           bundled with "libcurl" and are checked by default depends on the
           distribution you use.
       Timeout Milliseconds
           The Timeout option sets the overall timeout for HTTP requests to
           URL, in milliseconds. By default, the configured Interval is used
           to set the timeout.
   Plugin "barometer"
       This plugin reads absolute air pressure using digital barometer sensor
       on a I2C bus. Supported sensors are:
       MPL115A2 from Freescale, see
       <http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPL115A>;.
       MPL3115 from Freescale see
       <http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPL3115A2>;.
       BMP085 from Bosch Sensortec
       The sensor type - one of the above - is detected automatically by the
       plugin and indicated in the plugin_instance (you will see subdirectory
       "barometer-mpl115" or "barometer-mpl3115", or "barometer-bmp085"). The
       order of detection is BMP085 -> MPL3115 -> MPL115A2, the first one
       found will be used (only one sensor can be used by the plugin).
       The plugin provides absolute barometric pressure, air pressure reduced
       to sea level (several possible approximations) and as an auxiliary
       value also internal sensor temperature. It uses (expects/provides)
       typical metric units - pressure in [hPa], temperature in [C], altitude
       in [m].
       It was developed and tested under Linux only. The only platform
       dependency is the standard Linux i2c-dev interface (the particular bus
       driver has to support the SM Bus command subset).
       The reduction or normalization to mean sea level pressure requires
       (depending on selected method/approximation) also altitude and
       reference to temperature sensor(s).  When multiple temperature sensors
       are configured the minimum of their values is always used (expecting
       that the warmer ones are affected by e.g. direct sun light at that
       moment).
       Synopsis:
         <Plugin "barometer">
            Device            "/dev/i2c-0";
            Oversampling      512
            PressureOffset    0.0
            TemperatureOffset 0.0
            Normalization     2
            Altitude          238.0
            TemperatureSensor "myserver/onewire-F10FCA000800/temperature"
         </Plugin>
       Device device
           The only mandatory configuration parameter.
           Device name of the I2C bus to which the sensor is connected. Note
           that typically you need to have loaded the i2c-dev module.  Using
           i2c-tools you can check/list i2c buses available on your system by:
             i2cdetect -l
           Then you can scan for devices on given bus. E.g. to scan the whole
           bus 0 use:
             i2cdetect -y -a 0
           This way you should be able to verify that the pressure sensor
           (either type) is connected and detected on address 0x60.
       Oversampling value
           Optional parameter controlling the oversampling/accuracy. Default
           value is 1 providing fastest and least accurate reading.
           For MPL115 this is the size of the averaging window. To filter out
           sensor noise a simple averaging using floating window of this
           configurable size is used. The plugin will use average of the last
           "value" measurements (value of 1 means no averaging).  Minimal size
           is 1, maximal 1024.
           For MPL3115 this is the oversampling value. The actual oversampling
           is performed by the sensor and the higher value the higher accuracy
           and longer conversion time (although nothing to worry about in the
           collectd context).  Supported values are: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64
           and 128. Any other value is adjusted by the plugin to the closest
           supported one.
           For BMP085 this is the oversampling value. The actual oversampling
           is performed by the sensor and the higher value the higher accuracy
           and longer conversion time (although nothing to worry about in the
           collectd context).  Supported values are: 1, 2, 4, 8. Any other
           value is adjusted by the plugin to the closest supported one.
       PressureOffset offset
           Optional parameter for MPL3115 only.
           You can further calibrate the sensor by supplying pressure and/or
           temperature offsets.  This is added to the measured/caclulated
           value (i.e. if the measured value is too high then use negative
           offset).  In hPa, default is 0.0.
       TemperatureOffset offset
           Optional parameter for MPL3115 only.
           You can further calibrate the sensor by supplying pressure and/or
           temperature offsets.  This is added to the measured/caclulated
           value (i.e. if the measured value is too high then use negative
           offset).  In C, default is 0.0.
       Normalization method
           Optional parameter, default value is 0.
           Normalization method - what approximation/model is used to compute
           the mean sea level pressure from the air absolute pressure.
           Supported values of the "method" (integer between from 0 to 2) are:
           0 - no conversion, absolute pressure is simply copied over. For
           this method you do not need to configure "Altitude" or
           "TemperatureSensor".
           1 - international formula for conversion , See
           <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_pressure#Altitude_atmospheric_pressure_variation>;.
           For this method you have to configure "Altitude" but do not need
           "TemperatureSensor" (uses fixed global temperature average
           instead).
           2 - formula as recommended by the Deutsche Wetterdienst (German
           Meteorological Service). See
           <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometrische_H%C3%B6henformel#Theorie>
           For this method you have to configure both  "Altitude" and
           "TemperatureSensor".
       Altitude altitude
           The altitude (in meters) of the location where you meassure the
           pressure.
       TemperatureSensor reference
           Temperature sensor(s) which should be used as a reference when
           normalizing the pressure using "Normalization" method 2.  When
           specified more sensors a minimum is found and used each time.  The
           temperature reading directly from this pressure sensor/plugin is
           typically not suitable as the pressure sensor will be probably
           inside while we want outside temperature.  The collectd reference
           name is something like
           <hostname>/<plugin_name>-<plugin_instance>/<type>-<type_instance>
           (<type_instance> is usually omitted when there is just single value
           type). Or you can figure it out from the path of the output data
           files.
   Plugin "battery"
       The battery plugin reports the remaining capacity, power and voltage of
       laptop batteries.
       ValuesPercentage false|true
           When enabled, remaining capacity is reported as a percentage, e.g.
           "42% capacity remaining". Otherwise the capacity is stored as
           reported by the battery, most likely in "Wh". This option does not
           work with all input methods, in particular when only "/proc/pmu" is
           available on an old Linux system.  Defaults to false.
       ReportDegraded false|true
           Typical laptop batteries degrade over time, meaning the capacity
           decreases with recharge cycles. The maximum charge of the previous
           charge cycle is tracked as "last full capacity" and used to
           determine that a battery is "fully charged".
           When this option is set to false, the default, the battery plugin
           will only report the remaining capacity. If the ValuesPercentage
           option is enabled, the relative remaining capacity is calculated as
           the ratio of the "remaining capacity" and the "last full capacity".
           This is what most tools, such as the status bar of desktop
           environments, also do.
           When set to true, the battery plugin will report three values:
           charged (remaining capacity), discharged (difference between "last
           full capacity" and "remaining capacity") and degraded (difference
           between "design capacity" and "last full capacity").
       QueryStateFS false|true
           When set to true, the battery plugin will only read statistics
           related to battery performance as exposed by StateFS at /run/state.
           StateFS is used in Mer-based Sailfish OS, for example.
   Plugin "bind"
       Starting with BIND 9.5.0, the most widely used DNS server software
       provides extensive statistics about queries, responses and lots of
       other information.  The bind plugin retrieves this information that's
       encoded in XML and provided via HTTP and submits the values to
       collectd.
       To use this plugin, you first need to tell BIND to make this
       information available. This is done with the "statistics-channels"
       configuration option:
        statistics-channels {
          inet localhost port 8053;
        };
       The configuration follows the grouping that can be seen when looking at
       the data with an XSLT compatible viewer, such as a modern web browser.
       It's probably a good idea to make yourself familiar with the provided
       values, so you can understand what the collected statistics actually
       mean.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "bind">
          URL "http://localhost:8053/"
          ParseTime       false
          OpCodes         true
          QTypes          true
          ServerStats     true
          ZoneMaintStats  true
          ResolverStats   false
          MemoryStats     true
          <View "_default">
            QTypes        true
            ResolverStats true
            CacheRRSets   true
            Zone "127.in-addr.arpa/IN"
          </View>
        </Plugin>
       The bind plugin accepts the following configuration options:
       URL URL
           URL from which to retrieve the XML data. If not specified,
           "http://localhost:8053/" will be used.
       ParseTime true|false
           When set to true, the time provided by BIND will be parsed and used
           to dispatch the values. When set to false, the local time source is
           queried.
           This setting is set to true by default for backwards compatibility;
           setting this to false is recommended to avoid problems with
           timezones and localization.
       OpCodes true|false
           When enabled, statistics about the "OpCodes", for example the
           number of "QUERY" packets, are collected.
           Default: Enabled.
       QTypes true|false
           When enabled, the number of incoming queries by query types (for
           example "A", "MX", "AAAA") is collected.
           Default: Enabled.
       ServerStats true|false
           Collect global server statistics, such as requests received over
           IPv4 and IPv6, successful queries, and failed updates.
           Default: Enabled.
       ZoneMaintStats true|false
           Collect zone maintenance statistics, mostly information about
           notifications (zone updates) and zone transfers.
           Default: Enabled.
       ResolverStats true|false
           Collect resolver statistics, i. e. statistics about outgoing
           requests (e. g. queries over IPv4, lame servers). Since the global
           resolver counters apparently were removed in BIND 9.5.1 and 9.6.0,
           this is disabled by default. Use the ResolverStats option within a
           View "_default" block instead for the same functionality.
           Default: Disabled.
       MemoryStats
           Collect global memory statistics.
           Default: Enabled.
       Timeout Milliseconds
           The Timeout option sets the overall timeout for HTTP requests to
           URL, in milliseconds. By default, the configured Interval is used
           to set the timeout.
       View Name
           Collect statistics about a specific "view". BIND can behave
           different, mostly depending on the source IP-address of the
           request. These different configurations are called "views". If you
           don't use this feature, you most likely are only interested in the
           "_default" view.
           Within a <View name> block, you can specify which information you
           want to collect about a view. If no View block is configured, no
           detailed view statistics will be collected.
           QTypes true|false
               If enabled, the number of outgoing queries by query type (e. g.
               "A", "MX") is collected.
               Default: Enabled.
           ResolverStats true|false
               Collect resolver statistics, i. e. statistics about outgoing
               requests (e. g. queries over IPv4, lame servers).
               Default: Enabled.
           CacheRRSets true|false
               If enabled, the number of entries ("RR sets") in the view's
               cache by query type is collected. Negative entries (queries
               which resulted in an error, for example names that do not
               exist) are reported with a leading exclamation mark, e. g.
               "!A".
               Default: Enabled.
           Zone Name
               When given, collect detailed information about the given zone
               in the view. The information collected if very similar to the
               global ServerStats information (see above).
               You can repeat this option to collect detailed information
               about multiple zones.
               By default no detailed zone information is collected.
   Plugin "buddyinfo"
       The buddyinfo plugin collects information by reading "/proc/buddyinfo".
       This file contains information about the number of available contagious
       physical pages at the moment.
       Zone ZoneName
           Zone to collect info about. Will collect all zones by default.
   Plugin "capabilities"
       The "capabilities" plugin collects selected static platform data using
       dmidecode and expose it through micro embedded webserver. The data
       returned by plugin is in json format.
       Synopsis:
         <Plugin capabilities>
           Host "localhost"
           Port "9104"
         </Plugin>
       Available configuration options for the "capabilities" plugin:
       Host Hostname
           Bind to the hostname / address Host. By default, the plugin will
           bind to the "any" address, i.e. accept packets sent to any of the
           hosts addresses.
           This option is supported only for libmicrohttpd newer than 0.9.0.
       Port Port
           Port the embedded webserver should listen on. Defaults to 9104.
   Plugin "ceph"
       The ceph plugin collects values from JSON data to be parsed by libyajl
       (<https://lloyd.github.io/yajl/>;) retrieved from ceph daemon admin
       sockets.
       A separate Daemon block must be configured for each ceph daemon to be
       monitored. The following example will read daemon statistics from four
       separate ceph daemons running on the same device (two OSDs, one MON,
       one MDS) :
         <Plugin ceph>
           LongRunAvgLatency false
           ConvertSpecialMetricTypes true
           <Daemon "osd.0">
             SocketPath "/var/run/ceph/ceph-osd.0.asok"
           </Daemon>
           <Daemon "osd.1">
             SocketPath "/var/run/ceph/ceph-osd.1.asok"
           </Daemon>
           <Daemon "mon.a">
             SocketPath "/var/run/ceph/ceph-mon.ceph1.asok"
           </Daemon>
           <Daemon "mds.a">
             SocketPath "/var/run/ceph/ceph-mds.ceph1.asok"
           </Daemon>
         </Plugin>
       The ceph plugin accepts the following configuration options:
       LongRunAvgLatency true|false
           If enabled, latency values(sum,count pairs) are calculated as the
           long run average - average since the ceph daemon was started = (sum
           / count).  When disabled, latency values are calculated as the
           average since the last collection = (sum_now - sum_last) /
           (count_now - count_last).
           Default: Disabled
       ConvertSpecialMetricTypes true|false
           If enabled, special metrics (metrics that differ in type from
           similar counters) are converted to the type of those similar
           counters. This currently only applies to filestore.journal_wr_bytes
           which is a counter for OSD daemons. The ceph schema reports this
           metric type as a sum,count pair while similar counters are treated
           as derive types. When converted, the sum is used as the counter
           value and is treated as a derive type.  When disabled, all metrics
           are treated as the types received from the ceph schema.
           Default: Enabled
       Each Daemon block must have a string argument for the plugin instance
       name.  A SocketPath is also required for each Daemon block:
       Daemon DaemonName
           Name to be used as the instance name for this daemon.
       SocketPath SocketPath
           Specifies the path to the UNIX admin socket of the ceph daemon.
   Plugin "cgroups"
       This plugin collects the CPU user/system time for each cgroup by
       reading the cpuacct.stat files in the first cpuacct-mountpoint
       (typically /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu.cpuacct on machines using systemd).
       CGroup Directory
           Select cgroup based on the name. Whether only matching cgroups are
           collected or if they are ignored is controlled by the
           IgnoreSelected option; see below.
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           Invert the selection: If set to true, all cgroups except the ones
           that match any one of the criteria are collected. By default only
           selected cgroups are collected if a selection is made. If no
           selection is configured at all, all cgroups are selected.
   Plugin "check_uptime"
       The check_uptime plugin designed to check and notify about host or
       service status based on uptime metric.
       When new metric of uptime type appears in cache, OK notification is
       sent.  When new value for metric is less than previous value, WARNING
       notification is sent about host/service restart.  When no new updates
       comes for metric and cache entry expires, then FAILURE notification is
       sent about unreachable host or service.
       By default (when no explicit configuration), plugin checks for uptime
       metric.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "check_uptime">
          Type "uptime"
          Type "my_uptime_type"
        </Plugin>
       Type Type
           Metric type to check for status/values. The type should consist
           single GAUGE data source.
   Plugin "chrony"
       The "chrony" plugin collects ntp data from a chronyd server, such as
       clock skew and per-peer stratum.
       For talking to chronyd, it mimics what the chronyc control program does
       on the wire.
       Available configuration options for the "chrony" plugin:
       Host Hostname
           Hostname of the host running chronyd. Defaults to localhost.
       Port Port
           UDP-Port to connect to. Defaults to 323.
       Timeout Timeout
           Connection timeout in seconds. Defaults to 2.
   Plugin Connectivity
       connectivity - Documentation of collectd's "connectivity plugin"
         LoadPlugin connectivity
         # ...
         <Plugin connectivity>
           Interface eth0
         </Plugin>
       The "connectivity plugin" queries interface status using netlink (man 7
       netlink) which provides information about network interfaces via the
       NETLINK_ROUTE family (man 7 rtnetlink). The plugin translates the value
       it receives to collectd's internal format and, depending on the write
       plugins you have loaded, it may be written to disk or submitted to
       another instance.  The plugin listens to interfaces enumerated within
       the plugin configuration (see below).  If no interfaces are listed,
       then the default is for all interfaces to be monitored.
       This example shows "connectivity plugin" monitoring all interfaces.
       LoadPlugin connectivity <Plugin connectivity> </Plugin>
       This example shows "connectivity plugin" monitoring 2 interfaces,
       "eth0" and "eth1".  LoadPlugin connectivity <Plugin connectivity>
         Interface eth0
         Interface eth1 </Plugin>
       This example shows "connectivity plugin" monitoring all interfaces
       except "eth1".  LoadPlugin connectivity <Plugin connectivity>
         Interface eth1
         IgnoreSelected true </Plugin>
       Interface interface_name
           interface(s) to monitor connect to.
   Plugin "conntrack"
       This plugin collects IP conntrack statistics.
       OldFiles
           Assume the conntrack_count and conntrack_max files to be found in
           /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter instead of /proc/sys/net/netfilter/.
   Plugin "cpu"
       The CPU plugin collects CPU usage metrics. By default, CPU usage is
       reported as Jiffies, using the "cpu" type. Two aggregations are
       available:
       o   Sum, per-state, over all CPUs installed in the system; and
       o   Sum, per-CPU, over all non-idle states of a CPU, creating an
           "active" state.
       The two aggregations can be combined, leading to collectd only emitting
       a single "active" metric for the entire system. As soon as one of these
       aggregations (or both) is enabled, the cpu plugin will report a
       percentage, rather than Jiffies. In addition, you can request
       individual, per-state, per-CPU metrics to be reported as percentage.
       The following configuration options are available:
       ReportByState true|false
           When set to true, the default, reports per-state metrics, e.g.
           "system", "user" and "idle".  When set to false, aggregates (sums)
           all non-idle states into one "active" metric.
       ReportByCpu true|false
           When set to true, the default, reports per-CPU (per-core) metrics.
           When set to false, instead of reporting metrics for individual
           CPUs, only a global sum of CPU states is emitted.
       ValuesPercentage false|true
           This option is only considered when both, ReportByCpu and
           ReportByState are set to true. In this case, by default, metrics
           will be reported as Jiffies. By setting this option to true, you
           can request percentage values in the un-aggregated (per-CPU, per-
           state) mode as well.
       ReportNumCpu false|true
           When set to true, reports the number of available CPUs.  Defaults
           to false.
       ReportGuestState false|true
           When set to true, reports the "guest" and "guest_nice" CPU states.
           Defaults to false.
       SubtractGuestState false|true
           This option is only considered when ReportGuestState is set to
           true.  "guest" and "guest_nice" are included in respectively "user"
           and "nice".  If set to true, "guest" will be subtracted from "user"
           and "guest_nice" will be subtracted from "nice".  Defaults to true.
   Plugin "cpufreq"
       This plugin is available on Linux and FreeBSD only.  It doesn't have
       any options.  On Linux it reads
       /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq (for the first
       CPU installed) to get the current CPU frequency. If this file does not
       exist make sure cpufreqd (<http://cpufreqd.sourceforge.net/>;) or a
       similar tool is installed and an "cpu governor" (that's a kernel
       module) is loaded.
       On Linux, if the system has the cpufreq-stats kernel module loaded,
       this plugin reports the rate of p-state (cpu frequency) transitions and
       the percentage of time spent in each p-state.
       On FreeBSD it does a sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq and submits this as instance
       0.  At this time FreeBSD only has one frequency setting for all cores.
       See the BUGS section in the FreeBSD man page for cpufreq(4) for more
       details.
       On FreeBSD the plugin checks the success of sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq and
       unregisters the plugin when this fails.  A message will be logged to
       indicate this.
   Plugin "cpusleep"
       This plugin doesn't have any options. It reads CLOCK_BOOTTIME and
       CLOCK_MONOTONIC and reports the difference between these clocks. Since
       BOOTTIME clock increments while device is suspended and MONOTONIC clock
       does not, the derivative of the difference between these clocks gives
       the relative amount of time the device has spent in suspend state. The
       recorded value is in milliseconds of sleep per seconds of wall clock.
   Plugin "csv"
       DataDir Directory
           Set the directory to store CSV-files under. Per default CSV-files
           are generated beneath the daemon's working directory, i. e. the
           BaseDir.  The special strings stdout and stderr can be used to
           write to the standard output and standard error channels,
           respectively. This, of course, only makes much sense when collectd
           is running in foreground- or non-daemon-mode.
       StoreRates true|false
           If set to true, convert counter values to rates. If set to false
           (the default) counter values are stored as is, i. e. as an
           increasing integer number.
   cURL Statistics
       All cURL-based plugins support collection of generic, request-based
       statistics. These are disabled by default and can be enabled
       selectively for each page or URL queried from the curl, curl_json, or
       curl_xml plugins. See the documentation of those plugins for specific
       information. This section describes the available metrics that can be
       configured for each plugin. All options are disabled by default.
       See <http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_getinfo.html>; for more
       details.
       TotalTime true|false
           Total time of the transfer, including name resolving, TCP connect,
           etc.
       NamelookupTime true|false
           Time it took from the start until name resolving was completed.
       ConnectTime true|false
           Time it took from the start until the connect to the remote host
           (or proxy) was completed.
       AppconnectTime true|false
           Time it took from the start until the SSL/SSH connect/handshake to
           the remote host was completed.
       PretransferTime true|false
           Time it took from the start until just before the transfer begins.
       StarttransferTime true|false
           Time it took from the start until the first byte was received.
       RedirectTime true|false
           Time it took for all redirection steps include name lookup,
           connect, pre-transfer and transfer before final transaction was
           started.
       RedirectCount true|false
           The total number of redirections that were actually followed.
       SizeUpload true|false
           The total amount of bytes that were uploaded.
       SizeDownload true|false
           The total amount of bytes that were downloaded.
       SpeedDownload true|false
           The average download speed that curl measured for the complete
           download.
       SpeedUpload true|false
           The average upload speed that curl measured for the complete
           upload.
       HeaderSize true|false
           The total size of all the headers received.
       RequestSize true|false
           The total size of the issued requests.
       ContentLengthDownload true|false
           The content-length of the download.
       ContentLengthUpload true|false
           The specified size of the upload.
       NumConnects true|false
           The number of new connections that were created to achieve the
           transfer.
   Plugin "curl"
       The curl plugin uses the libcurl (<http://curl.haxx.se/>;) to read web
       pages and the match infrastructure (the same code used by the tail
       plugin) to use regular expressions with the received data.
       The following example will read the current value of AMD stock from
       Google's finance page and dispatch the value to collectd.
         <Plugin curl>
           <Page "stock_quotes">
             Plugin "quotes"
             URL "http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AAMD"
             AddressFamily "any"
             User "foo"
             Password "bar"
             Digest false
             VerifyPeer true
             VerifyHost true
             CACert "/path/to/ca.crt"
             Header "X-Custom-Header: foobar"
             Post "foo=bar"
             MeasureResponseTime false
             MeasureResponseCode false
             <Match>
               Regex "<span +class=\"pr\"[^>]*> *([0-9]*\\.[0-9]+) *</span>"
               DSType "GaugeAverage"
               # Note: `stock_value' is not a standard type.
               Type "stock_value"
               Instance "AMD"
             </Match>
           </Page>
         </Plugin>
       In the Plugin block, there may be one or more Page blocks, each
       defining a web page and one or more "matches" to be performed on the
       returned data. The string argument to the Page block is used as plugin
       instance.
       The following options are valid within Page blocks:
       Plugin Plugin
           Use Plugin as the plugin name when submitting values.  Defaults to
           "curl".
       URL URL
           URL of the web site to retrieve. Since a regular expression will be
           used to extract information from this data, non-binary data is a
           big plus here ;)
       AddressFamily Type
           IP version to resolve URL to. Useful in cases when hostname in URL
           resolves to both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, and you are interested in
           using one of them specifically.  Use "ipv4" to enforce IPv4, "ipv6"
           to enforce IPv6, or "any" to keep the default behavior of resolving
           addresses to all IP versions your system allows.  If "libcurl" is
           compiled without IPv6 support, using "ipv6" will result in a
           warning and fallback to "any".  If "Type" cannot be parsed, a
           warning will be printed and the whole Page block will be ignored.
       User Name
           Username to use if authorization is required to read the page.
       Password Password
           Password to use if authorization is required to read the page.
       Digest true|false
           Enable HTTP digest authentication.
       VerifyPeer true|false
           Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
           <http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html>; for details. Enabled by
           default.
       VerifyHost true|false
           Enable or disable peer host name verification. If enabled, the
           plugin checks if the "Common Name" or a "Subject Alternate Name"
           field of the SSL certificate matches the host name provided by the
           URL option. If this identity check fails, the connection is
           aborted. Obviously, only works when connecting to a SSL enabled
           server. Enabled by default.
       CACert file
           File that holds one or more SSL certificates. If you want to use
           HTTPS you will possibly need this option. What CA certificates come
           bundled with "libcurl" and are checked by default depends on the
           distribution you use.
       Header Header
           A HTTP header to add to the request. Multiple headers are added if
           this option is specified more than once.
       Post Body
           Specifies that the HTTP operation should be a POST instead of a
           GET. The complete data to be posted is given as the argument.  This
           option will usually need to be accompanied by a Header option to
           set an appropriate "Content-Type" for the post body (e.g. to
           "application/x-www-form-urlencoded").
       MeasureResponseTime true|false
           Measure response time for the request. If this setting is enabled,
           Match blocks (see below) are optional. Disabled by default.
           Beware that requests will get aborted if they take too long to
           complete. Adjust Timeout accordingly if you expect
           MeasureResponseTime to report such slow requests.
           This option is similar to enabling the TotalTime statistic but it's
           measured by collectd instead of cURL.
       MeasureResponseCode true|false
           Measure response code for the request. If this setting is enabled,
           Match blocks (see below) are optional. Disabled by default.
       <Statistics>
           One Statistics block can be used to specify cURL statistics to be
           collected for each request to the remote web site. See the section
           "cURL Statistics" above for details. If this setting is enabled,
           Match blocks (see below) are optional.
       <Match>
           One or more Match blocks that define how to match information in
           the data returned by "libcurl". The "curl" plugin uses the same
           infrastructure that's used by the "tail" plugin, so please see the
           documentation of the "tail" plugin below on how matches are
           defined. If the MeasureResponseTime or MeasureResponseCode options
           are set to true, Match blocks are optional.
       Interval Interval
           Sets the interval (in seconds) in which the values will be
           collected from this URL. By default the global Interval setting
           will be used.
       Timeout Milliseconds
           The Timeout option sets the overall timeout for HTTP requests to
           URL, in milliseconds. By default, the configured Interval is used
           to set the timeout. Prior to version 5.5.0, there was no timeout
           and requests could hang indefinitely. This legacy behaviour can be
           achieved by setting the value of Timeout to 0.
           If Timeout is 0 or bigger than the Interval, keep in mind that each
           slow network connection will stall one read thread. Adjust the
           ReadThreads global setting accordingly to prevent this from
           blocking other plugins.
   Plugin "curl_json"
       The curl_json plugin collects values from JSON data to be parsed by
       libyajl (<https://lloyd.github.io/yajl/>;) retrieved via either libcurl
       (<http://curl.haxx.se/>;) or read directly from a unix socket. The
       former can be used, for example, to collect values from CouchDB
       documents (which are stored JSON notation), and the latter to collect
       values from a uWSGI stats socket.
       The following example will collect several values from the built-in
       "_stats" runtime statistics module of CouchDB
       (<http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Runtime_Statistics>;).
         <Plugin curl_json>
           <URL "http://localhost:5984/_stats">
             AddressFamily "any"
             Instance "httpd"
             <Key "httpd/requests/count">
               Type "http_requests"
             </Key>
             <Key "httpd_request_methods/*/count">
               Type "http_request_methods"
             </Key>
             <Key "httpd_status_codes/*/count">
               Type "http_response_codes"
             </Key>
           </URL>
         </Plugin>
       This example will collect data directly from a uWSGI "Stats Server"
       socket.
         <Plugin curl_json>
           <Sock "/var/run/uwsgi.stats.sock">
             Instance "uwsgi"
             <Key "workers/*/requests">
               Type "http_requests"
             </Key>
             <Key "workers/*/apps/*/requests">
               Type "http_requests"
             </Key>
           </Sock>
         </Plugin>
       In the Plugin block, there may be one or more URL blocks, each defining
       a URL to be fetched via HTTP (using libcurl) or Sock blocks defining a
       unix socket to read JSON from directly.  Each of these blocks may have
       one or more Key blocks.
       The Key string argument must be in a path format. Each component is
       used to match the key from a JSON map or the index of an JSON array. If
       a path component of a Key is a * wildcard, the values for all map keys
       or array indices will be collectd.
       The following options are valid within URL blocks:
       AddressFamily Type
           IP version to resolve URL to. Useful in cases when hostname in URL
           resolves to both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, and you are interested in
           using one of them specifically.  Use "ipv4" to enforce IPv4, "ipv6"
           to enforce IPv6, or "any" to keep the default behavior of resolving
           addresses to all IP versions your system allows.  If "libcurl" is
           compiled without IPv6 support, using "ipv6" will result in a
           warning and fallback to "any".  If "Type" cannot be parsed, a
           warning will be printed and the whole URL block will be ignored.
       Host Name
           Use Name as the host name when submitting values. Defaults to the
           global host name setting.
       Plugin Plugin
           Use Plugin as the plugin name when submitting values.  Defaults to
           "curl_json".
       Instance Instance
           Sets the plugin instance to Instance.
       Interval Interval
           Sets the interval (in seconds) in which the values will be
           collected from this URL. By default the global Interval setting
           will be used.
       User Name
       Password Password
       Digest true|false
       VerifyPeer true|false
       VerifyHost true|false
       CACert file
       Header Header
       Post Body
       Timeout Milliseconds
           These options behave exactly equivalent to the appropriate options
           of the cURL plugin. Please see there for a detailed description.
       <Statistics>
           One Statistics block can be used to specify cURL statistics to be
           collected for each request to the remote URL. See the section "cURL
           Statistics" above for details.
       The following options are valid within Key blocks:
       Type Type
           Sets the type used to dispatch the values to the daemon. Detailed
           information about types and their configuration can be found in
           types.db(5). This option is mandatory.
       Instance Instance
           Type-instance to use. Defaults to the current map key or current
           string array element value.
   Plugin "curl_jolokia"
       The curl_jolokia plugin collects values from MBeanServevr - servlet
       engines equipped with the jolokia (<https://jolokia.org>;) MBean. It
       sends a pre-configured JSON-Postbody to the servlet via HTTP commanding
       the jolokia Bean to reply with a singe JSON equipped with all JMX
       counters requested.  By reducing TCP roundtrips in comparison to
       conventional JMX clients that query one value via tcp at a time, it can
       return hundrets of values in one roundtrip.  Moreof - no java binding
       is required in collectd to do so.
       It uses libyajl (<https://lloyd.github.io/yajl/>;) to parse the Jolokia
       JSON reply retrieved via libcurl (<http://curl.haxx.se/>;)
        <Plugin curl_jolokia>
          <URL "http://10.10.10.10:7101/jolokia-war-1.2.0/?ignoreErrors=true&canonicalNaming=false";>
            Host "_APPPERF_JMX"
            User "webloginname"
            Password "passvoid"
            Post <JOLOKIA json post data>
          <BeanName "PS_Scavenge">
               MBean "java.lang:name=PS Scavenge,type=GarbageCollector"
               BeanNameSpace "java_lang"
               <AttributeName "collectiontime" >
                      Attribute "CollectionTime"
                      type "gauge"
               </AttributeName>
               <AttributeName "collectioncount" >
                      Attribute "CollectionCount"
                      type "gauge"
               </AttributeName>
          </BeanName>
         </Plugin>
       The plugin is intended to be written in a simple manner. Thus it
       doesn't try to solve the task of generating the jolokia post data, or
       automatically map the values, but rather leans on a verbose config
       containing the prepared flat JSON post data and a config section per
       gauge transformed (as one sample shown above). However, Jolokia can
       output all available gauges, and we have a python script to filter
       them, and generate a configuration for you:
         jolokia_2_collectcfg.py
       it can gather all interesting gauges, write a simple one value per line
       config for itself and subsequent calls.  You can remove lines from this
       file manually, or create filter lists.  You then use the script to
       generate a collectd config.  The script can then inspect data files
       from some testruns, and remove all gauges, that don't contain any
       movement.
       The base config looks like this:
       The following options are valid within URL blocks:
       Host Name
           Use Name as the host name when submitting values. Defaults to the
           global host name setting.
       Plugin Plugin
           Use Plugin as the plugin name when submitting values.  Defaults to
           "curl_jolokia".
       Instance Instance
           Sets the plugin instance to Instance.
       Interval Interval
           Sets the interval (in seconds) in which the values will be
           collected from this URL. By default the global Interval setting
           will be used.
       User Name
       Password Password
       Digest true|false
       VerifyPeer true|false
       VerifyHost true|false
       CACert file
       Header Header
       Post Body
       Timeout Milliseconds
           These options behave exactly equivalent to the appropriate options
           of the cURL plugin. Please see there for a detailed description.
       <BeanName>
           One BeanName block configures the translation of the gauges of one
           bean to their respective collectd names, where BeanName sets the
           main name.
       MBean MBean
           The name of the Bean on the server
       BeanNameSpace BeanNameSpace
           The name space the Bean resides under
           AttributeName AttributeName
               A bean can contain several Attributes with gauges. Each one can
               be matched by a AttributeName section or be ignored.
           Attribute Attribute
               How should this attribute be called under the BeanName in the
               collectd hierarchy?
           Type Type
               Sets the type used to dispatch the values to the daemon.
               Detailed information about types and their configuration can be
               found in types.db(5). This option is mandatory.
   Plugin "curl_xml"
       The curl_xml plugin uses libcurl (<http://curl.haxx.se/>;) and libxml2
       (<http://xmlsoft.org/>;) to retrieve XML data via cURL.
        <Plugin "curl_xml">
          <URL "http://localhost/stats.xml">
            AddressFamily "any"
            Host "my_host"
            #Plugin "curl_xml"
            Instance "some_instance"
            User "collectd"
            Password "thaiNg0I"
            VerifyPeer true
            VerifyHost true
            CACert "/path/to/ca.crt"
            Header "X-Custom-Header: foobar"
            Post "foo=bar"
            <XPath "table[@id=\"magic_level\"]/tr">
              Type "magic_level"
              #InstancePrefix "prefix-"
              InstanceFrom "td[1]"
              #PluginInstanceFrom "td[1]"
              ValuesFrom "td[2]/span[@class=\"level\"]"
            </XPath>
          </URL>
        </Plugin>
       In the Plugin block, there may be one or more URL blocks, each defining
       a URL to be fetched using libcurl. Within each URL block there are
       options which specify the connection parameters, for example
       authentication information, and one or more XPath blocks.
       Each XPath block specifies how to get one type of information. The
       string argument must be a valid XPath expression which returns a list
       of "base elements". One value is dispatched for each "base element".
       The type instance and values are looked up using further XPath
       expressions that should be relative to the base element.
       Within the URL block the following options are accepted:
       AddressFamily Type
           IP version to resolve URL to. Useful in cases when hostname in URL
           resolves to both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, and you are interested in
           using one of them specifically.  Use "ipv4" to enforce IPv4, "ipv6"
           to enforce IPv6, or "any" to keep the default behavior of resolving
           addresses to all IP versions your system allows.  If "libcurl" is
           compiled without IPv6 support, using "ipv6" will result in a
           warning and fallback to "any".  If "Type" cannot be parsed, a
           warning will be printed and the whole URL block will be ignored.
       Host Name
           Use Name as the host name when submitting values. Defaults to the
           global host name setting.
       Plugin Plugin
           Use Plugin as the plugin name when submitting values.  Defaults to
           'curl_xml'.
       Instance Instance
           Use Instance as the plugin instance when submitting values.  May be
           overridden by PluginInstanceFrom option inside XPath blocks.
           Defaults to an empty string (no plugin instance).
       Interval Interval
           Sets the interval (in seconds) in which the values will be
           collected from this URL. By default the global Interval setting
           will be used.
       Namespace Prefix URL
           If an XPath expression references namespaces, they must be
           specified with this option. Prefix is the "namespace prefix" used
           in the XML document.  URL is the "namespace name", an URI reference
           uniquely identifying the namespace. The option can be repeated to
           register multiple namespaces.
           Examples:
             Namespace "s" "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
             Namespace "m" "http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
       User User
       Password Password
       Digest true|false
       VerifyPeer true|false
       VerifyHost true|false
       CACert CA Cert File
       Header Header
       Post Body
       Timeout Milliseconds
           These options behave exactly equivalent to the appropriate options
           of the cURL plugin. Please see there for a detailed description.
       <Statistics>
           One Statistics block can be used to specify cURL statistics to be
           collected for each request to the remote URL. See the section "cURL
           Statistics" above for details.
       <XPath XPath-expression>
           Within each URL block, there must be one or more XPath blocks. Each
           XPath block specifies how to get one type of information. The
           string argument must be a valid XPath expression which returns a
           list of "base elements". One value is dispatched for each "base
           element".
           Within the XPath block the following options are accepted:
           Type Type
               Specifies the Type used for submitting patches. This determines
               the number of values that are required / expected and whether
               the strings are parsed as signed or unsigned integer or as
               double values. See types.db(5) for details.  This option is
               required.
           InstancePrefix InstancePrefix
               Prefix the type instance with InstancePrefix. The values are
               simply concatenated together without any separator.  This
               option is optional.
           InstanceFrom InstanceFrom
               Specifies a XPath expression to use for determining the type
               instance. The XPath expression must return exactly one element.
               The element's value is then used as type instance, possibly
               prefixed with InstancePrefix (see above).
           PluginInstanceFrom PluginInstanceFrom
               Specifies a XPath expression to use for determining the plugin
               instance. The XPath expression must return exactly one element.
               The element's value is then used as plugin instance.
           If the "base XPath expression" (the argument to the XPath block)
           returns exactly one argument, then InstanceFrom and
           PluginInstanceFrom may be omitted.  Otherwise, at least one of
           InstanceFrom or PluginInstanceFrom is required.
           ValuesFrom ValuesFrom [ValuesFrom ...]
               Specifies one or more XPath expression to use for reading the
               values. The number of XPath expressions must match the number
               of data sources in the type specified with Type (see above).
               Each XPath expression must return exactly one element. The
               element's value is then parsed as a number and used as value
               for the appropriate value in the value list dispatched to the
               daemon.  This option is required.
   Plugin "dbi"
       This plugin uses the dbi library (<http://libdbi.sourceforge.net/>;) to
       connect to various databases, execute SQL statements and read back the
       results. dbi is an acronym for "database interface" in case you were
       wondering about the name. You can configure how each column is to be
       interpreted and the plugin will generate one or more data sets from
       each row returned according to these rules.
       Because the plugin is very generic, the configuration is a little more
       complex than those of other plugins. It usually looks something like
       this:
         <Plugin dbi>
           <Query "out_of_stock">
             Statement "SELECT category, COUNT(*) AS value FROM products WHERE in_stock = 0 GROUP BY category"
             # Use with MySQL 5.0.0 or later
             MinVersion 50000
             <Result>
               Type "gauge"
               InstancePrefix "out_of_stock"
               InstancesFrom "category"
               ValuesFrom "value"
             </Result>
           </Query>
           <Database "product_information">
             #Plugin "warehouse"
             Driver "mysql"
             Interval 120
             DriverOption "host" "localhost"
             DriverOption "username" "collectd"
             DriverOption "password" "aZo6daiw"
             DriverOption "dbname" "prod_info"
             SelectDB "prod_info"
             Query "out_of_stock"
           </Database>
         </Plugin>
       The configuration above defines one query with one result and one
       database. The query is then linked to the database with the Query
       option within the <Database> block. You can have any number of queries
       and databases and you can also use the Include statement to split up
       the configuration file in multiple, smaller files. However, the <Query>
       block must precede the <Database> blocks, because the file is
       interpreted from top to bottom!
       The following is a complete list of options:
       Query blocks
       Query blocks define SQL statements and how the returned data should be
       interpreted. They are identified by the name that is given in the
       opening line of the block. Thus the name needs to be unique. Other than
       that, the name is not used in collectd.
       In each Query block, there is one or more Result blocks. Result blocks
       define which column holds which value or instance information. You can
       use multiple Result blocks to create multiple values from one returned
       row. This is especially useful, when queries take a long time and
       sending almost the same query again and again is not desirable.
       Example:
         <Query "environment">
           Statement "select station, temperature, humidity from environment"
           <Result>
             Type "temperature"
             # InstancePrefix "foo"
             InstancesFrom "station"
             ValuesFrom "temperature"
           </Result>
           <Result>
             Type "humidity"
             InstancesFrom "station"
             ValuesFrom "humidity"
           </Result>
         </Query>
       The following options are accepted:
       Statement SQL
           Sets the statement that should be executed on the server. This is
           not interpreted by collectd, but simply passed to the database
           server. Therefore, the SQL dialect that's used depends on the
           server collectd is connected to.
           The query has to return at least two columns, one for the instance
           and one value. You cannot omit the instance, even if the statement
           is guaranteed to always return exactly one line. In that case, you
           can usually specify something like this:
             Statement "SELECT \"instance\", COUNT(*) AS value FROM table"
           (That works with MySQL but may not be valid SQL according to the
           spec. If you use a more strict database server, you may have to
           select from a dummy table or something.)
           Please note that some databases, for example Oracle, will fail if
           you include a semicolon at the end of the statement.
       MinVersion Version
       MaxVersion Value
           Only use this query for the specified database version. You can use
           these options to provide multiple queries with the same name but
           with a slightly different syntax. The plugin will use only those
           queries, where the specified minimum and maximum versions fit the
           version of the database in use.
           The database version is determined by
           "dbi_conn_get_engine_version", see the libdbi documentation
           <http://libdbi.sourceforge.net/docs/programmers-guide/reference-
           conn.html#DBI-CONN-GET-ENGINE-VERSION> for details. Basically, each
           part of the version is assumed to be in the range from 00 to 99 and
           all dots are removed. So version "4.1.2" becomes "40102", version
           "5.0.42" becomes "50042".
           Warning: The plugin will use all matching queries, so if you
           specify multiple queries with the same name and overlapping ranges,
           weird stuff will happen. Don't to it! A valid example would be
           something along these lines:
             MinVersion 40000
             MaxVersion 49999
             ...
             MinVersion 50000
             MaxVersion 50099
             ...
             MinVersion 50100
             # No maximum
           In the above example, there are three ranges that don't overlap.
           The last one goes from version "5.1.0" to infinity, meaning "all
           later versions". Versions before "4.0.0" are not specified.
       Type Type
           The type that's used for each line returned. See types.db(5) for
           more details on how types are defined. In short: A type is a
           predefined layout of data and the number of values and type of
           values has to match the type definition.
           If you specify "temperature" here, you need exactly one gauge
           column. If you specify "if_octets", you will need two counter
           columns. See the ValuesFrom setting below.
           There must be exactly one Type option inside each Result block.
       InstancePrefix prefix
           Prepends prefix to the type instance. If InstancesFrom (see below)
           is not given, the string is simply copied. If InstancesFrom is
           given, prefix and all strings returned in the appropriate columns
           are concatenated together, separated by dashes ("-").
       InstancesFrom column0 [column1 ...]
           Specifies the columns whose values will be used to create the
           "type-instance" for each row. If you specify more than one column,
           the value of all columns will be joined together with dashes ("-")
           as separation characters.
           The plugin itself does not check whether or not all built instances
           are different. It's your responsibility to assure that each is
           unique. This is especially true, if you do not specify
           InstancesFrom: You have to make sure that only one row is returned
           in this case.
           If neither InstancePrefix nor InstancesFrom is given, the type-
           instance will be empty.
       ValuesFrom column0 [column1 ...]
           Names the columns whose content is used as the actual data for the
           data sets that are dispatched to the daemon. How many such columns
           you need is determined by the Type setting above. If you specify
           too many or not enough columns, the plugin will complain about that
           and no data will be submitted to the daemon.
           The actual data type in the columns is not that important. The
           plugin will automatically cast the values to the right type if it
           know how to do that. So it should be able to handle integer an
           floating point types, as well as strings (if they include a number
           at the beginning).
           There must be at least one ValuesFrom option inside each Result
           block.
       MetadataFrom [column0 column1 ...]
           Names the columns whose content is used as metadata for the data
           sets that are dispatched to the daemon.
           The actual data type in the columns is not that important. The
           plugin will automatically cast the values to the right type if it
           know how to do that. So it should be able to handle integer an
           floating point types, as well as strings (if they include a number
           at the beginning).
       Database blocks
       Database blocks define a connection to a database and which queries
       should be sent to that database. Since the used "dbi" library can
       handle a wide variety of databases, the configuration is very generic.
       If in doubt, refer to libdbi's documentation - we stick as close to the
       terminology used there.
       Each database needs a "name" as string argument in the starting tag of
       the block. This name will be used as "PluginInstance" in the values
       submitted to the daemon. Other than that, that name is not used.
       Plugin Plugin
           Use Plugin as the plugin name when submitting query results from
           this Database. Defaults to "dbi".
       Interval Interval
           Sets the interval (in seconds) in which the values will be
           collected from this database. By default the global Interval
           setting will be used.
       Driver Driver
           Specifies the driver to use to connect to the database. In many
           cases those drivers are named after the database they can connect
           to, but this is not a technical necessity. These drivers are
           sometimes referred to as "DBD", DataBase Driver, and some
           distributions ship them in separate packages. Drivers for the "dbi"
           library are developed by the libdbi-drivers project at
           <http://libdbi-drivers.sourceforge.net/>;.
           You need to give the driver name as expected by the "dbi" library
           here. You should be able to find that in the documentation for each
           driver. If you mistype the driver name, the plugin will dump a list
           of all known driver names to the log.
       DriverOption Key Value
           Sets driver-specific options. What option a driver supports can be
           found in the documentation for each driver, somewhere at
           <http://libdbi-drivers.sourceforge.net/>;. However, the options
           "host", "username", "password", and "dbname" seem to be de facto
           standards.
           DBDs can register two types of options: String options and numeric
           options. The plugin will use the "dbi_conn_set_option" function
           when the configuration provides a string and the
           "dbi_conn_require_option_numeric" function when the configuration
           provides a number. So these two lines will actually result in
           different calls being used:
             DriverOption "Port" 1234      # numeric
             DriverOption "Port" "1234"    # string
           Unfortunately, drivers are not too keen to report errors when an
           unknown option is passed to them, so invalid settings here may go
           unnoticed. This is not the plugin's fault, it will report errors if
           it gets them from the library / the driver. If a driver complains
           about an option, the plugin will dump a complete list of all
           options understood by that driver to the log. There is no way to
           programmatically find out if an option expects a string or a
           numeric argument, so you will have to refer to the appropriate
           DBD's documentation to find this out. Sorry.
       SelectDB Database
           In some cases, the database name you connect with is not the
           database name you want to use for querying data. If this option is
           set, the plugin will "select" (switch to) that database after the
           connection is established.
       Query QueryName
           Associates the query named QueryName with this database connection.
           The query needs to be defined before this statement, i. e. all
           query blocks you want to refer to must be placed above the database
           block you want to refer to them from.
       Host Hostname
           Sets the host field of value lists to Hostname when dispatching
           values. Defaults to the global hostname setting.
   Plugin "dcpmm"
       The dcpmm plugin will collect Intel(R) Optane(TM) DC Persistent Memory
       related performance statistics.  The plugin requires root privileges to
       perform the statistics collection.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "dcpmm">
          Interval 10.0
          CollectHealth false
          CollectPerfMetrics true
          EnableDispatchAll false
        </Plugin>
       Interval time in seconds
           Sets the Interval (in seconds) in which the values will be
           collected. Defaults to "global Interval" value.  This will override
           the global Interval for dcpmm plugin. None of the other plugins
           will be affected.
       CollectHealth true|false
           Collects health information. CollectHealth and CollectPerfMetrics
           cannot be true at the same time. Defaults to "false".
           The health information metrics are the following:
             health_status              Overall health summary (0: normal | 1:
           non-critical | 2: critical | 3: fatal).
             lifespan_remaining         The moduleXs remaining life as a
           percentage value of factory expected life span.
             lifespan_used              The moduleXs used life as a percentage
           value of factory expected life span.
             power_on_time              The lifetime the DIMM has been powered
           on in seconds.
             uptime                     The current uptime of the DIMM for the
           current power cycle in seconds.
             last_shutdown_time         The time the system was last shutdown.
           The time is represented in epoch (seconds).
             media_temperature          The mediaXs current temperature in
           degree Celsius.
             controller_temperature     The controllerXs current temperature
           in degree Celsius.
             max_media_temperature      The mediaXs the highest temperature
           reported in degree Celsius.
             max_controller_temperature The controllerXs highest temperature
           reported in degree Celsius.
             tsc_cycles                 The number of tsc cycles during each
           interval.
             epoch                      The timestamp in seconds at which the
           metrics are collected from DCPMM DIMMs.
       CollectPerfMetrics true|false
           Collects memory performance metrics. CollectHealth and
           CollectPerfMetrics cannot be true at the same time. Defaults to
           "true".
           The memory performance metrics are the following:
             total_bytes_read    Number of bytes transacted by the read
           operations.
             total_bytes_written Number of bytes transacted by the write
           operations.
             read_64B_ops_rcvd   Number of read operations performed to the
           physical media in 64 bytes granularity.
             write_64B_ops_rcvd  Number of write operations performed to the
           physical media in 64 bytes granularity.
             media_read_ops      Number of read operations performed to the
           physical media.
             media_write_ops     Number of write operations performed to the
           physical media.
             host_reads          Number of read operations received from the
           CPU (memory controller).
             host_writes         Number of write operations received from the
           CPU (memory controller).
             read_hit_ratio      Measures the efficiency of the buffer in the
           read path. Range of 0.0 - 1.0.
             write_hit_ratio     Measures the efficiency of the buffer in the
           write path. Range of 0.0 - 1.0.
             tsc_cycles          The number of tsc cycles during each
           interval.
             epoch               The timestamp in seconds at which the metrics
           are collected from DCPMM DIMMs.
       EnableDispatchAll false
           This parameter helps to seamlessly enable simultaneous health and
           memory perf metrics collection in future.  This is unused at the
           moment and must always be false.
   Plugin "df"
       Device Device
           Select partitions based on the devicename.
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       MountPoint Directory
           Select partitions based on the mountpoint.
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       FSType FSType
           Select partitions based on the filesystem type.
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           Invert the selection: If set to true, all partitions except the
           ones that match any one of the criteria are collected. By default
           only selected partitions are collected if a selection is made. If
           no selection is configured at all, all partitions are selected.
       LogOnce false|false
           Only log stat() errors once.
       ReportByDevice true|false
           Report using the device name rather than the mountpoint. i.e. with
           this false, (the default), it will report a disk as "root", but
           with it true, it will be "sda1" (or whichever).
       ReportInodes true|false
           Enables or disables reporting of free, reserved and used inodes.
           Defaults to inode collection being disabled.
           Enable this option if inodes are a scarce resource for you, usually
           because many small files are stored on the disk. This is a usual
           scenario for mail transfer agents and web caches.
       ValuesAbsolute true|false
           Enables or disables reporting of free and used disk space in
           1K-blocks.  Defaults to true.
       ValuesPercentage false|true
           Enables or disables reporting of free and used disk space in
           percentage.  Defaults to false.
           This is useful for deploying collectd on the cloud, where machines
           with different disk size may exist. Then it is more practical to
           configure thresholds based on relative disk size.
   Plugin "disk"
       The "disk" plugin collects information about the usage of physical
       disks and logical disks (partitions). Values collected are the number
       of octets written to and read from a disk or partition, the number of
       read/write operations issued to the disk and a rather complex "time" it
       took for these commands to be issued.
       Using the following two options you can ignore some disks or configure
       the collection only of specific disks.
       Disk Name
           Select the disk Name. Whether it is collected or ignored depends on
           the IgnoreSelected setting, see below. As with other plugins that
           use the daemon's ignorelist functionality, a string that starts and
           ends with a slash is interpreted as a regular expression. Examples:
             Disk "sdd"
             Disk "/hda[34]/"
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           Sets whether selected disks, i. e. the ones matches by any of the
           Disk statements, are ignored or if all other disks are ignored. The
           behavior (hopefully) is intuitive: If no Disk option is configured,
           all disks are collected. If at least one Disk option is given and
           no IgnoreSelected or set to false, only matching disks will be
           collected. If IgnoreSelected is set to true, all disks are
           collected except the ones matched.
       UseBSDName true|false
           Whether to use the device's "BSD Name", on Mac OS X, instead of the
           default major/minor numbers. Requires collectd to be built with
           Apple's IOKitLib support.
       UdevNameAttr Attribute
           Attempt to override disk instance name with the value of a
           specified udev attribute when built with libudev.  If the attribute
           is not defined for the given device, the default name is used.
           Example:
             UdevNameAttr "DM_NAME"
           Please note that using an attribute that does not differentiate
           between the whole disk and its particular partitions (like
           ID_SERIAL) will result in data about the whole disk and each
           partition being mixed together incorrectly.  In this case, you can
           use ID_COLLECTD attribute that is provided by
           contrib/99-storage-collectd.rules udev rule file instead.
   Plugin "dns"
       Interface Interface
           The dns plugin uses libpcap to capture dns traffic and analyzes it.
           This option sets the interface that should be used. If this option
           is not set, or set to "any", the plugin will try to get packets
           from all interfaces. This may not work on certain platforms, such
           as Mac OS X.
       IgnoreSource IP-address
           Ignore packets that originate from this address.
       SelectNumericQueryTypes true|false
           Enabled by default, collects unknown (and thus presented as numeric
           only) query types.
   Plugin "dpdkevents"
       The dpdkevents plugin collects events from DPDK such as link status of
       network ports and Keep Alive status of DPDK logical cores.  In order to
       get Keep Alive events following requirements must be met: - DPDK >=
       16.07 - support for Keep Alive implemented in DPDK application. More
       details can be found here:
       http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/keep_alive.html
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "dpdkevents">
          <EAL>
            Coremask "0x1"
            MemoryChannels "4"
            FilePrefix "rte"
          </EAL>
          <Event "link_status">
            SendEventsOnUpdate true
            EnabledPortMask 0xffff
            PortName "interface1"
            PortName "interface2"
            SendNotification false
          </Event>
          <Event "keep_alive">
            SendEventsOnUpdate true
            LCoreMask "0xf"
            KeepAliveShmName "/dpdk_keepalive_shm_name"
            SendNotification false
          </Event>
        </Plugin>
       Options:
       The EAL block
       Coremask Mask
       Memorychannels Channels
           Number of memory channels per processor socket.
       FilePrefix File
           The prefix text used for hugepage filenames. The filename will be
           set to /var/run/.<prefix>_config where prefix is what is passed in
           by the user.
       The Event block
       The Event block defines configuration for specific event. It accepts a
       single argument which specifies the name of the event.
       Link Status event
       SendEventOnUpdate true|false
           If set to true link status value will be dispatched only when it is
           different from previously read value. This is an optional argument
           - default value is true.
       EnabledPortMask Mask
           A hexidecimal bit mask of the DPDK ports which should be enabled. A
           mask of 0x0 means that all ports will be disabled. A bitmask of all
           F's means that all ports will be enabled. This is an optional
           argument - by default all ports are enabled.
       PortName Name
           A string containing an optional name for the enabled DPDK ports.
           Each PortName option should contain only one port name; specify as
           many PortName options as desired. Default naming convention will be
           used if PortName is blank. If there are less PortName options than
           there are enabled ports, the default naming convention will be used
           for the additional ports.
       SendNotification true|false
           If set to true, link status notifications are sent, instead of link
           status being collected as a statistic. This is an optional argument
           - default value is false.
       Keep Alive event
       SendEventOnUpdate true|false
           If set to true keep alive value will be dispatched only when it is
           different from previously read value. This is an optional argument
           - default value is true.
       LCoreMask Mask
           An hexadecimal bit mask of the logical cores to monitor keep alive
           state.
       KeepAliveShmName Name
           Shared memory name identifier that is used by secondary process to
           monitor the keep alive cores state.
       SendNotification true|false
           If set to true, keep alive notifications are sent, instead of keep
           alive information being collected as a statistic. This is an
           optional argument - default value is false.
   Plugin "dpdkstat"
       The dpdkstat plugin collects information about DPDK interfaces using
       the extended NIC stats API in DPDK.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "dpdkstat">
          <EAL>
            Coremask "0x4"
            MemoryChannels "4"
            FilePrefix "rte"
            SocketMemory "1024"
            LogLevel "7"
            RteDriverLibPath "/usr/lib/dpdk-pmd"
          </EAL>
          SharedMemObj "dpdk_collectd_stats_0"
          EnabledPortMask 0xffff
          PortName "interface1"
          PortName "interface2"
        </Plugin>
       Options:
       The EAL block
       Coremask Mask
           A string containing an hexadecimal bit mask of the cores to run on.
           Note that core numbering can change between platforms and should be
           determined beforehand.
       Memorychannels Channels
           A string containing a number of memory channels per processor
           socket.
       FilePrefix File
           The prefix text used for hugepage filenames. The filename will be
           set to /var/run/.<prefix>_config where prefix is what is passed in
           by the user.
       SocketMemory MB
           A string containing amount of Memory to allocate from hugepages on
           specific sockets in MB. This is an optional value.
       LogLevel LogLevel_number
           A string containing log level number. This parameter is optional.
           If parameter is not present then default value "7" - (INFO) is
           used.  Value "8" - (DEBUG) can be set to enable debug traces.
       RteDriverLibPath Path
           A string containing path to shared pmd driver lib or path to
           directory, where shared pmd driver libs are available. This
           parameter is optional.  This parameter enable loading of shared pmd
           driver libs from defined path.  E.g.:
           "/usr/lib/dpdk-pmd/librte_pmd_i40e.so" or    "/usr/lib/dpdk-pmd"
       SharedMemObj Mask
          A string containing the name of the shared memory object that should
          be used to share stats from the DPDK secondary process to the
          collectd dpdkstat plugin.  Defaults to dpdk_collectd_stats if no
          other value is configured.
       EnabledPortMask Mask
          A hexidecimal bit mask of the DPDK ports which should be enabled. A
          mask of 0x0 means that all ports will be disabled. A bitmask of all
          Fs means that all ports will be enabled. This is an optional
          argument - default is all ports enabled.
       PortName Name
          A string containing an optional name for the enabled DPDK ports.
          Each PortName option should contain only one port name; specify as
          many PortName options as desired. Default naming convention will be
          used if PortName is blank. If there are less PortName options than
          there are enabled ports, the default naming convention will be used
          for the additional ports.
   Plugin "dpdk_telemetry"
       The  dpdk_telemetry  plugin collects DPDK ethernet device metrics via
       dpdk_telemetry library.
       The plugin retrieves metrics from a DPDK packet forwarding application
       by sending the JSON formatted message via a UNIX domain socket.  The
       DPDK telemetry component will respond with a JSON formatted reply,
       delivering the requested metrics. The plugin parses the JSON data, and
       publishes the metric values to collectd for further use.
       Synopsis:
         <Plugin dpdk_telemetry>
           ClientSocketPath "/var/run/.client"
           DpdkSocketPath "/var/run/dpdk/rte/telemetry"
         </Plugin>
       Options:
       ClientSocketPath Client_Path
         The UNIX domain client socket at Client_Path to receive messages from
         DPDK telemetry library. Defaults to "/var/run/.client".
       DpdkSocketPath Dpdk_Path
         The UNIX domain DPDK telemetry socket to be connected at Dpdk_Path to
         send messages. Defaults to "/var/run/dpdk/rte/telemetry".
   Plugin "email"
       SocketFile Path
           Sets the socket-file which is to be created.
       SocketGroup Group
           If running as root change the group of the UNIX-socket after it has
           been created. Defaults to collectd.
       SocketPerms Permissions
           Change the file permissions of the UNIX-socket after it has been
           created. The permissions must be given as a numeric, octal value as
           you would pass to chmod(1). Defaults to 0770.
       MaxConns Number
           Sets the maximum number of connections that can be handled in
           parallel. Since this many threads will be started immediately
           setting this to a very high value will waste valuable resources.
           Defaults to 5 and will be forced to be at most 16384 to prevent
           typos and dumb mistakes.
   Plugin "ethstat"
       The ethstat plugin collects information about network interface cards
       (NICs) by talking directly with the underlying kernel driver using
       ioctl(2).
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "ethstat">
          Interface "eth0"
          Map "rx_csum_offload_errors" "if_rx_errors" "checksum_offload"
          Map "multicast" "if_multicast"
        </Plugin>
       Options:
       Interface Name
           Collect statistical information about interface Name.
       Map Name Type [TypeInstance]
           By default, the plugin will submit values as type "derive" and type
           instance set to Name, the name of the metric as reported by the
           driver. If an appropriate Map option exists, the given Type and,
           optionally, TypeInstance will be used.
       MappedOnly true|false
           When set to true, only metrics that can be mapped to a type will be
           collected, all other metrics will be ignored. Defaults to false.
   Plugin "exec"
       Please make sure to read collectd-exec(5) before using this plugin. It
       contains valuable information on when the executable is executed and
       the output that is expected from it.
       Exec User[:[Group]] Executable [<arg> [<arg> ...]]
       NotificationExec User[:[Group]] Executable [<arg> [<arg> ...]]
           Execute the executable Executable as user User. If the user name is
           followed by a colon and a group name, the effective group is set to
           that group.  The real group and saved-set group will be set to the
           default group of that user. If no group is given the effective
           group ID will be the same as the real group ID.
           Please note that in order to change the user and/or group the
           daemon needs superuser privileges. If the daemon is run as an
           unprivileged user you must specify the same user/group here. If the
           daemon is run with superuser privileges, you must supply a non-root
           user here.
           The executable may be followed by optional arguments that are
           passed to the program. Please note that due to the configuration
           parsing numbers and boolean values may be changed. If you want to
           be absolutely sure that something is passed as-is please enclose it
           in quotes.
           The Exec and NotificationExec statements change the semantics of
           the programs executed, i. e. the data passed to them and the
           response expected from them. This is documented in great detail in
           collectd-exec(5).
   Plugin "fhcount"
       The "fhcount" plugin provides statistics about used, unused and total
       number of file handles on Linux.
       The fhcount plugin provides the following configuration options:
       ValuesAbsolute true|false
           Enables or disables reporting of file handles usage in absolute
           numbers, e.g. file handles used. Defaults to true.
       ValuesPercentage false|true
           Enables or disables reporting of file handles usage in percentages,
           e.g.  percent of file handles used. Defaults to false.
   Plugin "filecount"
       The "filecount" plugin counts the number of files in a certain
       directory (and its subdirectories) and their combined size. The
       configuration is very straight forward:
         <Plugin "filecount">
           <Directory "/var/qmail/queue/mess">
             Instance "qmail-message"
           </Directory>
           <Directory "/var/qmail/queue/todo">
             Instance "qmail-todo"
           </Directory>
           <Directory "/var/lib/php5">
             Instance "php5-sessions"
             Name "sess_*"
           </Directory>
         </Plugin>
       The example above counts the number of files in QMail's queue
       directories and the number of PHP5 sessions. Jfiy: The "todo" queue
       holds the messages that QMail has not yet looked at, the "message"
       queue holds the messages that were classified into "local" and
       "remote".
       As you can see, the configuration consists of one or more "Directory"
       blocks, each of which specifies a directory in which to count the
       files. Within those blocks, the following options are recognized:
       Plugin Plugin
           Use Plugin as the plugin name when submitting values.  Defaults to
           filecount.
       Instance Instance
           Sets the plugin instance to Instance. If not given, the instance is
           set to the directory name with all slashes replaced by underscores
           and all leading underscores removed. Empty value is allowed.
       Name Pattern
           Only count files that match Pattern, where Pattern is a shell-like
           wildcard as understood by fnmatch(3). Only the filename is checked
           against the pattern, not the entire path. In case this makes it
           easier for you: This option has been named after the -name
           parameter to find(1).
       MTime Age
           Count only files of a specific age: If Age is greater than zero,
           only files that haven't been touched in the last Age seconds are
           counted. If Age is a negative number, this is inversed. For
           example, if -60 is specified, only files that have been modified in
           the last minute will be counted.
           The number can also be followed by a "multiplier" to easily specify
           a larger timespan. When given in this notation, the argument must
           in quoted, i. e.  must be passed as string. So the -60 could also
           be written as "-1m" (one minute). Valid multipliers are "s"
           (second), "m" (minute), "h" (hour), "d" (day), "w" (week), and "y"
           (year). There is no "month" multiplier. You can also specify
           fractional numbers, e. g. "0.5d" is identical to "12h".
       Size Size
           Count only files of a specific size. When Size is a positive
           number, only files that are at least this big are counted. If Size
           is a negative number, this is inversed, i. e. only files smaller
           than the absolute value of Size are counted.
           As with the MTime option, a "multiplier" may be added. For a
           detailed description see above. Valid multipliers here are "b"
           (byte), "k" (kilobyte), "m" (megabyte), "g" (gigabyte), "t"
           (terabyte), and "p" (petabyte). Please note that there are 1000
           bytes in a kilobyte, not 1024.
       Recursive true|false
           Controls whether or not to recurse into subdirectories. Enabled by
           default.
       IncludeHidden true|false
           Controls whether or not to include "hidden" files and directories
           in the count.  "Hidden" files and directories are those, whose name
           begins with a dot.  Defaults to false, i.e. by default hidden files
           and directories are ignored.
       RegularOnly true|false
           Controls whether or not to include only regular files in the count.
           Defaults to true, i.e. by default non regular files are ignored.
       FilesSizeType Type
           Sets the type used to dispatch files combined size. Empty value
           ("") disables reporting. Defaults to bytes.
       FilesCountType Type
           Sets the type used to dispatch number of files. Empty value ("")
           disables reporting. Defaults to files.
       TypeInstance Instance
           Sets the type instance used to dispatch values. Defaults to an
           empty string (no plugin instance).
   Plugin "GenericJMX"
       The GenericJMX plugin is written in Java and therefore documented in
       collectd-java(5).
   Plugin "gmond"
       The gmond plugin received the multicast traffic sent by gmond, the
       statistics collection daemon of Ganglia. Mappings for the standard
       "metrics" are built-in, custom mappings may be added via Metric blocks,
       see below.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "gmond">
          MCReceiveFrom "239.2.11.71" "8649"
          <Metric "swap_total">
            Type "swap"
            TypeInstance "total"
            DataSource "value"
          </Metric>
          <Metric "swap_free">
            Type "swap"
            TypeInstance "free"
            DataSource "value"
          </Metric>
        </Plugin>
       The following metrics are built-in:
       o   load_one, load_five, load_fifteen
       o   cpu_user, cpu_system, cpu_idle, cpu_nice, cpu_wio
       o   mem_free, mem_shared, mem_buffers, mem_cached, mem_total
       o   bytes_in, bytes_out
       o   pkts_in, pkts_out
       Available configuration options:
       MCReceiveFrom MCGroup [Port]
           Sets sets the multicast group and UDP port to which to subscribe.
           Default: 239.2.11.71 / 8649
       <Metric Name>
           These blocks add a new metric conversion to the internal table.
           Name, the string argument to the Metric block, is the metric name
           as used by Ganglia.
           Type Type
               Type to map this metric to. Required.
           TypeInstance Instance
               Type-instance to use. Optional.
           DataSource Name
               Data source to map this metric to. If the configured type has
               exactly one data source, this is optional. Otherwise the option
               is required.
   Plugin "gps"
       The "gps plugin" connects to gpsd on the host machine.  The host, port,
       timeout and pause are configurable.
       This is useful if you run an NTP server using a GPS for source and you
       want to monitor it.
       Mind your GPS must send $--GSA for having the data reported!
       The following elements are collected:
       satellites
           Number of satellites used for fix (type instance "used") and in
           view (type instance "visible"). 0 means no GPS satellites are
           visible.
       dilution_of_precision
           Vertical and horizontal dilution (type instance "horizontal" or
           "vertical").  It should be between 0 and 3.  Look at the
           documentation of your GPS to know more.
       Synopsis:
        LoadPlugin gps
        <Plugin "gps">
          # Connect to localhost on gpsd regular port:
          Host "127.0.0.1"
          Port "2947"
          # 15 ms timeout
          Timeout 0.015
          # PauseConnect of 5 sec. between connection attempts.
          PauseConnect 5
        </Plugin>
       Available configuration options:
       Host Host
           The host on which gpsd daemon runs. Defaults to localhost.
       Port Port
           Port to connect to gpsd on the host machine. Defaults to 2947.
       Timeout Seconds
           Timeout in seconds (default 0.015 sec).
           The GPS data stream is fetch by the plugin form the daemon.  It
           waits for data to be available, if none arrives it times out and
           loop for another reading.  Mind to put a low value gpsd expects
           value in the micro-seconds area (recommended is 500 us) since the
           waiting function is blocking.  Value must be between 500 us and 5
           sec., if outside that range the default value is applied.
           This only applies from gpsd release-2.95.
       PauseConnect Seconds
           Pause to apply between attempts of connection to gpsd in seconds
           (default 5 sec).
   Plugin "gpu_nvidia"
       Efficiently collects various statistics from the system's NVIDIA GPUs
       using the NVML library. Currently collected are fan speed, core
       temperature, percent load, percent memory used, compute and memory
       frequencies, and power consumption.
       GPUIndex
           If one or more of these options is specified, only GPUs at that
           index (as determined by nvidia-utils through nvidia-smi) have
           statistics collected.  If no instance of this option is specified,
           all GPUs are monitored.
       IgnoreSelected
           If set to true, all detected GPUs except the ones at indices
           specified by GPUIndex entries are collected. For greater clarity,
           setting IgnoreSelected without any GPUIndex directives will result
           in no statistics being collected.
       InstanceByGPUIndex
           If set to false, the GPU ID will not be part of the plugin
           instance. The default is 'GPU ID'-'GPU name'
       InstanceByGPUName
           If set to false, the GPU name will not be part of the plugin
           instance. The default is 'GPU ID'-'GPU name'
   Plugin "grpc"
       The grpc plugin provides an RPC interface to submit values to or query
       values from collectd based on the open source gRPC framework. It
       exposes an end-point for dispatching values to the daemon.
       The gRPC homepage can be found at <https://grpc.io/>;.
       Server Host Port
           The Server statement sets the address of a server to which to send
           metrics via the "DispatchValues" function.
           The argument Host may be a hostname, an IPv4 address, or an IPv6
           address.
           Optionally, Server may be specified as a configuration block which
           supports the following options:
           EnableSSL false|true
               Whether to require SSL for outgoing connections. Default:
               false.
           SSLCACertificateFile Filename
           SSLCertificateFile Filename
           SSLCertificateKeyFile Filename
               Filenames specifying SSL certificate and key material to be
               used with SSL connections.
       Listen Host Port
           The Listen statement sets the network address to bind to. When
           multiple statements are specified, the daemon will bind to all of
           them. If none are specified, it defaults to 0.0.0.0:50051.
           The argument Host may be a hostname, an IPv4 address, or an IPv6
           address.
           Optionally, Listen may be specified as a configuration block which
           supports the following options:
           EnableSSL true|false
               Whether to enable SSL for incoming connections. Default: false.
           SSLCACertificateFile Filename
           SSLCertificateFile Filename
           SSLCertificateKeyFile Filename
               Filenames specifying SSL certificate and key material to be
               used with SSL connections.
           VerifyPeer true|false
               When enabled, a valid client certificate is required to connect
               to the server.  When disabled, a client certifiacte is not
               requested and any unsolicited client certificate is accepted.
               Enabled by default.
   Plugin "hddtemp"
       To get values from hddtemp collectd connects to localhost (127.0.0.1),
       port 7634/tcp. The Host and Port options can be used to change these
       default values, see below. "hddtemp" has to be running to work
       correctly. If "hddtemp" is not running timeouts may appear which may
       interfere with other statistics..
       The hddtemp homepage can be found at
       <http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php>;.
       Host Hostname
           Hostname to connect to. Defaults to 127.0.0.1.
       Port Port
           TCP-Port to connect to. Defaults to 7634.
   Plugin "hugepages"
       To collect hugepages information, collectd reads directories
       "/sys/devices/system/node/*/hugepages" and "/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages".
       Reading of these directories can be disabled by the following options
       (default is enabled).
       ReportPerNodeHP true|false
           If enabled, information will be collected from the hugepage
           counters in "/sys/devices/system/node/*/hugepages".  This is used
           to check the per-node hugepage statistics on a NUMA system.
       ReportRootHP true|false
           If enabled, information will be collected from the hugepage
           counters in "/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages".  This can be used on both
           NUMA and non-NUMA systems to check the overall hugepage statistics.
       ValuesPages true|false
           Whether to report hugepages metrics in number of pages.  Defaults
           to true.
       ValuesBytes false|true
           Whether to report hugepages metrics in bytes.  Defaults to false.
       ValuesPercentage false|true
           Whether to report hugepages metrics as percentage.  Defaults to
           false.
   Plugin "infiniband"
       The "infiniband" plugin collects information about IB ports. Metrics
       are gathered from "/sys/class/infiniband/DEVICE/port/PORTNUM/*", and
       Port names are formatted like "DEVICE:PORTNUM" (see examples below).
       Options:
       Port Port
           Select the port Port. Whether it is collected or ignored depends on
           the IgnoreSelected setting, see below. As with other plugins that
           use the daemon's ignorelist functionality, a string that starts and
           ends with a slash is interpreted as a regular expression. Examples:
             Port "mlx5_0:1"
             Port "/mthca0:[0-9]/"
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           Sets whether selected ports are ignored or if all other ports are
           ignored. The behavior (hopefully) is intuitive: If no Port option
           is configured, all ports are collected. If at least one Port option
           is given and IgnoreSelected is not given or set to false, only
           matching ports will be collected. If IgnoreSelected is set to true,
           all ports are collected except the ones matched.
   Plugin "intel_pmu"
       The intel_pmu plugin collects performance counters data on Intel CPUs
       using Linux perf interface. All events are reported on a per core
       basis.
       Synopsis:
         <Plugin intel_pmu>
           ReportHardwareCacheEvents true
           ReportKernelPMUEvents true
           ReportSoftwareEvents true
           EventList "/var/cache/pmu/GenuineIntel-6-2D-core.json"
           HardwareEvents "L2_RQSTS.CODE_RD_HIT,L2_RQSTS.CODE_RD_MISS" "L2_RQSTS.ALL_CODE_RD"
           Cores "0-3" "4,6" "[12-15]"
           DispatchMultiPmu false
         </Plugin>
       Options:
       ReportHardwareCacheEvents false|true
           Enable or disable measuring of hardware CPU cache events:
             - L1-dcache-loads
             - L1-dcache-load-misses
             - L1-dcache-stores
             - L1-dcache-store-misses
             - L1-dcache-prefetches
             - L1-dcache-prefetch-misses
             - L1-icache-loads
             - L1-icache-load-misses
             - L1-icache-prefetches
             - L1-icache-prefetch-misses
             - LLC-loads
             - LLC-load-misses
             - LLC-stores
             - LLC-store-misses
             - LLC-prefetches
             - LLC-prefetch-misses
             - dTLB-loads
             - dTLB-load-misses
             - dTLB-stores
             - dTLB-store-misses
             - dTLB-prefetches
             - dTLB-prefetch-misses
             - iTLB-loads
             - iTLB-load-misses
             - branch-loads
             - branch-load-misses
       ReportKernelPMUEvents false|true
           Enable or disable measuring of the following events:
             - cpu-cycles
             - instructions
             - cache-references
             - cache-misses
             - branches
             - branch-misses
             - bus-cycles
       ReportSoftwareEvents false|true
           Enable or disable measuring of software events provided by kernel:
             - cpu-clock
             - task-clock
             - context-switches
             - cpu-migrations
             - page-faults
             - minor-faults
             - major-faults
             - alignment-faults
             - emulation-faults
       EventList filename
           JSON performance counter event list file name. To be able to
           monitor all Intel CPU specific events JSON event list file should
           be downloaded. Use the pmu-tools event_download.py script to
           download event list for current CPU.
       HardwareEvents events
           This field is a list of event names or groups of comma separated
           event names.  This option requires EventList option to be
           configured.
       Cores cores groups
           All events are reported on a per core basis. Monitoring of the
           events can be configured for a group of cores (aggregated
           statistics). This field defines groups of cores on which to monitor
           supported events. The field is represented as list of strings with
           core group values. Each string represents a list of cores in a
           group. If a group is enclosed in square brackets each core is added
           individually to a separate group (that is statistics are not
           aggregated).  Allowed formats are:
               0,1,2,3
               0-10,20-18
               1,3,5-8,10,0x10-12
               [4-15,32-63]
           If an empty string is provided as value for this field default
           cores configuration is applied - that is separate group is created
           for each core.
       DispatchMultiPmu false|true
           Enable or disable dispatching of cloned multi PMU for uncore
           events. If disabled only total sum is dispatched as single event.
           If enabled separate metric is dispatched for every counter.
   Plugin "intel_rdt"
       The intel_rdt plugin collects information provided by monitoring
       features of Intel Resource Director Technology (Intel(R) RDT) like
       Cache Monitoring Technology (CMT), Memory Bandwidth Monitoring (MBM).
       These features provide information about utilization of shared
       resources. CMT monitors last level cache occupancy (LLC). MBM supports
       two types of events reporting local and remote memory bandwidth. Local
       memory bandwidth (MBL) reports the bandwidth of accessing memory
       associated with the local socket. Remote memory bandwidth (MBR) reports
       the bandwidth of accessing the remote socket. Also this technology
       allows to monitor instructions per clock (IPC).  Monitor events are
       hardware dependant. Monitoring capabilities are detected on plugin
       initialization and only supported events are monitored.
       Note: intel_rdt plugin is using model-specific registers (MSRs), which
       require an additional capability to be enabled if collectd is run as a
       service.  Please refer to contrib/systemd.collectd.service file for
       more details.
       Synopsis:
         <Plugin "intel_rdt">
           Cores "0-2" "3,4,6" "8-10,15"
           Processes "sshd,qemu-system-x86" "bash"
         </Plugin>
       Options:
       Interval seconds
           The interval within which to retrieve statistics on monitored
           events in seconds.  For milliseconds divide the time by 1000 for
           example if the desired interval is 50ms, set interval to 0.05. Due
           to limited capacity of counters it is not recommended to set
           interval higher than 1 sec.
       Cores cores groups
           Monitoring of the events can be configured for group of cores
           (aggregated statistics). This field defines groups of cores on
           which to monitor supported events. The field is represented as list
           of strings with core group values. Each string represents a list of
           cores in a group. Allowed formats are:
               0,1,2,3
               0-10,20-18
               1,3,5-8,10,0x10-12
           If an empty string is provided as value for this field default
           cores configuration is applied - a separate group is created for
           each core.
       Processes process names groups
           Monitoring of the events can be configured for group of processes
           (aggregated statistics). This field defines groups of processes on
           which to monitor supported events. The field is represented as list
           of strings with process names group values. Each string represents
           a list of processes in a group. Allowed format is:
               sshd,bash,qemu
       Note: By default global interval is used to retrieve statistics on
       monitored events. To configure a plugin specific interval use Interval
       option of the intel_rdt <LoadPlugin> block. For milliseconds divide the
       time by 1000 for example if the desired interval is 50ms, set interval
       to 0.05.  Due to limited capacity of counters it is not recommended to
       set interval higher than 1 sec.
   Plugin "interface"
       Interface Interface
           Select this interface. By default these interfaces will then be
           collected. For a more detailed description see IgnoreSelected
           below.
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           If no configuration is given, the interface-plugin will collect
           data from all interfaces. This may not be practical, especially for
           loopback- and similar interfaces. Thus, you can use the
           Interface-option to pick the interfaces you're interested in.
           Sometimes, however, it's easier/preferred to collect all interfaces
           except a few ones. This option enables you to do that: By setting
           IgnoreSelected to true the effect of Interface is inverted: All
           selected interfaces are ignored and all other interfaces are
           collected.
           It is possible to use regular expressions to match interface names,
           if the name is surrounded by /.../ and collectd was compiled with
           support for regexps. This is useful if there's a need to collect
           (or ignore) data for a group of interfaces that are similarly
           named, without the need to explicitly list all of them (especially
           useful if the list is dynamic).  Example:
            Interface "lo"
            Interface "/^veth/"
            Interface "/^tun[0-9]+/"
            IgnoreSelected "true"
           This will ignore the loopback interface, all interfaces with names
           starting with veth and all interfaces with names starting with tun
           followed by at least one digit.
       ReportInactive true|false
           When set to false, only interfaces with non-zero traffic will be
           reported. Note that the check is done by looking into whether a
           package was sent at any time from boot and the corresponding
           counter is non-zero. So, if the interface has been sending data in
           the past since boot, but not during the reported time-interval, it
           will still be reported.
           The default value is true and results in collection of the data
           from all interfaces that are selected by Interface and
           IgnoreSelected options.
       UniqueName true|false
           Interface name is not unique on Solaris (KSTAT), interface name is
           unique only within a module/instance. Following tuple is considered
           unique:
              (ks_module, ks_instance, ks_name) If this option is set to true,
           interface name contains above three fields separated by an
           underscore. For more info on KSTAT, visit
           <http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1468/kstat-3kstat.html#REFMAN3Ekstat-3kstat>;
           This option is only available on Solaris.
   Plugin "ipmi"
       The ipmi plugin allows to monitor server platform status using the
       Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). Local and remote
       interfaces are supported.
       The plugin configuration consists of one or more Instance blocks which
       specify one ipmi connection each. Each block requires one unique string
       argument as the instance name. If instances are not configured, an
       instance with the default option values will be created.
       For backwards compatibility, any option other than Instance block will
       trigger legacy config handling and it will be treated as an option
       within Instance block. This support will go away in the next major
       version of Collectd.
       Within the Instance blocks, the following options are allowed:
       Address Address
           Hostname or IP to connect to. If not specified, plugin will try to
           connect to local management controller (BMC).
       Username Username
       Password Password
           The username and the password to use for the connection to remote
           BMC.
       AuthType MD5|rmcp+
           Forces the authentication type to use for the connection to remote
           BMC.  By default most secure type is seleted.
       Host Hostname
           Sets the host field of dispatched values. Defaults to the global
           hostname setting.
       Sensor Sensor
           Selects sensors to collect or to ignore, depending on
           IgnoreSelected.
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           If no configuration if given, the ipmi plugin will collect data
           from all sensors found of type "temperature", "voltage", "current"
           and "fanspeed".  This option enables you to do that: By setting
           IgnoreSelected to true the effect of Sensor is inverted: All
           selected sensors are ignored and all other sensors are collected.
       NotifySensorAdd true|false
           If a sensor appears after initialization time of a minute a
           notification is sent.
       NotifySensorRemove true|false
           If a sensor disappears a notification is sent.
       NotifySensorNotPresent true|false
           If you have for example dual power supply and one of them is
           (un)plugged then a notification is sent.
       NotifyIPMIConnectionState true|false
           If a IPMI connection state changes after initialization time of a
           minute a notification is sent. Defaults to false.
       SELEnabled true|false
           If system event log (SEL) is enabled, plugin will listen for sensor
           threshold and discrete events. When event is received the
           notification is sent.  SEL event filtering can be configured using
           SELSensor and SELIgnoreSelected config options.  Defaults to false.
       SELSensor SELSensor
           Selects sensors to get events from or to ignore, depending on
           SELIgnoreSelected.
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       SELIgnoreSelected true|false
           If no configuration is given, the ipmi plugin will pass events from
           all sensors. This option enables you to do that: By setting
           SELIgnoreSelected to true the effect of SELSensor is inverted: All
           events from selected sensors are ignored and all events from other
           sensors are passed.
       SELClearEvent true|false
           If SEL clear event is enabled, plugin will delete event from SEL
           list after it is received and successfully handled. In this case
           other tools that are subscribed for SEL events will receive an
           empty event.  Defaults to false.
   Plugin "ipstats"
       This plugin collects counts for ipv4 and ipv6 various types of packets
       passing through the system in total.  At the moment it's only supported
       on FreeBSD.
       The full list of options available to include in the counted statistics
       is:
         ip4receive         IPv4 total packets received
         ip4badsum          IPv4 checksum bad
         ip4tooshort        IPv4 packet too short
         ip4toosmall        IPv4 not enough data
         ip4badhlen         IPv4 ip header length < data size
         ip4badlen          IPv4 ip length < ip header length
         ip4fragment        IPv4 fragments received
         ip4fragdrop        IPv4 frags dropped (dups, out of space)
         ip4fragtimeout     IPv4 fragments timed out
         ip4forward         IPv4 packets forwarded
         ip4fastforward     IPv4 packets fast forwarded
         ip4cantforward     IPv4 packets rcvd for unreachable dest
         ip4redirectsent    IPv4 packets forwarded on same net
         ip4noproto         IPv4 unknown or unsupported protocol
         ip4deliver         IPv4 datagrams delivered to upper level
         ip4transmit        IPv4 total ip packets generated here
         ip4odrop           IPv4 lost packets due to nobufs, etc.
         ip4reassemble      IPv4 total packets reassembled ok
         ip4fragmented      IPv4 datagrams successfully fragmented
         ip4ofragment       IPv4 output fragments created
         ip4cantfrag        IPv4 don't fragment flag was set, etc.
         ip4badoptions      IPv4 error in option processing
         ip4noroute         IPv4 packets discarded due to no route
         ip4badvers         IPv4 ip version != 4
         ip4rawout          IPv4 total raw ip packets generated
         ip4toolong         IPv4 ip length > max ip packet size
         ip4notmember       IPv4 multicasts for unregistered grps
         ip4nogif           IPv4 no match gif found
         ip4badaddr         IPv4 invalid address on header
         ip6receive         IPv6 total packets received
         ip6tooshort        IPv6 packet too short
         ip6toosmall        IPv6 not enough data
         ip6fragment        IPv6 fragments received
         ip6fragdrop        IPv6 frags dropped(dups, out of space)
         ip6fragtimeout     IPv6 fragments timed out
         ip6fragoverflow    IPv6 fragments that exceeded limit
         ip6forward         IPv6 packets forwarded
         ip6cantforward     IPv6 packets rcvd for unreachable dest
         ip6redirectsent    IPv6 packets forwarded on same net
         ip6deliver         IPv6 datagrams delivered to upper level
         ip6transmit        IPv6 total ip packets generated here
         ip6odrop           IPv6 lost packets due to nobufs, etc.
         ip6reassemble      IPv6 total packets reassembled ok
         ip6fragmented      IPv6 datagrams successfully fragmented
         ip6ofragment       IPv6 output fragments created
         ip6cantfrag        IPv6 don't fragment flag was set, etc.
         ip6badoptions      IPv6 error in option processing
         ip6noroute         IPv6 packets discarded due to no route
         ip6badvers         IPv6 ip6 version != 6
         ip6rawout          IPv6 total raw ip packets generated
         ip6badscope        IPv6 scope error
         ip6notmember       IPv6 don't join this multicast group
         ip6nogif           IPv6 no match gif found
         ip6toomanyhdr      IPv6 discarded due to too many headers
       By default the following options are included in the counted packets:
       - ip4receive - ip4forward - ip4transmit
       - ip6receive - ip6forward - ip6transmit
       For example to also count IPv4 and IPv6 fragments received, include the
       following configuration:
         <Plugin ipstats>
           ip4fragment true
           ip6fragment true
         </Plugin>
   Plugin "iptables"
       Chain Table Chain [Comment|Number [Name]]
       Chain6 Table Chain [Comment|Number [Name]]
           Select the iptables/ip6tables filter rules to count packets and
           bytes from.
           If only Table and Chain are given, this plugin will collect the
           counters of all rules which have a comment-match. The comment is
           then used as type-instance.
           If Comment or Number is given, only the rule with the matching
           comment or the nth rule will be collected. Again, the comment (or
           the number) will be used as the type-instance.
           If Name is supplied, it will be used as the type-instance instead
           of the comment or the number.
   Plugin "irq"
       Irq Irq
           Select this irq. By default these irqs will then be collected. For
           a more detailed description see IgnoreSelected below.
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           If no configuration if given, the irq-plugin will collect data from
           all irqs. This may not be practical, especially if no interrupts
           happen. Thus, you can use the Irq-option to pick the interrupt
           you're interested in.  Sometimes, however, it's easier/preferred to
           collect all interrupts except a few ones. This option enables you
           to do that: By setting IgnoreSelected to true the effect of Irq is
           inverted: All selected interrupts are ignored and all other
           interrupts are collected.
   Plugin "java"
       The Java plugin makes it possible to write extensions for collectd in
       Java.  This section only discusses the syntax and semantic of the
       configuration options. For more in-depth information on the Java
       plugin, please read collectd-java(5).
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "java">
          JVMArg "-verbose:jni"
          JVMArg "-Djava.class.path=/opt/collectd/lib/collectd/bindings/java"
          LoadPlugin "org.collectd.java.Foobar"
          <Plugin "org.collectd.java.Foobar">
            # To be parsed by the plugin
          </Plugin>
        </Plugin>
       Available configuration options:
       JVMArg Argument
           Argument that is to be passed to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
           This works exactly the way the arguments to the java binary on the
           command line work.  Execute "java --help" for details.
           Please note that all these options must appear before (i. e. above)
           any other options! When another option is found, the JVM will be
           started and later options will have to be ignored!
       LoadPlugin JavaClass
           Instantiates a new JavaClass object. The constructor of this object
           very likely then registers one or more callback methods with the
           server.
           See collectd-java(5) for details.
           When the first such option is found, the virtual machine (JVM) is
           created. This means that all JVMArg options must appear before
           (i. e. above) all LoadPlugin options!
       Plugin Name
           The entire block is passed to the Java plugin as an
           org.collectd.api.OConfigItem object.
           For this to work, the plugin has to register a configuration
           callback first, see "config callback" in collectd-java(5). This
           means, that the Plugin block must appear after the appropriate
           LoadPlugin block. Also note, that Name depends on the (Java) plugin
           registering the callback and is completely independent from the
           JavaClass argument passed to LoadPlugin.
   Plugin "load"
       The Load plugin collects the system load. These numbers give a rough
       overview over the utilization of a machine. The system load is defined
       as the number of runnable tasks in the run-queue and is provided by
       many operating systems as a one, five or fifteen minute average.
       The following configuration options are available:
       ReportRelative false|true
           When enabled, system load divided by number of available CPU cores
           is reported for intervals 1 min, 5 min and 15 min. Defaults to
           false.
   Plugin "logfile"
       LogLevel debug|info|notice|warning|err
           Sets the log-level. If, for example, set to notice, then all events
           with severity notice, warning, or err will be written to the
           logfile.
           Please note that debug is only available if collectd has been
           compiled with debugging support.
       File File
           Sets the file to write log messages to. The special strings stdout
           and stderr can be used to write to the standard output and standard
           error channels, respectively. This, of course, only makes much
           sense when collectd is running in foreground- or non-daemon-mode.
       Timestamp true|false
           Prefix all lines printed by the current time. Defaults to true.
       PrintSeverity true|false
           When enabled, all lines are prefixed by the severity of the log
           message, for example "warning". Defaults to false.
       Note: There is no need to notify the daemon after moving or removing
       the log file (e. g. when rotating the logs). The plugin reopens the
       file for each line it writes.
   Plugin "logparser"
       The logparser plugin is used to parse different kinds of logs. Setting
       proper options you can choose strings to collect. Plugin searches the
       log file for messages which contain several matches (two or more). When
       all mandatory matches are found then it sends proper notification
       containing all fetched values.
       Synopsis:
         <Plugin logparser>
           <Logfile "/var/log/syslog">
             FirstFullRead false
             <Message "pcie_errors">
               DefaultType "pcie_error"
               DefaultSeverity "warning"
               <Match "aer error">
                 Regex "AER:.*error received"
                 SubmatchIdx -1
               </Match>
               <Match "incident time">
                 Regex "(... .. ..:..:..) .* pcieport.*AER"
                 SubmatchIdx 1
                 IsMandatory false
               </Match>
               <Match "root port">
                 Regex "pcieport (.*): AER:"
                 SubmatchIdx 1
                 IsMandatory true
               </Match>
               <Match "device">
                 PluginInstance true
                 Regex " ([0-9a-fA-F:\\.]*): PCIe Bus Error"
                 SubmatchIdx 1
                 IsMandatory false
               </Match>
               <Match "severity_mandatory">
                 Regex "severity="
                 SubMatchIdx -1
               </Match>
               <Match "nonfatal">
                 Regex "severity=.*\\([nN]on-[fF]atal"
                 TypeInstance "non_fatal"
                 IsMandatory false
               </Match>
               <Match "fatal">
                 Regex "severity=.*\\([fF]atal"
                 Severity "failure"
                 TypeInstance "fatal"
                 IsMandatory false
               </Match>
               <Match "corrected">
                 Regex "severity=Corrected"
                 TypeInstance "correctable"
                 IsMandatory false
               </Match>
               <Match "error type">
                 Regex "type=(.*),"
                 SubmatchIdx 1
                 IsMandatory false
               </Match>
              <Match "id">
                 Regex ", id=(.*)"
                 SubmatchIdx 1
               </Match>
             </Message>
           </Logfile>
         </Plugin>
       Options:
       Logfile File
           The Logfile block defines file to search. It may contain one or
           more Message blocks which are defined below.
       FirstFullRead true|false
           Set to true if the file has to be parsed from the beginning on the
           first read.  If false only subsequent writes to log file will be
           parsed.
       Message Name
           Message block contains matches to search the log file for. Each
           Message block builds a notification message using matched elements
           if its mandatory Match blocks are matched.
       DefaultPluginInstance String
           Sets the default value for the plugin instance of the notification.
       DefaultType String
           Sets the default value for the type of the notification.
       DefaultTypeInstance String
           Sets the default value for the type instance of the notification.
       DefaultSeverity String
           Sets the default severity. Must be set to "OK", "WARNING" or
           "FAILURE".  Default value is "OK".
       Match Name
           Multiple Match blocks define regular expression patterns for
           extracting or excluding specific string patterns from parsing.
           First and last Match items in the same Message set boundaries of
           multiline message and are mandatory.  If these matches are not
           found then the whole message is discarded.
       Regex Regex
           Regular expression with pattern matching string. It may contain
           subexpressions, so next option SubmatchIdx specifies which
           subexpression should be stored.
       SubmatchIdx Integer
           Index of subexpression to be used for notification. Multiple
           subexpressions are allowed. Index value 0 takes whole regular
           expression match as a result.  Index value -1 does not add result
           to message item. Can be omitted, default value is 0.
       Excluderegex Regex
           Regular expression for excluding lines containing specific matching
           strings.  This is processed before checking Regex pattern. It is
           optional and can be omitted.
       IsMandatory  true|false
           Flag indicating if Match item is mandatory for message validation.
           If set to true, whole message is discarded if it's missing. For
           false its presence is optional. Default value is set to true.
       PluginInstance true|String
           If set to true, it sets plugin instance to string returned by
           regex. It can be overridden by user string.
       Type true|String
           Sets notification type using rules like PluginInstance.
       TypeInstance true|String
           Sets notification type instance using rules like above.
       Severity String
           Sets notification severity to one of the options: "OK", "WARNING",
           "FAILURE".
   Plugin "log_logstash"
       The log logstash plugin behaves like the logfile plugin but formats
       messages as JSON events for logstash to parse and input.
       LogLevel debug|info|notice|warning|err
           Sets the log-level. If, for example, set to notice, then all events
           with severity notice, warning, or err will be written to the
           logfile.
           Please note that debug is only available if collectd has been
           compiled with debugging support.
       File File
           Sets the file to write log messages to. The special strings stdout
           and stderr can be used to write to the standard output and standard
           error channels, respectively. This, of course, only makes much
           sense when collectd is running in foreground- or non-daemon-mode.
       Note: There is no need to notify the daemon after moving or removing
       the log file (e. g. when rotating the logs). The plugin reopens the
       file for each line it writes.
   Plugin "lpar"
       The LPAR plugin reads CPU statistics of Logical Partitions, a
       virtualization technique for IBM POWER processors. It takes into
       account CPU time stolen from or donated to a partition, in addition to
       the usual user, system, I/O statistics.
       The following configuration options are available:
       CpuPoolStats false|true
           When enabled, statistics about the processor pool are read, too.
           The partition needs to have pool authority in order to be able to
           acquire this information.  Defaults to false.
       ReportBySerial false|true
           If enabled, the serial of the physical machine the partition is
           currently running on is reported as hostname and the logical
           hostname of the machine is reported in the plugin instance.
           Otherwise, the logical hostname will be used (just like other
           plugins) and the plugin instance will be empty.  Defaults to false.
   Plugin "lua"
       This plugin embeds a Lua interpreter into collectd and provides an
       interface to collectd's plugin system. See collectd-lua(5) for its
       documentation.
   Plugin "mbmon"
       The "mbmon plugin" uses mbmon to retrieve temperature, voltage, etc.
       Be default collectd connects to localhost (127.0.0.1), port 411/tcp.
       The Host and Port options can be used to change these values, see
       below.  "mbmon" has to be running to work correctly. If "mbmon" is not
       running timeouts may appear which may interfere with other statistics..
       "mbmon" must be run with the -r option ("print TAG and Value format");
       Debian's /etc/init.d/mbmon script already does this, other people will
       need to ensure that this is the case.
       Host Hostname
           Hostname to connect to. Defaults to 127.0.0.1.
       Port Port
           TCP-Port to connect to. Defaults to 411.
   Plugin "mdevents "
       The  mdevents  plugin collects status changes from md (Linux software
       RAID) devices.
       RAID arrays are meant to allow users/administrators to keep systems up
       and running, in case of common hardware problems (disk failure). Mdadm
       is the standard software RAID management tool for Linux. It provides
       the ability to monitor "metadata event" occurring such as disk
       failures, clean-to-dirty transitions, and etc. The kernel provides the
       ability to report such actions to the userspace via sysfs, and mdadm
       takes action accordingly with the monitoring capability. The mdmon
       polls the /sys looking for changes in the entries array_state,
       sync_action, and per disk state attribute files. This is meaningful for
       RAID1, 5 and 10 only.
       Mdevents plugin is based on gathering RAID array events that are
       written to syslog by mdadm. After registering an event, it can send a
       collectd notification that contains mdadm event's data. Event consists
       of event type, raid array name and, for particular events, name of
       component device.
       Example message:
       "Jan 17 05:24:27 pc1 mdadm[188]: NewArray event detected on md device
       /dev/md0"
       Plugin also classifies gathered event. This means that a notification
       will have a different severity {OKAY, WARNING, FAILURE} for particular
       mdadm event.
       For proper work, mdevents plugin needs syslog and mdadm utilities to be
       present on the running system. Otherwise it will not be compiled as a
       part of collectd.
       Synopsis:
         <Plugin mdevents>
           Event ""
           IgnoreEvent False
           Array ""
           IgnoreArray False
         </Plugin>
       Plugin configuration:
       Mdevents plugin's configuration is mostly based on IgnoreList, which is
       a collectd's utility. User can specify what particular events/RAID
       arrays lie in his interest.  Setting of IgnoreEvent/IgnoreArray
       booleans won't take effect if Event/Array config lists are empty -
       plugin will accept entry anyway.
       Options:
       Event "EventName"
           Names of events to be monitored, separated by spaces. Possible
           events include:
           Event Name        | Class of event
           ------------------+--------------- DeviceDisappeared | FAILURE
           RebuildStarted    | OKAY RebuildNN         | OKAY RebuildFinished
           | WARNING Fail              | FAILURE FailSpare         | WARNING
           SpareActive       | OKAY NewArray          | OKAY DegradedArray
           | FAILURE MoveSpare         | WARNING SparesMissing     | WARNING
           TestMessage       | OKAY
           User should set the events that should be monitored as a strings
           separated by spaces, for example Events "DeviceDisappeared Fail
           DegradedArray".
       IgnoreEvent false|true
           If IgnoreEvent is set to true, events specified in Events will be
           ignored.  If it's false, only specified events will be monitored.
       Array arrays
           User can specify an array or a group of arrays using regexp. Plugin
           will accept only RAID arrays names that start with "/dev/md".
       IgnoreArray false|true
           If IgnoreArray is set to true, arrays specified in Array will be
           ignored.  If it's false, only specified events will be monitored.
   Plugin "mcelog"
       The "mcelog plugin" uses mcelog to retrieve machine check exceptions.
       By default the plugin connects to "/var/run/mcelog-client" to check if
       the mcelog server is running. When the server is running, the plugin
       will tail the specified logfile to retrieve machine check exception
       information and send a notification with the details from the logfile.
       The plugin will use the mcelog client protocol to retrieve memory
       related machine check exceptions. Note that for memory exceptions,
       notifications are only sent when there is a change in the number of
       corrected/uncorrected memory errors.
       The Memory block
       Note: these options cannot be used in conjunction with the logfile
       options, they are mutually exclusive.
       McelogClientSocket Path Connect to the mcelog client socket using the
       UNIX domain socket at Path. Defaults to "/var/run/mcelog-client".
       PersistentNotification true|false Override default configuration to
       only send notifications when sent when there is a change in the number
       of corrected/uncorrected memory errors. When set to true notifications
       will be sent for every read cycle. Default is false. Does not affect
       the stats being dispatched.
       McelogLogfile Path
           The mcelog file to parse. Defaults to "/var/log/mcelog". Note: this
           option cannot be used in conjunction with the memory block options,
           they are mutually exclusive.
   Plugin "md"
       The "md plugin" collects information from Linux Software-RAID devices
       (md).
       All reported values are of the type "md_disks". Reported type instances
       are active, failed (present but not operational), spare (hot stand-by)
       and missing (physically absent) disks.
       Device Device
           Select md devices based on device name. The device name is the
           basename of the device, i.e. the name of the block device without
           the leading "/dev/".  See IgnoreSelected for more details.
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           Invert device selection: If set to true, all md devices except
           those listed using Device are collected. If false (the default),
           only those listed are collected. If no configuration is given, the
           md plugin will collect data from all md devices.
   Plugin "memcachec"
       The "memcachec plugin" connects to a memcached server, queries one or
       more given pages and parses the returned data according to user
       specification.  The matches used are the same as the matches used in
       the "curl" and "tail" plugins.
       In order to talk to the memcached server, this plugin uses the
       libmemcached library. Please note that there is another library with a
       very similar name, libmemcache (notice the missing `d'), which is not
       applicable.
       Synopsis of the configuration:
        <Plugin "memcachec">
          <Page "plugin_instance">
            Server "localhost"
            Key "page_key"
            Plugin "plugin_name"
            <Match>
              Regex "(\\d+) bytes sent"
              DSType CounterAdd
              Type "ipt_octets"
              Instance "type_instance"
            </Match>
          </Page>
        </Plugin>
       The configuration options are:
       <Page Name>
           Each Page block defines one page to be queried from the memcached
           server.  The block requires one string argument which is used as
           plugin instance.
       Server Address
           Sets the server address to connect to when querying the page. Must
           be inside a Page block.
       Key Key
           When connected to the memcached server, asks for the page Key.
       Plugin Plugin
           Use Plugin as the plugin name when submitting values.  Defaults to
           "memcachec".
       <Match>
           Match blocks define which strings to look for and how matches
           substrings are interpreted. For a description of match blocks,
           please see "Plugin tail".
   Plugin "memcached"
       The memcached plugin connects to a memcached server and queries
       statistics about cache utilization, memory and bandwidth used.
       <http://memcached.org/>;
        <Plugin "memcached">
          <Instance "name">
            #Host "memcache.example.com"
            Address "127.0.0.1"
            Port 11211
          </Instance>
        </Plugin>
       The plugin configuration consists of one or more Instance blocks which
       specify one memcached connection each. Within the Instance blocks, the
       following options are allowed:
       Host Hostname
           Sets the host field of dispatched values. Defaults to the global
           hostname setting.  For backwards compatibility, values are also
           dispatched with the global hostname when Host is set to 127.0.0.1
           or localhost and Address is not set.
       Address Address
           Hostname or IP to connect to. For backwards compatibility, defaults
           to the value of Host or 127.0.0.1 if Host is unset.
       Port Port
           TCP port to connect to. Defaults to 11211.
       Socket Path
           Connect to memcached using the UNIX domain socket at Path. If this
           setting is given, the Address and Port settings are ignored.
   Plugin "mic"
       The mic plugin gathers CPU statistics, memory usage and temperatures
       from Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) systems.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin mic>
          ShowCPU true
          ShowCPUCores true
          ShowMemory true
          ShowTemperatures true
          Temperature vddg
          Temperature vddq
          IgnoreSelectedTemperature true
          ShowPower true
          Power total0
          Power total1
          IgnoreSelectedPower true
        </Plugin>
       The following options are valid inside the Plugin mic block:
       ShowCPU true|false
           If enabled (the default) a sum of the CPU usage across all cores is
           reported.
       ShowCPUCores true|false
           If enabled (the default) per-core CPU usage is reported.
       ShowMemory true|false
           If enabled (the default) the physical memory usage of the MIC
           system is reported.
       ShowTemperatures true|false
           If enabled (the default) various temperatures of the MIC system are
           reported.
       Temperature Name
           This option controls which temperatures are being reported. Whether
           matching temperatures are being ignored or only matching
           temperatures are reported depends on the IgnoreSelectedTemperature
           setting below. By default all temperatures are reported.
       IgnoreSelectedTemperature false|true
           Controls the behavior of the Temperature setting above. If set to
           false (the default) only temperatures matching a Temperature option
           are reported or, if no Temperature option is specified, all
           temperatures are reported. If set to true, matching temperatures
           are ignored and all other temperatures are reported.
           Known temperature names are:
           die Die of the CPU
           devmem
               Device Memory
           fin Fan In
           fout
               Fan Out
           vccp
               Voltage ccp
           vddg
               Voltage ddg
           vddq
               Voltage ddq
       ShowPower true|false
           If enabled (the default) various temperatures of the MIC system are
           reported.
       Power Name
           This option controls which power readings are being reported.
           Whether matching power readings are being ignored or only matching
           power readings are reported depends on the IgnoreSelectedPower
           setting below. By default all power readings are reported.
       IgnoreSelectedPower false|true
           Controls the behavior of the Power setting above. If set to false
           (the default) only power readings matching a Power option are
           reported or, if no Power option is specified, all power readings
           are reported. If set to true, matching power readings are ignored
           and all other power readings are reported.
           Known power names are:
           total0
               Total power utilization averaged over Time Window 0 (uWatts).
           total1
               Total power utilization averaged over Time Window 0 (uWatts).
           inst
               Instantaneous power (uWatts).
           imax
               Max instantaneous power (uWatts).
           pcie
               PCI-E connector power (uWatts).
           c2x3
               2x3 connector power (uWatts).
           c2x4
               2x4 connector power (uWatts).
           vccp
               Core rail (uVolts).
           vddg
               Uncore rail (uVolts).
           vddq
               Memory subsystem rail (uVolts).
   Plugin "memory"
       The memory plugin provides the following configuration options:
       ValuesAbsolute true|false
           Enables or disables reporting of physical memory usage in absolute
           numbers, i.e. bytes. Defaults to true.
       ValuesPercentage false|true
           Enables or disables reporting of physical memory usage in
           percentages, e.g.  percent of physical memory used. Defaults to
           false.
           This is useful for deploying collectd in a heterogeneous
           environment in which the sizes of physical memory vary.
   Plugin "modbus"
       The modbus plugin connects to a Modbus "slave" via Modbus/TCP or
       Modbus/RTU and reads register values. It supports reading single
       registers (unsigned 16 bit values), large integer values (unsigned
       32 bit and 64 bit values) and floating point values (two registers
       interpreted as IEEE floats in big endian notation).
       Synopsis:
        <Data "voltage-input-1">
          RegisterBase 0
          RegisterType float
          RegisterCmd ReadHolding
          Type voltage
          Instance "input-1"
          #Scale 1.0
          #Shift 0.0
        </Data>
        <Data "voltage-input-2">
          RegisterBase 2
          RegisterType float
          RegisterCmd ReadHolding
          Type voltage
          Instance "input-2"
        </Data>
        <Data "supply-temperature-1">
          RegisterBase 0
          RegisterType Int16
          RegisterCmd ReadHolding
          Type temperature
          Instance "temp-1"
        </Data>
        <Host "modbus.example.com">
          Address "192.168.0.42"
          Port    "502"
          Interval 60
          <Slave 1>
            Instance "power-supply"
            Collect  "voltage-input-1"
            Collect  "voltage-input-2"
          </Slave>
        </Host>
        <Host "localhost">
          Device "/dev/ttyUSB0"
          Baudrate 38400
          Interval 20
          <Slave 1>
            Instance "temperature"
            Collect  "supply-temperature-1"
          </Slave>
        </Host>
       <Data Name> blocks
           Data blocks define a mapping between register numbers and the
           "types" used by collectd.
           Within <Data /> blocks, the following options are allowed:
           RegisterBase Number
               Configures the base register to read from the device. If the
               option RegisterType has been set to Uint32 or Float, this and
               the next register will be read (the register number is
               increased by one).
           RegisterType
           Int16|Int32|Int64|Uint16|Uint32|UInt64|Float|Int32LE|Uint32LE|FloatLE
               Specifies what kind of data is returned by the device. This
               defaults to Uint16.  If the type is Int32, Int32LE, Uint32,
               Uint32LE, Float or FloatLE, two 16 bit registers at
               RegisterBase and RegisterBase+1 will be read and the data is
               combined into one 32 value. For Int32, Uint32 and Float the
               most significant 16 bits are in the register at RegisterBase
               and the least significant 16 bits are in the register at
               RegisterBase+1.  For Int32LE, Uint32LE, or Float32LE, the high
               and low order registers are swapped with the most significant
               16 bits in the RegisterBase+1 and the least significant 16 bits
               in RegisterBase. If the type is Int64 or UInt64, four 16 bit
               registers at RegisterBase, RegisterBase+1, RegisterBase+2 and
               RegisterBase+3 will be read and the data combined into one
               64 value.
           RegisterCmd ReadHolding|ReadInput
               Specifies register type to be collected from device. Works only
               with libmodbus 2.9.2 or higher. Defaults to ReadHolding.
           Type Type
               Specifies the "type" (data set) to use when dispatching the
               value to collectd. Currently, only data sets with exactly one
               data source are supported.
           Instance Instance
               Sets the type instance to use when dispatching the value to
               Instance. If unset, an empty string (no type instance) is used.
           Scale Value
               The values taken from device are multiplied by Value. The field
               is optional and the default is 1.0.
           Shift Value
               Value is added to values from device after they have been
               multiplied by Scale value. The field is optional and the
               default value is 0.0.
       <Host Name> blocks
           Host blocks are used to specify to which hosts to connect and what
           data to read from their "slaves". The string argument Name is used
           as hostname when dispatching the values to collectd.
           Within <Host /> blocks, the following options are allowed:
           Address Hostname
               For Modbus/TCP, specifies the node name (the actual network
               address) used to connect to the host. This may be an IP address
               or a hostname. Please note that the used libmodbus library only
               supports IPv4 at the moment.
           Port Service
               for Modbus/TCP, specifies the port used to connect to the host.
               The port can either be given as a number or as a service name.
               Please note that the Service argument must be a string, even if
               ports are given in their numerical form. Defaults to "502".
           Device Devicenode
               For Modbus/RTU, specifies the path to the serial device being
               used.
           Baudrate Baudrate
               For Modbus/RTU, specifies the baud rate of the serial device.
               Note, connections currently support only 8/N/1.
           UARTType UARTType
               For Modbus/RTU, specifies the type of the serial device.
               RS232, RS422 and RS485 are supported. Defaults to RS232.
               Available only on Linux systems with libmodbus>=2.9.4.
           Interval Interval
               Sets the interval (in seconds) in which the values will be
               collected from this host. By default the global Interval
               setting will be used.
           <Slave ID>
               Over each connection, multiple Modbus devices may be reached.
               The slave ID is used to specify which device should be
               addressed. For each device you want to query, one Slave block
               must be given.
               Within <Slave /> blocks, the following options are allowed:
               Instance Instance
                   Specify the plugin instance to use when dispatching the
                   values to collectd.  By default "slave_ID" is used.
               Collect DataName
                   Specifies which data to retrieve from the device. DataName
                   must be the same string as the Name argument passed to a
                   Data block. You can specify this option multiple times to
                   collect more than one value from a slave. At least one
                   Collect option is mandatory.
   Plugin "mqtt"
       The MQTT plugin can send metrics to MQTT (Publish blocks) and receive
       values from MQTT (Subscribe blocks).
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin mqtt>
          <Publish "name">
            Host "mqtt.example.com"
            Prefix "collectd"
          </Publish>
          <Subscribe "name">
            Host "mqtt.example.com"
            Topic "collectd/#"
          </Subscribe>
        </Plugin>
       The plugin's configuration is in Publish and/or Subscribe blocks,
       configuring the sending and receiving direction respectively. The
       plugin will register a write callback named "mqtt/name" where name is
       the string argument given to the Publish block. Both types of blocks
       share many but not all of the following options. If an option is valid
       in only one of the blocks, it will be mentioned explicitly.
       Options:
       Host Hostname
           Hostname of the MQTT broker to connect to.
       Port Service
           Port number or service name of the MQTT broker to connect to.
       User UserName
           Username used when authenticating to the MQTT broker.
       Password Password
           Password used when authenticating to the MQTT broker.
       ClientId ClientId
           MQTT client ID to use. Defaults to the hostname used by collectd.
       QoS [0-2]
           Sets the Quality of Service, with the values 0, 1 and 2 meaning:
           0   At most once
           1   At least once
           2   Exactly once
           In Publish blocks, this option determines the QoS flag set on
           outgoing messages and defaults to 0. In Subscribe blocks,
           determines the maximum QoS setting the client is going to accept
           and defaults to 2. If the QoS flag on a message is larger than the
           maximum accepted QoS of a subscriber, the message's QoS will be
           downgraded.
       Prefix Prefix (Publish only)
           This plugin will use one topic per value list which will looks like
           a path.  Prefix is used as the first path element and defaults to
           collectd.
           An example topic name would be:
            collectd/cpu-0/cpu-user
       Retain false|true (Publish only)
           Controls whether the MQTT broker will retain (keep a copy of) the
           last message sent to each topic and deliver it to new subscribers.
           Defaults to false.
       StoreRates true|false (Publish only)
           Controls whether "DERIVE" and "COUNTER" metrics are converted to a
           rate before sending. Defaults to true.
       CleanSession true|false (Subscribe only)
           Controls whether the MQTT "cleans" the session up after the
           subscriber disconnects or if it maintains the subscriber's
           subscriptions and all messages that arrive while the subscriber is
           disconnected. Defaults to true.
       Topic TopicName (Subscribe only)
           Configures the topic(s) to subscribe to. You can use the single
           level "+" and multi level "#" wildcards. Defaults to collectd/#,
           i.e. all topics beneath the collectd branch.
       CACert file
           Path to the PEM-encoded CA certificate file. Setting this option
           enables TLS communication with the MQTT broker, and as such, Port
           should be the TLS-enabled port of the MQTT broker.  This option
           enables the use of TLS.
       CertificateFile file
           Path to the PEM-encoded certificate file to use as client
           certificate when connecting to the MQTT broker.  Only valid if
           CACert and CertificateKeyFile are also set.
       CertificateKeyFile file
           Path to the unencrypted PEM-encoded key file corresponding to
           CertificateFile.  Only valid if CACert and CertificateFile are also
           set.
       TLSProtocol protocol
           If configured, this specifies the string protocol version (e.g.
           "tlsv1", "tlsv1.2") to use for the TLS connection to the broker. If
           not set a default version is used which depends on the version of
           OpenSSL the Mosquitto library was linked against.  Only valid if
           CACert is set.
       CipherSuite ciphersuite
           A string describing the ciphers available for use. See ciphers(1)
           and the "openssl ciphers" utility for more information. If unset,
           the default ciphers will be used.  Only valid if CACert is set.
   Plugin "mysql"
       The "mysql plugin" requires mysqlclient to be installed. It connects to
       one or more databases when started and keeps the connection up as long
       as possible. When the connection is interrupted for whatever reason it
       will try to re-connect. The plugin will complain loudly in case
       anything goes wrong.
       This plugin issues the MySQL "SHOW STATUS" / "SHOW GLOBAL STATUS"
       command and collects information about MySQL network traffic, executed
       statements, requests, the query cache and threads by evaluating the
       "Bytes_{received,sent}", "Com_*", "Handler_*", "Qcache_*" and
       "Threads_*" return values. Please refer to the MySQL reference manual,
       5.1.6. Server Status Variables for an explanation of these values.
       Optionally, master and slave statistics may be collected in a MySQL
       replication setup. In that case, information about the synchronization
       state of the nodes are collected by evaluating the "Position" return
       value of the "SHOW MASTER STATUS" command and the
       "Seconds_Behind_Master", "Read_Master_Log_Pos" and
       "Exec_Master_Log_Pos" return values of the "SHOW SLAVE STATUS" command.
       See the MySQL reference manual, 12.5.5.21 SHOW MASTER STATUS Syntax and
       12.5.5.31 SHOW SLAVE STATUS Syntax for details.
       Synopsis:
         <Plugin mysql>
           <Database foo>
             Host "hostname"
             User "username"
             Password "password"
             Port "3306"
             MasterStats true
             ConnectTimeout 10
             SSLKey "/path/to/key.pem"
             SSLCert "/path/to/cert.pem"
             SSLCA "/path/to/ca.pem"
             SSLCAPath "/path/to/cas/"
             SSLCipher "DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA"
           </Database>
           <Database bar>
             Alias "squeeze"
             Host "localhost"
             Socket "/var/run/mysql/mysqld.sock"
             SlaveStats true
             SlaveNotifications true
           </Database>
          <Database galera>
             Alias "galera"
             Host "localhost"
             Socket "/var/run/mysql/mysqld.sock"
             WsrepStats true
          </Database>
         </Plugin>
       A Database block defines one connection to a MySQL database. It accepts
       a single argument which specifies the name of the database. None of the
       other options are required. MySQL will use default values as documented
       in the "mysql_real_connect()" and "mysql_ssl_set()" sections in the
       MySQL reference manual.
       Alias Alias
           Alias to use as sender instead of hostname when reporting. This may
           be useful when having cryptic hostnames.
       Host Hostname
           Hostname of the database server. Defaults to localhost.
       User Username
           Username to use when connecting to the database. The user does not
           have to be granted any privileges (which is synonym to granting the
           "USAGE" privilege), unless you want to collect replication
           statistics (see MasterStats and SlaveStats below). In this case,
           the user needs the "REPLICATION CLIENT" (or "SUPER") privileges.
           Else, any existing MySQL user will do.
       Password Password
           Password needed to log into the database.
       Database Database
           Select this database. Defaults to no database which is a perfectly
           reasonable option for what this plugin does.
       Port Port
           TCP-port to connect to. The port must be specified in its numeric
           form, but it must be passed as a string nonetheless. For example:
             Port "3306"
           If Host is set to localhost (the default), this setting has no
           effect.  See the documentation for the "mysql_real_connect"
           function for details.
       Socket Socket
           Specifies the path to the UNIX domain socket of the MySQL server.
           This option only has any effect, if Host is set to localhost (the
           default).  Otherwise, use the Port option above. See the
           documentation for the "mysql_real_connect" function for details.
       InnodbStats true|false
           If enabled, metrics about the InnoDB storage engine are collected.
           Disabled by default.
       MasterStats true|false
       SlaveStats true|false
           Enable the collection of master / slave statistics in a replication
           setup. In order to be able to get access to these statistics, the
           user needs special privileges. See the User documentation above.
           Defaults to false.
       SlaveNotifications true|false
           If enabled, the plugin sends a notification if the replication
           slave I/O and / or SQL threads are not running. Defaults to false.
       WsrepStats true|false
           Enable the collection of wsrep plugin statistics, used in Master-
           Master replication setups like in MySQL Galera/Percona XtraDB
           Cluster.  User needs only privileges to execute 'SHOW GLOBAL
           STATUS'.  Defaults to false.
       ConnectTimeout Seconds
           Sets the connect timeout for the MySQL client.
       SSLKey Path
           If provided, the X509 key in PEM format.
       SSLCert Path
           If provided, the X509 cert in PEM format.
       SSLCA Path
           If provided, the CA file in PEM format (check OpenSSL docs).
       SSLCAPath Path
           If provided, the CA directory (check OpenSSL docs).
       SSLCipher String
           If provided, the SSL cipher to use.
   Plugin "netapp"
       The netapp plugin can collect various performance and capacity
       information from a NetApp filer using the NetApp API.
       Please note that NetApp has a wide line of products and a lot of
       different software versions for each of these products. This plugin was
       developed for a NetApp FAS3040 running OnTap 7.2.3P8 and tested on
       FAS2050 7.3.1.1L1, FAS3140 7.2.5.1 and FAS3020 7.2.4P9. It should work
       for most combinations of model and software version but it is very hard
       to test this.  If you have used this plugin with other models and/or
       software version, feel free to send us a mail to tell us about the
       results, even if it's just a short "It works".
       To collect these data collectd will log in to the NetApp via HTTP(S)
       and HTTP basic authentication.
       Do not use a regular user for this! Create a special collectd user with
       just the minimum of capabilities needed. The user only needs the
       "login-http-admin" capability as well as a few more depending on which
       data will be collected.  Required capabilities are documented below.
       Synopsis
        <Plugin "netapp">
          <Host "netapp1.example.com">
           Protocol      "https"
           Address       "10.0.0.1"
           Port          443
           User          "username"
           Password      "aef4Aebe"
           Interval      30
           <WAFL>
             Interval 30
             GetNameCache   true
             GetDirCache    true
             GetBufferCache true
             GetInodeCache  true
           </WAFL>
           <Disks>
             Interval 30
             GetBusy true
           </Disks>
           <VolumePerf>
             Interval 30
             GetIO      "volume0"
             IgnoreSelectedIO      false
             GetOps     "volume0"
             IgnoreSelectedOps     false
             GetLatency "volume0"
             IgnoreSelectedLatency false
           </VolumePerf>
           <VolumeUsage>
             Interval 30
             GetCapacity "vol0"
             GetCapacity "vol1"
             IgnoreSelectedCapacity false
             GetSnapshot "vol1"
             GetSnapshot "vol3"
             IgnoreSelectedSnapshot false
           </VolumeUsage>
           <Quota>
             Interval 60
           </Quota>
           <Snapvault>
             Interval 30
           </Snapvault>
           <System>
             Interval 30
             GetCPULoad     true
             GetInterfaces  true
             GetDiskOps     true
             GetDiskIO      true
           </System>
           <VFiler vfilerA>
             Interval 60
             SnapVault true
             # ...
           </VFiler>
          </Host>
        </Plugin>
       The netapp plugin accepts the following configuration options:
       Host Name
           A host block defines one NetApp filer. It will appear in collectd
           with the name you specify here which does not have to be its real
           name nor its hostname (see the Address option below).
       VFiler Name
           A VFiler block may only be used inside a host block. It accepts all
           the same options as the Host block (except for cascaded VFiler
           blocks) and will execute all NetApp API commands in the context of
           the specified VFiler(R). It will appear in collectd with the name
           you specify here which does not have to be its real name. The
           VFiler name may be specified using the VFilerName option. If this
           is not specified, it will default to the name you specify here.
           The VFiler block inherits all connection related settings from the
           surrounding Host block (which appear before the VFiler block) but
           they may be overwritten inside the VFiler block.
           This feature is useful, for example, when using a VFiler as
           SnapVault target (supported since OnTap 8.1). In that case, the
           SnapVault statistics are not available in the host filer (vfiler0)
           but only in the respective VFiler context.
       Protocol httpd|http
           The protocol collectd will use to query this host.
           Optional
           Type: string
           Default: https
           Valid options: http, https
       Address Address
           The hostname or IP address of the host.
           Optional
           Type: string
           Default: The "host" block's name.
       Port Port
           The TCP port to connect to on the host.
           Optional
           Type: integer
           Default: 80 for protocol "http", 443 for protocol "https"
       User User
       Password Password
           The username and password to use to login to the NetApp.
           Mandatory
           Type: string
       VFilerName Name
           The name of the VFiler in which context to execute API commands. If
           not specified, the name provided to the VFiler block will be used
           instead.
           Optional
           Type: string
           Default: name of the VFiler block
           Note: This option may only be used inside VFiler blocks.
       Interval Interval
           TODO
       The following options decide what kind of data will be collected. You
       can either use them as a block and fine tune various parameters inside
       this block, use them as a single statement to just accept all default
       values, or omit it to not collect any data.
       The following options are valid inside all blocks:
       Interval Seconds
           Collect the respective statistics every Seconds seconds. Defaults
           to the host specific setting.
       The System block
       This will collect various performance data about the whole system.
       Note: To get this data the collectd user needs the "api-perf-object-
       get-instances" capability.
       Interval Seconds
           Collect disk statistics every Seconds seconds.
       GetCPULoad true|false
           If you set this option to true the current CPU usage will be read.
           This will be the average usage between all CPUs in your NetApp
           without any information about individual CPUs.
           Note: These are the same values that the NetApp CLI command
           "sysstat" returns in the "CPU" field.
           Optional
           Type: boolean
           Default: true
           Result: Two value lists of type "cpu", and type instances "idle"
           and "system".
       GetInterfaces true|false
           If you set this option to true the current traffic of the network
           interfaces will be read. This will be the total traffic over all
           interfaces of your NetApp without any information about individual
           interfaces.
           Note: This is the same values that the NetApp CLI command "sysstat"
           returns in the "Net kB/s" field.
           Or is it?
           Optional
           Type: boolean
           Default: true
           Result: One value list of type "if_octects".
       GetDiskIO true|false
           If you set this option to true the current IO throughput will be
           read. This will be the total IO of your NetApp without any
           information about individual disks, volumes or aggregates.
           Note: This is the same values that the NetApp CLI command "sysstat"
           returns in the "Disk kB/s" field.
           Optional
           Type: boolean
           Default: true
           Result: One value list of type "disk_octets".
       GetDiskOps true|false
           If you set this option to true the current number of HTTP, NFS,
           CIFS, FCP, iSCSI, etc. operations will be read. This will be the
           total number of operations on your NetApp without any information
           about individual volumes or aggregates.
           Note: These are the same values that the NetApp CLI command
           "sysstat" returns in the "NFS", "CIFS", "HTTP", "FCP" and "iSCSI"
           fields.
           Optional
           Type: boolean
           Default: true
           Result: A variable number of value lists of type
           "disk_ops_complex". Each type of operation will result in one value
           list with the name of the operation as type instance.
       The WAFL block
       This will collect various performance data about the WAFL file system.
       At the moment this just means cache performance.
       Note: To get this data the collectd user needs the "api-perf-object-
       get-instances" capability.
       Note: The interface to get these values is classified as "Diagnostics"
       by NetApp. This means that it is not guaranteed to be stable even
       between minor releases.
       Interval Seconds
           Collect disk statistics every Seconds seconds.
       GetNameCache true|false
           Optional
           Type: boolean
           Default: true
           Result: One value list of type "cache_ratio" and type instance
           "name_cache_hit".
       GetDirCache true|false
           Optional
           Type: boolean
           Default: true
           Result: One value list of type "cache_ratio" and type instance
           "find_dir_hit".
       GetInodeCache true|false
           Optional
           Type: boolean
           Default: true
           Result: One value list of type "cache_ratio" and type instance
           "inode_cache_hit".
       GetBufferCache true|false
           Note: This is the same value that the NetApp CLI command "sysstat"
           returns in the "Cache hit" field.
           Optional
           Type: boolean
           Default: true
           Result: One value list of type "cache_ratio" and type instance
           "buf_hash_hit".
       The Disks block
       This will collect performance data about the individual disks in the
       NetApp.
       Note: To get this data the collectd user needs the "api-perf-object-
       get-instances" capability.
       Interval Seconds
           Collect disk statistics every Seconds seconds.
       GetBusy true|false
           If you set this option to true the busy time of all disks will be
           calculated and the value of the busiest disk in the system will be
           written.
           Note: This is the same values that the NetApp CLI command "sysstat"
           returns in the "Disk util" field. Probably.
           Optional
           Type: boolean
           Default: true
           Result: One value list of type "percent" and type instance
           "disk_busy".
       The VolumePerf block
       This will collect various performance data about the individual
       volumes.
       You can select which data to collect about which volume using the
       following options. They follow the standard ignorelist semantic.
       Note: To get this data the collectd user needs the api-perf-object-get-
       instances capability.
       Interval Seconds
           Collect volume performance data every Seconds seconds.
       GetIO Volume
       GetOps Volume
       GetLatency Volume
           Select the given volume for IO, operations or latency statistics
           collection.  The argument is the name of the volume without the
           "/vol/" prefix.
           Since the standard ignorelist functionality is used here, you can
           use a string starting and ending with a slash to specify regular
           expression matching: To match the volumes "vol0", "vol2" and
           "vol7", you can use this regular expression:
             GetIO "/^vol[027]$/"
           If no regular expression is specified, an exact match is required.
           Both, regular and exact matching are case sensitive.
           If no volume was specified at all for either of the three options,
           that data will be collected for all available volumes.
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelectedIO true|false
       IgnoreSelectedOps true|false
       IgnoreSelectedLatency true|false
           When set to true, the volumes selected for IO, operations or
           latency statistics collection will be ignored and the data will be
           collected for all other volumes.
           When set to false, data will only be collected for the specified
           volumes and all other volumes will be ignored.
           If no volumes have been specified with the above Get* options, all
           volumes will be collected regardless of the IgnoreSelected* option.
           Defaults to false
       The VolumeUsage block
       This will collect capacity data about the individual volumes.
       Note: To get this data the collectd user needs the api-volume-list-info
       capability.
       Interval Seconds
           Collect volume usage statistics every Seconds seconds.
       GetCapacity VolumeName
           The current capacity of the volume will be collected. This will
           result in two to four value lists, depending on the configuration
           of the volume. All data sources are of type "df_complex" with the
           name of the volume as plugin_instance.
           There will be type_instances "used" and "free" for the number of
           used and available bytes on the volume.  If the volume has some
           space reserved for snapshots, a type_instance "snap_reserved" will
           be available.  If the volume has SIS enabled, a type_instance
           "sis_saved" will be available. This is the number of bytes saved by
           the SIS feature.
           Note: The current NetApp API has a bug that results in this value
           being reported as a 32 bit number. This plugin tries to guess the
           correct number which works most of the time.  If you see strange
           values here, bug NetApp support to fix this.
           Repeat this option to specify multiple volumes.
       IgnoreSelectedCapacity true|false
           Specify whether to collect only the volumes selected by the
           GetCapacity option or to ignore those volumes.
           IgnoreSelectedCapacity defaults to false. However, if no
           GetCapacity option is specified at all, all capacities will be
           selected anyway.
       GetSnapshot VolumeName
           Select volumes from which to collect snapshot information.
           Usually, the space used for snapshots is included in the space
           reported as "used". If snapshot information is collected as well,
           the space used for snapshots is subtracted from the used space.
           To make things even more interesting, it is possible to reserve
           space to be used for snapshots. If the space required for snapshots
           is less than that reserved space, there is "reserved free" and
           "reserved used" space in addition to "free" and "used". If the
           space required for snapshots exceeds the reserved space, that part
           allocated in the normal space is subtracted from the "used" space
           again.
           Repeat this option to specify multiple volumes.
       IgnoreSelectedSnapshot
           Specify whether to collect only the volumes selected by the
           GetSnapshot option or to ignore those volumes.
           IgnoreSelectedSnapshot defaults to false. However, if no
           GetSnapshot option is specified at all, all capacities will be
           selected anyway.
       The Quota block
       This will collect (tree) quota statistics (used disk space and number
       of used files). This mechanism is useful to get usage information for
       single qtrees.  In case the quotas are not used for any other purpose,
       an entry similar to the following in "/etc/quotas" would be sufficient:
         /vol/volA/some_qtree tree - - - - -
       After adding the entry, issue "quota on -w volA" on the NetApp filer.
       Interval Seconds
           Collect SnapVault(R) statistics every Seconds seconds.
       The SnapVault block
       This will collect statistics about the time and traffic of SnapVault(R)
       transfers.
       Interval Seconds
           Collect SnapVault(R) statistics every Seconds seconds.
   Plugin "netlink"
       The "netlink" plugin uses a netlink socket to query the Linux kernel
       about statistics of various interface and routing aspects.
       Interface Interface
       VerboseInterface Interface
           Instruct the plugin to collect interface statistics. This is
           basically the same as the statistics provided by the "interface"
           plugin (see above) but potentially much more detailed.
           When configuring with Interface only the basic statistics will be
           collected, namely octets, packets, and errors. These statistics are
           collected by the "interface" plugin, too, so using both at the same
           time is no benefit.
           When configured with VerboseInterface all counters except the basic
           ones will be collected, so that no data needs to be collected twice
           if you use the "interface" plugin.  This includes dropped packets,
           received multicast packets, collisions and a whole zoo of
           differentiated RX and TX errors. You can try the following command
           to get an idea of what awaits you:
             ip -s -s link list
           If Interface is All, all interfaces will be selected.
           It is possible to use regular expressions to match interface names,
           if the name is surrounded by /.../ and collectd was compiled with
           support for regexps. This is useful if there's a need to collect
           (or ignore) data for a group of interfaces that are similarly
           named, without the need to explicitly list all of them (especially
           useful if the list is dynamic).  Examples:
            Interface "/^eth/"
            Interface "/^ens[1-4]$|^enp[0-3]$/"
            VerboseInterface "/^eno[0-9]+/"
           This will match all interfaces with names starting with eth, all
           interfaces in range ens1 - ens4 and enp0 - enp3, and for verbose
           metrics all interfaces with names starting with eno followed by at
           least one digit.
       QDisc Interface [QDisc]
       Class Interface [Class]
       Filter Interface [Filter]
           Collect the octets and packets that pass a certain qdisc, class or
           filter.
           QDiscs and classes are identified by their type and handle (or
           classid).  Filters don't necessarily have a handle, therefore the
           parent's handle is used.  The notation used in collectd differs
           from that used in tc(1) in that it doesn't skip the major or minor
           number if it's zero and doesn't print special ids by their name.
           So, for example, a qdisc may be identified by "pfifo_fast-1:0" even
           though the minor number of all qdiscs is zero and thus not
           displayed by tc(1).
           If QDisc, Class, or Filter is given without the second argument,
           i. .e. without an identifier, all qdiscs, classes, or filters that
           are associated with that interface will be collected.
           Since a filter itself doesn't necessarily have a handle, the
           parent's handle is used. This may lead to problems when more than
           one filter is attached to a qdisc or class. This isn't nice, but we
           don't know how this could be done any better. If you have a idea,
           please don't hesitate to tell us.
           As with the Interface option you can specify All as the interface,
           meaning all interfaces.
           Here are some examples to help you understand the above text more
           easily:
             <Plugin netlink>
               VerboseInterface "All"
               QDisc "eth0" "pfifo_fast-1:0"
               QDisc "ppp0"
               Class "ppp0" "htb-1:10"
               Filter "ppp0" "u32-1:0"
             </Plugin>
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected
           The behavior is the same as with all other similar plugins: If
           nothing is selected at all, everything is collected. If some things
           are selected using the options described above, only these
           statistics are collected. If you set IgnoreSelected to true, this
           behavior is inverted, i. e. the specified statistics will not be
           collected.
       CollectVFStats true|false
           Allow plugin to collect VF's statistics if there are Virtual
           Functions available for interfaces specified in Interface or
           VerboseInterface.  All available stats are collected no matter if
           parent interface is set by Interface or VerboseInterface.
   Plugin "network"
       The Network plugin sends data to a remote instance of collectd,
       receives data from a remote instance, or both at the same time. Data
       which has been received from the network is usually not transmitted
       again, but this can be activated, see the Forward option below.
       The default IPv6 multicast group is "ff18::efc0:4a42". The default IPv4
       multicast group is 239.192.74.66. The default UDP port is 25826.
       Both, Server and Listen can be used as single option or as block. When
       used as block, given options are valid for this socket only. The
       following example will export the metrics twice: Once to an "internal"
       server (without encryption and signing) and one to an external server
       (with cryptographic signature):
        <Plugin "network">
          # Export to an internal server
          # (demonstrates usage without additional options)
          Server "collectd.internal.tld"
          # Export to an external server
          # (demonstrates usage with signature options)
          <Server "collectd.external.tld">
            SecurityLevel "sign"
            Username "myhostname"
            Password "ohl0eQue"
          </Server>
        </Plugin>
       <Server Host [Port]>
           The Server statement/block sets the server to send datagrams to.
           The statement may occur multiple times to send each datagram to
           multiple destinations.
           The argument Host may be a hostname, an IPv4 address or an IPv6
           address. The optional second argument specifies a port number or a
           service name. If not given, the default, 25826, is used.
           The following options are recognized within Server blocks:
           SecurityLevel Encrypt|Sign|None
               Set the security you require for network communication. When
               the security level has been set to Encrypt, data sent over the
               network will be encrypted using AES-256. The integrity of
               encrypted packets is ensured using SHA-1. When set to Sign,
               transmitted data is signed using the HMAC-SHA-256 message
               authentication code. When set to None, data is sent without any
               security.
               This feature is only available if the network plugin was linked
               with libgcrypt.
           Username Username
               Sets the username to transmit. This is used by the server to
               lookup the password. See AuthFile below. All security levels
               except None require this setting.
               This feature is only available if the network plugin was linked
               with libgcrypt.
           Password Password
               Sets a password (shared secret) for this socket. All security
               levels except None require this setting.
               This feature is only available if the network plugin was linked
               with libgcrypt.
           Interface Interface name
               Set the outgoing interface for IP packets. This applies at
               least to IPv6 packets and if possible to IPv4. If this option
               is not applicable, undefined or a non-existent interface name
               is specified, the default behavior is to let the kernel choose
               the appropriate interface. Be warned that the manual selection
               of an interface for unicast traffic is only necessary in rare
               cases.
           BindAddress IP Address
               Set the outgoing IP address for IP packets. This option can be
               used instead of the Interface option to explicitly define the
               IP address which will be used to send Packets to the remote
               server.
           ResolveInterval Seconds
               Sets the interval at which to re-resolve the DNS for the Host.
               This is useful to force a regular DNS lookup to support a high
               availability setup. If not specified, re-resolves are never
               attempted.
       <Listen Host [Port]>
           The Listen statement sets the interfaces to bind to. When multiple
           statements are found the daemon will bind to multiple interfaces.
           The argument Host may be a hostname, an IPv4 address or an IPv6
           address. If the argument is a multicast address the daemon will
           join that multicast group.  The optional second argument specifies
           a port number or a service name. If not given, the default, 25826,
           is used.
           The following options are recognized within "<Listen>" blocks:
           SecurityLevel Encrypt|Sign|None
               Set the security you require for network communication. When
               the security level has been set to Encrypt, only encrypted data
               will be accepted. The integrity of encrypted packets is ensured
               using SHA-1. When set to Sign, only signed and encrypted data
               is accepted. When set to None, all data will be accepted. If an
               AuthFile option was given (see below), encrypted data is
               decrypted if possible.
               This feature is only available if the network plugin was linked
               with libgcrypt.
           AuthFile Filename
               Sets a file in which usernames are mapped to passwords. These
               passwords are used to verify signatures and to decrypt
               encrypted network packets. If SecurityLevel is set to None,
               this is optional. If given, signed data is verified and
               encrypted packets are decrypted. Otherwise, signed data is
               accepted without checking the signature and encrypted data
               cannot be decrypted.  For the other security levels this option
               is mandatory.
               The file format is very simple: Each line consists of a
               username followed by a colon and any number of spaces followed
               by the password. To demonstrate, an example file could look
               like this:
                 user0: foo
                 user1: bar
               Each time a packet is received, the modification time of the
               file is checked using stat(2). If the file has been changed,
               the contents is re-read. While the file is being read, it is
               locked using fcntl(2).
           Interface Interface name
               Set the incoming interface for IP packets explicitly. This
               applies at least to IPv6 packets and if possible to IPv4. If
               this option is not applicable, undefined or a non-existent
               interface name is specified, the default behavior is, to let
               the kernel choose the appropriate interface. Thus incoming
               traffic gets only accepted, if it arrives on the given
               interface.
       TimeToLive 1-255
           Set the time-to-live of sent packets. This applies to all, unicast
           and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6 packets. The default is to not
           change this value.  That means that multicast packets will be sent
           with a TTL of 1 (one) on most operating systems.
       MaxPacketSize 1024-65535
           Set the maximum size for datagrams received over the network.
           Packets larger than this will be truncated. Defaults to 1452 bytes,
           which is the maximum payload size that can be transmitted in one
           Ethernet frame using IPv6 / UDP.
           On the server side, this limit should be set to the largest value
           used on any client. Likewise, the value on the client must not be
           larger than the value on the server, or data will be lost.
           Compatibility: Versions prior to version 4.8 used a fixed sized
           buffer of 1024 bytes. Versions 4.8, 4.9 and 4.10 used a default
           value of 1024 bytes to avoid problems when sending data to an older
           server.
       Forward true|false
           If set to true, write packets that were received via the network
           plugin to the sending sockets. This should only be activated when
           the Listen- and Server-statements differ. Otherwise packets may be
           send multiple times to the same multicast group. While this results
           in more network traffic than necessary it's not a huge problem
           since the plugin has a duplicate detection, so the values will not
           loop.
       ReportStats true|false
           The network plugin cannot only receive and send statistics, it can
           also create statistics about itself. Collectd data included the
           number of received and sent octets and packets, the length of the
           receive queue and the number of values handled. When set to true,
           the Network plugin will make these statistics available. Defaults
           to false.
   Plugin "nfs"
       The nfs plugin collects information about the usage of the Network File
       System (NFS). It counts the number of procedure calls for each
       procedure, grouped by version and whether the system runs as server or
       client.
       It is possibly to omit metrics for a specific NFS version by setting
       one or more of the following options to false (all of them default to
       true).
       ReportV2 true|false
       ReportV3 true|false
       ReportV4 true|false
   Plugin "nginx"
       This plugin collects the number of connections and requests handled by
       the "nginx daemon" (speak: engine X), a HTTP and mail server/proxy. It
       queries the page provided by the "ngx_http_stub_status_module" module,
       which isn't compiled by default. Please refer to
       <http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxStubStatusModule>; for more
       information on how to compile and configure nginx and this module.
       The following options are accepted by the "nginx plugin":
       URL http://host/nginx_status
           Sets the URL of the "ngx_http_stub_status_module" output.
       User Username
           Optional user name needed for authentication.
       Password Password
           Optional password needed for authentication.
       VerifyPeer true|false
           Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
           <http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html>; for details. Enabled by
           default.
       VerifyHost true|false
           Enable or disable peer host name verification. If enabled, the
           plugin checks if the "Common Name" or a "Subject Alternate Name"
           field of the SSL certificate matches the host name provided by the
           URL option. If this identity check fails, the connection is
           aborted. Obviously, only works when connecting to a SSL enabled
           server. Enabled by default.
       CACert File
           File that holds one or more SSL certificates. If you want to use
           HTTPS you will possibly need this option. What CA certificates come
           bundled with "libcurl" and are checked by default depends on the
           distribution you use.
       Timeout Milliseconds
           The Timeout option sets the overall timeout for HTTP requests to
           URL, in milliseconds. By default, the configured Interval is used
           to set the timeout.
   Plugin "notify_desktop"
       This plugin sends a desktop notification to a notification daemon, as
       defined in the Desktop Notification Specification. To actually display
       the notifications, notification-daemon is required and collectd has to
       be able to access the X server (i. e., the "DISPLAY" and "XAUTHORITY"
       environment variables have to be set correctly) and the D-Bus message
       bus.
       The Desktop Notification Specification can be found at
       <http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/>;.
       OkayTimeout timeout
       WarningTimeout timeout
       FailureTimeout timeout
           Set the timeout, in milliseconds, after which to expire the
           notification for "OKAY", "WARNING" and "FAILURE" severities
           respectively. If zero has been specified, the displayed
           notification will not be closed at all - the user has to do so
           herself. These options default to 5000. If a negative number has
           been specified, the default is used as well.
   Plugin "notify_email"
       The notify_email plugin uses the ESMTP library to send notifications to
       a configured email address.
       libESMTP is available from <http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/>;.
       Available configuration options:
       From Address
           Email address from which the emails should appear to come from.
           Default: "root@localhost"
       Recipient Address
           Configures the email address(es) to which the notifications should
           be mailed.  May be repeated to send notifications to multiple
           addresses.
           At least one Recipient must be present for the plugin to work
           correctly.
       SMTPServer Hostname
           Hostname of the SMTP server to connect to.
           Default: "localhost"
       SMTPPort Port
           TCP port to connect to.
           Default: 25
       SMTPUser Username
           Username for ASMTP authentication. Optional.
       SMTPPassword Password
           Password for ASMTP authentication. Optional.
       Subject Subject
           Subject-template to use when sending emails. There must be exactly
           two string-placeholders in the subject, given in the standard
           printf(3) syntax, i. e. %s. The first will be replaced with the
           severity, the second with the hostname.
           Default: "Collectd notify: %s@%s"
   Plugin "notify_nagios"
       The notify_nagios plugin writes notifications to Nagios' command file
       as a passive service check result.
       Available configuration options:
       CommandFile Path
           Sets the command file to write to. Defaults to
           /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd.
   Plugin "ntpd"
       The "ntpd" plugin collects per-peer ntp data such as time offset and
       time dispersion.
       For talking to ntpd, it mimics what the ntpdc control program does on
       the wire - using mode 7 specific requests. This mode is deprecated with
       newer ntpd releases (4.2.7p230 and later). For the "ntpd" plugin to
       work correctly with them, the ntp daemon must be explicitly configured
       to enable mode 7 (which is disabled by default). Refer to the
       ntp.conf(5) manual page for details.
       Available configuration options for the "ntpd" plugin:
       Host Hostname
           Hostname of the host running ntpd. Defaults to localhost.
       Port Port
           UDP-Port to connect to. Defaults to 123.
       ReverseLookups true|false
           Sets whether or not to perform reverse lookups on peers. Since the
           name or IP-address may be used in a filename it is recommended to
           disable reverse lookups. The default is to do reverse lookups to
           preserve backwards compatibility, though.
       IncludeUnitID true|false
           When a peer is a refclock, include the unit ID in the type
           instance.  Defaults to false for backward compatibility.
           If two refclock peers use the same driver and this is false, the
           plugin will try to write simultaneous measurements from both to the
           same type instance.  This will result in error messages in the log
           and only one set of measurements making it through.
   Plugin "nut"
       UPS upsname@hostname[:port]
           Add a UPS to collect data from. The format is identical to the one
           accepted by upsc(8).
       ForceSSL true|false
           Stops connections from falling back to unsecured if an SSL
           connection cannot be established. Defaults to false if undeclared.
       VerifyPeer true|false
           If set to true, requires a CAPath be provided. Will use the CAPath
           to find certificates to use as Trusted Certificates to validate a
           upsd server certificate.  If validation of the upsd server
           certificate fails, the connection will not be established. If
           ForceSSL is undeclared or set to false, setting VerifyPeer to true
           will override and set ForceSSL to true.
       CAPath I/path/to/certs/folder
           If VerifyPeer is set to true, this is required. Otherwise this is
           ignored.  The folder pointed at must contain certificate(s) named
           according to their hash.  Ex: XXXXXXXX.Y where X is the hash value
           of a cert and Y is 0. If name collisions occur because two
           different certs have the same hash value, Y can be  incremented in
           order to avoid conflict. To create a symbolic link to a certificate
           the following command can be used from within the directory where
           the cert resides:
           "ln -s some.crt ./$(openssl x509 -hash -noout -in some.crt).0"
           Alternatively, the package openssl-perl provides a command
           "c_rehash" that will generate links like the one described above
           for ALL certs in a given folder.  Example usage: "c_rehash
           /path/to/certs/folder"
       ConnectTimeout Milliseconds
           The ConnectTimeout option sets the connect timeout, in
           milliseconds.  By default, the configured Interval is used to set
           the timeout.
   Plugin "olsrd"
       The olsrd plugin connects to the TCP port opened by the txtinfo plugin
       of the Optimized Link State Routing daemon and reads information about
       the current state of the meshed network.
       The following configuration options are understood:
       Host Host
           Connect to Host. Defaults to "localhost".
       Port Port
           Specifies the port to connect to. This must be a string, even if
           you give the port as a number rather than a service name. Defaults
           to "2006".
       CollectLinks No|Summary|Detail
           Specifies what information to collect about links, i. e. direct
           connections of the daemon queried. If set to No, no information is
           collected. If set to Summary, the number of links and the average
           of all link quality (LQ) and neighbor link quality (NLQ) values is
           calculated.  If set to Detail LQ and NLQ are collected per link.
           Defaults to Detail.
       CollectRoutes No|Summary|Detail
           Specifies what information to collect about routes of the daemon
           queried. If set to No, no information is collected. If set to
           Summary, the number of routes and the average metric and ETX is
           calculated. If set to Detail metric and ETX are collected per
           route.
           Defaults to Summary.
       CollectTopology No|Summary|Detail
           Specifies what information to collect about the global topology. If
           set to No, no information is collected. If set to Summary, the
           number of links in the entire topology and the average link quality
           (LQ) is calculated.  If set to Detail LQ and NLQ are collected for
           each link in the entire topology.
           Defaults to Summary.
   Plugin "onewire"
       EXPERIMENTAL! See notes below.
       The "onewire" plugin uses the owcapi library from the owfs project
       <http://owfs.org/>; to read sensors connected via the onewire bus.
       It can be used in two possible modes - standard or advanced.
       In the standard mode only temperature sensors (sensors with the family
       code 10, 22 and 28 - e.g. DS1820, DS18S20, DS1920) can be read. If you
       have other sensors you would like to have included, please send a sort
       request to the mailing list. You can select sensors to be read or to be
       ignored depending on the option IgnoreSelected). When no list is
       provided the whole bus is walked and all sensors are read.
       Hubs (the DS2409 chips) are working, but read the note, why this plugin
       is experimental, below.
       In the advanced mode you can configure any sensor to be read (only
       numerical value) using full OWFS path (e.g.
       "/uncached/10.F10FCA000800/temperature").  In this mode you have to
       list all the sensors. Neither default bus walk nor IgnoreSelected are
       used here. Address and type (file) is extracted from the path
       automatically and should produce compatible structure with the
       "standard" mode (basically the path is expected as for example
       "/uncached/10.F10FCA000800/temperature" where it would extract address
       part "F10FCA000800" and the rest after the slash is considered the type
       - here "temperature").  There are two advantages to this mode - you can
       access virtually any sensor (not just temperature), select whether to
       use cached or directly read values and it is slighlty faster. The
       downside is more complex configuration.
       The two modes are distinguished automatically by the format of the
       address.  It is not possible to mix the two modes. Once a full path is
       detected in any Sensor then the whole addressing (all sensors) is
       considered to be this way (and as standard addresses will fail parsing
       they will be ignored).
       Device Device
           Sets the device to read the values from. This can either be a
           "real" hardware device, such as a serial port or an USB port, or
           the address of the owserver(1) socket, usually localhost:4304.
           Though the documentation claims to automatically recognize the
           given address format, with version 2.7p4 we had to specify the type
           explicitly. So with that version, the following configuration
           worked for us:
             <Plugin onewire>
               Device "-s localhost:4304"
             </Plugin>
           This directive is required and does not have a default value.
       Sensor Sensor
           In the standard mode selects sensors to collect or to ignore
           (depending on IgnoreSelected, see below). Sensors are specified
           without the family byte at the beginning, so you have to use for
           example "F10FCA000800", and not include the leading 10. family byte
           and point.  When no Sensor is configured the whole Onewire bus is
           walked and all supported sensors (see above) are read.
           In the advanced mode the Sensor specifies full OWFS path - e.g.
           "/uncached/10.F10FCA000800/temperature" (or when cached values are
           OK "/10.F10FCA000800/temperature"). IgnoreSelected is not used.
           As there can be multiple devices on the bus you can list multiple
           sensor (use multiple Sensor elements).
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           If no configuration is given, the onewire plugin will collect data
           from all sensors found. This may not be practical, especially if
           sensors are added and removed regularly. Sometimes, however, it's
           easier/preferred to collect only specific sensors or all sensors
           except a few specified ones. This option enables you to do that: By
           setting IgnoreSelected to true the effect of Sensor is inverted:
           All selected interfaces are ignored and all other interfaces are
           collected.
           Used only in the standard mode - see above.
       Interval Seconds
           Sets the interval in which all sensors should be read. If not
           specified, the global Interval setting is used.
       EXPERIMENTAL! The "onewire" plugin is experimental, because it doesn't
       yet work with big setups. It works with one sensor being attached to
       one controller, but as soon as you throw in a couple more senors and
       maybe a hub or two, reading all values will take more than ten seconds
       (the default interval). We will probably add some separate thread for
       reading the sensors and some cache or something like that, but it's not
       done yet. We will try to maintain backwards compatibility in the
       future, but we can't promise. So in short: If it works for you: Great!
       But keep in mind that the config might change, though this is unlikely.
       Oh, and if you want to help improving this plugin, just send a short
       notice to the mailing list. Thanks :)
   Plugin "openldap"
       To use the "openldap" plugin you first need to configure the OpenLDAP
       server correctly. The backend database "monitor" needs to be loaded and
       working. See slapd-monitor(5) for the details.
       The configuration of the "openldap" plugin consists of one or more
       Instance blocks. Each block requires one string argument as the
       instance name. For example:
        <Plugin "openldap">
          <Instance "foo">
            URL "ldap://localhost/"
          </Instance>
          <Instance "bar">
            URL "ldaps://localhost/"
          </Instance>
        </Plugin>
       The instance name will be used as the plugin instance. To emulate the
       old (version 4) behavior, you can use an empty string (""). In order
       for the plugin to work correctly, each instance name must be unique.
       This is not enforced by the plugin and it is your responsibility to
       ensure it is.
       The following options are accepted within each Instance block:
       URL ldap://host/binddn
           Sets the URL to use to connect to the OpenLDAP server. This option
           is mandatory.
       BindDN BindDN
           Name in the form of an LDAP distinguished name intended to be used
           for authentication. Defaults to empty string to establish an
           anonymous authorization.
       Password Password
           Password for simple bind authentication. If this option is not set,
           unauthenticated bind operation is used.
       StartTLS true|false
           Defines whether TLS must be used when connecting to the OpenLDAP
           server.  Disabled by default.
       VerifyHost true|false
           Enables or disables peer host name verification. If enabled, the
           plugin checks if the "Common Name" or a "Subject Alternate Name"
           field of the SSL certificate matches the host name provided by the
           URL option. If this identity check fails, the connection is
           aborted. Enabled by default.
       CACert File
           File that holds one or more SSL certificates. If you want to use
           TLS/SSL you may possibly need this option. What CA certificates are
           checked by default depends on the distribution you use and can be
           changed with the usual ldap client configuration mechanisms. See
           ldap.conf(5) for the details.
       Timeout Seconds
           Sets the timeout value for ldap operations, in seconds. By default,
           the configured Interval is used to set the timeout. Use -1 to
           disable (infinite timeout).
       Version Version
           An integer which sets the LDAP protocol version number to use when
           connecting to the OpenLDAP server. Defaults to 3 for using LDAPv3.
   Plugin "openvpn"
       The OpenVPN plugin reads a status file maintained by OpenVPN and
       gathers traffic statistics about connected clients.
       To set up OpenVPN to write to the status file periodically, use the
       --status option of OpenVPN.
       So, in a nutshell you need:
         openvpn $OTHER_OPTIONS \
           --status "/var/run/openvpn-status" 10
       Available options:
       StatusFile File
           Specifies the location of the status file.
       ImprovedNamingSchema true|false
           When enabled, the filename of the status file will be used as
           plugin instance and the client's "common name" will be used as type
           instance. This is required when reading multiple status files.
           Enabling this option is recommended, but to maintain backwards
           compatibility this option is disabled by default.
       CollectCompression true|false
           Sets whether or not statistics about the compression used by
           OpenVPN should be collected. This information is only available in
           single mode. Enabled by default.
       CollectIndividualUsers true|false
           Sets whether or not traffic information is collected for each
           connected client individually. If set to false, currently no
           traffic data is collected at all because aggregating this data in a
           save manner is tricky. Defaults to true.
       CollectUserCount true|false
           When enabled, the number of currently connected clients or users is
           collected.  This is especially interesting when
           CollectIndividualUsers is disabled, but can be configured
           independently from that option. Defaults to false.
   Plugin "oracle"
       The "oracle" plugin uses the OracleX Call Interface (OCI) to connect to
       an OracleX Database and lets you execute SQL statements there. It is
       very similar to the "dbi" plugin, because it was written around the
       same time. See the "dbi" plugin's documentation above for details.
         <Plugin oracle>
           <Query "out_of_stock">
             Statement "SELECT category, COUNT(*) AS value FROM products WHERE in_stock = 0 GROUP BY category"
             <Result>
               Type "gauge"
               # InstancePrefix "foo"
               InstancesFrom "category"
               ValuesFrom "value"
             </Result>
           </Query>
           <Database "product_information">
             #Plugin "warehouse"
             ConnectID "db01"
             Username "oracle"
             Password "secret"
             Query "out_of_stock"
           </Database>
         </Plugin>
       Query blocks
       The Query blocks are handled identically to the Query blocks of the
       "dbi" plugin. Please see its documentation above for details on how to
       specify queries.
       Database blocks
       Database blocks define a connection to a database and which queries
       should be sent to that database. Each database needs a "name" as string
       argument in the starting tag of the block. This name will be used as
       "PluginInstance" in the values submitted to the daemon. Other than
       that, that name is not used.
       Plugin Plugin
           Use Plugin as the plugin name when submitting query results from
           this Database. Defaults to "oracle".
       ConnectID ID
           Defines the "database alias" or "service name" to connect to.
           Usually, these names are defined in the file named
           "$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora".
       Host Host
           Hostname to use when dispatching values for this database. Defaults
           to using the global hostname of the collectd instance.
       Username Username
           Username used for authentication.
       Password Password
           Password used for authentication.
       Query QueryName
           Associates the query named QueryName with this database connection.
           The query needs to be defined before this statement, i. e. all
           query blocks you want to refer to must be placed above the database
           block you want to refer to them from.
   Plugin "ovs_events"
       The ovs_events plugin monitors the link status of Open vSwitch (OVS)
       connected interfaces, dispatches the values to collectd and sends the
       notification whenever the link state change occurs. This plugin uses
       OVS database to get a link state change notification.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "ovs_events">
          Port 6640
          Address "127.0.0.1"
          Socket "/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock"
          Interfaces "br0" "veth0"
          SendNotification true
          DispatchValues false
        </Plugin>
       The plugin provides the following configuration options:
       Address node
           The address of the OVS DB server JSON-RPC interface used by the
           plugin. To enable the interface, OVS DB daemon should be running
           with "--remote=ptcp:" option. See ovsdb-server(1) for more details.
           The option may be either network hostname, IPv4 numbers-and-dots
           notation or IPv6 hexadecimal string format. Defaults to
           "localhost".
       Port service
           TCP-port to connect to. Either a service name or a port number may
           be given.  Defaults to 6640.
       Socket path
           The UNIX domain socket path of OVS DB server JSON-RPC interface
           used by the plugin. To enable the interface, the OVS DB daemon
           should be running with "--remote=punix:" option. See
           ovsdb-server(1) for more details. If this option is set, Address
           and Port options are ignored.
       Interfaces [ifname ...]
           List of interface names to be monitored by this plugin. If this
           option is not specified or is empty then all OVS connected
           interfaces on all bridges are monitored.
           Default: empty (all interfaces on all bridges are monitored)
       SendNotification true|false
           If set to true, OVS link notifications (interface status and OVS DB
           connection terminate) are sent to collectd. Default value is true.
       DispatchValues true|false
           Dispatch the OVS DB interface link status value with configured
           plugin interval.  Defaults to false. Please note, if
           SendNotification and DispatchValues options are false, no OVS
           information will be provided by the plugin.
       Note: By default, the global interval setting is used within which to
       retrieve the OVS link status. To configure a plugin-specific interval,
       please use Interval option of the OVS LoadPlugin block settings. For
       milliseconds simple divide the time by 1000 for example if the desired
       interval is 50ms, set interval to 0.05.
   Plugin "ovs_stats"
       The ovs_stats plugin collects statistics of OVS connected interfaces.
       This plugin uses OVSDB management protocol (RFC7047) monitor mechanism
       to get statistics from OVSDB
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "ovs_stats">
          Port 6640
          Address "127.0.0.1"
          Socket "/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock"
          Bridges "br0" "br_ext"
          InterfaceStats false
        </Plugin>
       The plugin provides the following configuration options:
       Address node
           The address of the OVS DB server JSON-RPC interface used by the
           plugin. To enable the interface, OVS DB daemon should be running
           with "--remote=ptcp:" option. See ovsdb-server(1) for more details.
           The option may be either network hostname, IPv4 numbers-and-dots
           notation or IPv6 hexadecimal string format. Defaults to
           "localhost".
       Port service
           TCP-port to connect to. Either a service name or a port number may
           be given.  Defaults to 6640.
       Socket path
           The UNIX domain socket path of OVS DB server JSON-RPC interface
           used by the plugin. To enable the interface, the OVS DB daemon
           should be running with "--remote=punix:" option. See
           ovsdb-server(1) for more details. If this option is set, Address
           and Port options are ignored.
       Bridges [brname ...]
           List of OVS bridge names to be monitored by this plugin. If this
           option is omitted or is empty then all OVS bridges will be
           monitored.
           Default: empty (monitor all bridges)
       InterfaceStats false|true
           Indicates that the plugin should gather statistics for individual
           interfaces in addition to ports.  This can be useful when
           monitoring an OVS setup with bond ports, where you might wish to
           know individual statistics for the interfaces included in the
           bonds.  Defaults to false.
   Plugin "pcie_errors"
       The pcie_errors plugin collects PCI Express errors from Device Status
       in Capability structure and from Advanced Error Reporting Extended
       Capability where available.  At every read it polls config space of PCI
       Express devices and dispatches notification for every error that is
       set. It checks for new errors at every read.  The device is indicated
       in plugin_instance according to format "domain:bus:dev.fn".  Errors are
       divided into categories indicated by type_instance: "correctable", and
       for uncorrectable errors "non_fatal" or "fatal".  Fatal errors are
       reported as NOTIF_FAILURE and all others as NOTIF_WARNING.
       Synopsis:
         <Plugin "pcie_errors">
           Source "sysfs"
           AccessDir "/sys/bus/pci"
           ReportMasked false
           PersistentNotifications false
         </Plugin>
       Options:
       Source sysfs|proc
           Use sysfs or proc to read data from /sysfs or /proc.  The default
           value is sysfs.
       AccessDir dir
           Directory used to access device config space. It is optional and
           defaults to /sys/bus/pci for sysfs and to /proc/bus/pci for proc.
       ReportMasked false|true
           If true plugin will notify about errors that are set to masked in
           Error Mask register.  Such errors are not reported to the PCI
           Express Root Complex. Defaults to false.
       PersistentNotifications false|true
           If false plugin will dispatch notification only on set/clear of
           error.  The ones already reported will be ignored. Defaults to
           false.
   Plugin "perl"
       This plugin embeds a Perl-interpreter into collectd and provides an
       interface to collectd's plugin system. See collectd-perl(5) for its
       documentation.
   Plugin "pinba"
       The Pinba plugin receives profiling information from Pinba, an
       extension for the PHP interpreter. At the end of executing a script,
       i.e. after a PHP-based webpage has been delivered, the extension will
       send a UDP packet containing timing information, peak memory usage and
       so on. The plugin will wait for such packets, parse them and account
       the provided information, which is then dispatched to the daemon once
       per interval.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin pinba>
          Address "::0"
          Port "30002"
          # Overall statistics for the website.
          <View "www-total">
            Server "www.example.com"
          </View>
          # Statistics for www-a only
          <View "www-a">
            Host "www-a.example.com"
            Server "www.example.com"
          </View>
          # Statistics for www-b only
          <View "www-b">
            Host "www-b.example.com"
            Server "www.example.com"
          </View>
        </Plugin>
       The plugin provides the following configuration options:
       Address Node
           Configures the address used to open a listening socket. By default,
           plugin will bind to the any address "::0".
       Port Service
           Configures the port (service) to bind to. By default the default
           Pinba port "30002" will be used. The option accepts service names
           in addition to port numbers and thus requires a string argument.
       <View Name> block
           The packets sent by the Pinba extension include the hostname of the
           server, the server name (the name of the virtual host) and the
           script that was executed.  Using View blocks it is possible to
           separate the data into multiple groups to get more meaningful
           statistics. Each packet is added to all matching groups, so that a
           packet may be accounted for more than once.
           Host Host
               Matches the hostname of the system the webserver / script is
               running on. This will contain the result of the gethostname(2)
               system call. If not configured, all hostnames will be accepted.
           Server Server
               Matches the name of the virtual host, i.e. the contents of the
               $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] variable when within PHP. If not
               configured, all server names will be accepted.
           Script Script
               Matches the name of the script name, i.e. the contents of the
               $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] variable when within PHP. If not
               configured, all script names will be accepted.
   Plugin "ping"
       The Ping plugin starts a new thread which sends ICMP "ping" packets to
       the configured hosts periodically and measures the network latency.
       Whenever the "read" function of the plugin is called, it submits the
       average latency, the standard deviation and the drop rate for each
       host.
       Available configuration options:
       Host IP-address
           Host to ping periodically. This option may be repeated several
           times to ping multiple hosts.
       Interval Seconds
           Sets the interval in which to send ICMP echo packets to the
           configured hosts.  This is not the interval in which metrics are
           read from the plugin but the interval in which the hosts are
           "pinged". Therefore, the setting here should be smaller than or
           equal to the global Interval setting. Fractional times, such as
           "1.24" are allowed.
           Default: 1.0
       Timeout Seconds
           Time to wait for a response from the host to which an ICMP packet
           had been sent. If a reply was not received after Seconds seconds,
           the host is assumed to be down or the packet to be dropped. This
           setting must be smaller than the Interval setting above for the
           plugin to work correctly. Fractional arguments are accepted.
           Default: 0.9
       TTL 0-255
           Sets the Time-To-Live of generated ICMP packets.
       Size size
           Sets the size of the data payload in ICMP packet to specified size
           (it will be filled with regular ASCII pattern). If not set, default
           56 byte long string is used so that the packet size of an ICMPv4
           packet is exactly 64 bytes, similar to the behaviour of normal
           ping(1) command.
       SourceAddress host
           Sets the source address to use. host may either be a numerical
           network address or a network hostname.
       AddressFamily af
           Sets the address family to use. af may be "any", "ipv4" or "ipv6".
           This option will be ignored if you set a SourceAddress.
       Device name
           Sets the outgoing network device to be used. name has to specify an
           interface name (e. g. "eth0"). This might not be supported by all
           operating systems.
       MaxMissed Packets
           Trigger a DNS resolve after the host has not replied to Packets
           packets. This enables the use of dynamic DNS services (like
           dyndns.org) with the ping plugin.
           Default: -1 (disabled)
   Plugin "postgresql"
       The "postgresql" plugin queries statistics from PostgreSQL databases.
       It keeps a persistent connection to all configured databases and tries
       to reconnect if the connection has been interrupted. A database is
       configured by specifying a Database block as described below. The
       default statistics are collected from PostgreSQL's statistics collector
       which thus has to be enabled for this plugin to work correctly. This
       should usually be the case by default. See the section "The Statistics
       Collector" of the PostgreSQL Documentation for details.
       By specifying custom database queries using a Query block as described
       below, you may collect any data that is available from some PostgreSQL
       database. This way, you are able to access statistics of external
       daemons which are available in a PostgreSQL database or use future or
       special statistics provided by PostgreSQL without the need to upgrade
       your collectd installation.
       Starting with version 5.2, the "postgresql" plugin supports writing
       data to PostgreSQL databases as well. This has been implemented in a
       generic way. You need to specify an SQL statement which will then be
       executed by collectd in order to write the data (see below for
       details). The benefit of that approach is that there is no fixed
       database layout. Rather, the layout may be optimized for the current
       setup.
       The PostgreSQL Documentation manual can be found at
       <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/>;.
         <Plugin postgresql>
           <Query magic>
             Statement "SELECT magic FROM wizard WHERE host = $1;"
             Param hostname
             <Result>
               Type gauge
               InstancePrefix "magic"
               ValuesFrom magic
             </Result>
           </Query>
           <Query rt36_tickets>
             Statement "SELECT COUNT(type) AS count, type \
                               FROM (SELECT CASE \
                                            WHEN resolved = 'epoch' THEN 'open' \
                                            ELSE 'resolved' END AS type \
                                            FROM tickets) type \
                               GROUP BY type;"
             <Result>
               Type counter
               InstancePrefix "rt36_tickets"
               InstancesFrom "type"
               ValuesFrom "count"
             </Result>
           </Query>
           <Writer sqlstore>
             Statement "SELECT collectd_insert($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9);"
             StoreRates true
           </Writer>
           <Database foo>
             Plugin "kingdom"
             Host "hostname"
             Port "5432"
             User "username"
             Password "secret"
             SSLMode "prefer"
             KRBSrvName "kerberos_service_name"
             Query magic
           </Database>
           <Database bar>
             Interval 300
             Service "service_name"
             Query backends # predefined
             Query rt36_tickets
           </Database>
           <Database qux>
             # ...
             Writer sqlstore
             CommitInterval 10
           </Database>
         </Plugin>
       The Query block defines one database query which may later be used by a
       database definition. It accepts a single mandatory argument which
       specifies the name of the query. The names of all queries have to be
       unique (see the MinVersion and MaxVersion options below for an
       exception to this rule).
       In each Query block, there is one or more Result blocks. Multiple
       Result blocks may be used to extract multiple values from a single
       query.
       The following configuration options are available to define the query:
       Statement sql query statement
           Specify the sql query statement which the plugin should execute.
           The string may contain the tokens $1, $2, etc. which are used to
           reference the first, second, etc. parameter. The value of the
           parameters is specified by the Param configuration option - see
           below for details. To include a literal $ character followed by a
           number, surround it with single quotes (').
           Any SQL command which may return data (such as "SELECT" or "SHOW")
           is allowed. Note, however, that only a single command may be used.
           Semicolons are allowed as long as a single non-empty command has
           been specified only.
           The returned lines will be handled separately one after another.
       Param hostname|database|instance|username|interval
           Specify the parameters which should be passed to the SQL query. The
           parameters are referred to in the SQL query as $1, $2, etc. in the
           same order as they appear in the configuration file. The value of
           the parameter is determined depending on the value of the Param
           option as follows:
           hostname
               The configured hostname of the database connection. If a UNIX
               domain socket is used, the parameter expands to "localhost".
           database
               The name of the database of the current connection.
           instance
               The name of the database plugin instance. See the Instance
               option of the database specification below for details.
           username
               The username used to connect to the database.
           interval
               The interval with which this database is queried (as specified
               by the database specific or global Interval options).
           Please note that parameters are only supported by PostgreSQL's
           protocol version 3 and above which was introduced in version 7.4 of
           PostgreSQL.
       PluginInstanceFrom column
           Specify how to create the "PluginInstance" for reporting this query
           results.  Only one column is supported. You may concatenate fields
           and string values in the query statement to get the required
           results.
       MinVersion version
       MaxVersion version
           Specify the minimum or maximum version of PostgreSQL that this
           query should be used with. Some statistics might only be available
           with certain versions of PostgreSQL. This allows you to specify
           multiple queries with the same name but which apply to different
           versions, thus allowing you to use the same configuration in a
           heterogeneous environment.
           The version has to be specified as the concatenation of the major,
           minor and patch-level versions, each represented as two-decimal-
           digit numbers. For example, version 8.2.3 will become 80203.
       The Result block defines how to handle the values returned from the
       query.  It defines which column holds which value and how to dispatch
       that value to the daemon.
       Type type
           The type name to be used when dispatching the values. The type
           describes how to handle the data and where to store it. See
           types.db(5) for more details on types and their configuration. The
           number and type of values (as selected by the ValuesFrom option)
           has to match the type of the given name.
           This option is mandatory.
       InstancePrefix prefix
       InstancesFrom column0 [column1 ...]
           Specify how to create the "TypeInstance" for each data set (i. e.
           line).  InstancePrefix defines a static prefix that will be
           prepended to all type instances. InstancesFrom defines the column
           names whose values will be used to create the type instance.
           Multiple values will be joined together using the hyphen ("-") as
           separation character.
           The plugin itself does not check whether or not all built instances
           are different. It is your responsibility to assure that each is
           unique.
           Both options are optional. If none is specified, the type instance
           will be empty.
       ValuesFrom column0 [column1 ...]
           Names the columns whose content is used as the actual data for the
           data sets that are dispatched to the daemon. How many such columns
           you need is determined by the Type setting as explained above. If
           you specify too many or not enough columns, the plugin will
           complain about that and no data will be submitted to the daemon.
           The actual data type, as seen by PostgreSQL, is not that important
           as long as it represents numbers. The plugin will automatically
           cast the values to the right type if it know how to do that. For
           that, it uses the strtoll(3) and strtod(3) functions, so anything
           supported by those functions is supported by the plugin as well.
           This option is required inside a Result block and may be specified
           multiple times. If multiple ValuesFrom options are specified, the
           columns are read in the given order.
       The following predefined queries are available (the definitions can be
       found in the postgresql_default.conf file which, by default, is
       available at "prefix/share/collectd/"):
       backends
           This query collects the number of backends, i. e. the number of
           connected clients.
       transactions
           This query collects the numbers of committed and rolled-back
           transactions of the user tables.
       queries
           This query collects the numbers of various table modifications
           (i. e.  insertions, updates, deletions) of the user tables.
       query_plans
           This query collects the numbers of various table scans and returned
           tuples of the user tables.
       table_states
           This query collects the numbers of live and dead rows in the user
           tables.
       disk_io
           This query collects disk block access counts for user tables.
       disk_usage
           This query collects the on-disk size of the database in bytes.
       In addition, the following detailed queries are available by default.
       Please note that each of those queries collects information by table,
       thus, potentially producing a lot of data. For details see the
       description of the non-by_table queries above.
       queries_by_table
       query_plans_by_table
       table_states_by_table
       disk_io_by_table
       The Writer block defines a PostgreSQL writer backend. It accepts a
       single mandatory argument specifying the name of the writer. This will
       then be used in the Database specification in order to activate the
       writer instance. The names of all writers have to be unique. The
       following options may be specified:
       Statement sql statement
           This mandatory option specifies the SQL statement that will be
           executed for each submitted value. A single SQL statement is
           allowed only. Anything after the first semicolon will be ignored.
           Nine parameters will be passed to the statement and should be
           specified as tokens $1, $2, through $9 in the statement string. The
           following values are made available through those parameters:
           $1  The timestamp of the queried value as an RFC 3339-formatted
               local time.
           $2  The hostname of the queried value.
           $3  The plugin name of the queried value.
           $4  The plugin instance of the queried value. This value may be
               NULL if there is no plugin instance.
           $5  The type of the queried value (cf. types.db(5)).
           $6  The type instance of the queried value. This value may be NULL
               if there is no type instance.
           $7  An array of names for the submitted values (i. e., the name of
               the data sources of the submitted value-list).
           $8  An array of types for the submitted values (i. e., the type of
               the data sources of the submitted value-list; "counter",
               "gauge", ...). Note, that if StoreRates is enabled (which is
               the default, see below), all types will be "gauge".
           $9  An array of the submitted values. The dimensions of the value
               name and value arrays match.
           In general, it is advisable to create and call a custom function in
           the PostgreSQL database for this purpose. Any procedural language
           supported by PostgreSQL will do (see chapter "Server Programming"
           in the PostgreSQL manual for details).
       StoreRates false|true
           If set to true (the default), convert counter values to rates. If
           set to false counter values are stored as is, i. e. as an
           increasing integer number.
       The Database block defines one PostgreSQL database for which to collect
       statistics. It accepts a single mandatory argument which specifies the
       database name. None of the other options are required. PostgreSQL will
       use default values as documented in the section "CONNECTING TO A
       DATABASE" in the psql(1) manpage. However, be aware that those defaults
       may be influenced by the user collectd is run as and special
       environment variables. See the manpage for details.
       Interval seconds
           Specify the interval with which the database should be queried. The
           default is to use the global Interval setting.
       CommitInterval seconds
           This option may be used for database connections which have
           "writers" assigned (see above). If specified, it causes a writer to
           put several updates into a single transaction. This transaction
           will last for the specified amount of time. By default, each update
           will be executed in a separate transaction. Each transaction
           generates a fair amount of overhead which can, thus, be reduced by
           activating this option. The draw-back is, that data covering the
           specified amount of time will be lost, for example, if a single
           statement within the transaction fails or if the database server
           crashes.
       Plugin Plugin
           Use Plugin as the plugin name when submitting query results from
           this Database. Defaults to "postgresql".
       Instance name
           Specify the plugin instance name that should be used instead of the
           database name (which is the default, if this option has not been
           specified). This allows one to query multiple databases of the same
           name on the same host (e.g.  when running multiple database server
           versions in parallel).  The plugin instance name can also be set
           from the query result using the PluginInstanceFrom option in Query
           block.
       Host hostname
           Specify the hostname or IP of the PostgreSQL server to connect to.
           If the value begins with a slash, it is interpreted as the
           directory name in which to look for the UNIX domain socket.
           This option is also used to determine the hostname that is
           associated with a collected data set. If it has been omitted or
           either begins with with a slash or equals localhost it will be
           replaced with the global hostname definition of collectd. Any other
           value will be passed literally to collectd when dispatching values.
           Also see the global Hostname and FQDNLookup options.
       Port port
           Specify the TCP port or the local UNIX domain socket file extension
           of the server.
       User username
           Specify the username to be used when connecting to the server.
       Password password
           Specify the password to be used when connecting to the server.
       ExpireDelay delay
           Skip expired values in query output.
       SSLMode disable|allow|prefer|require
           Specify whether to use an SSL connection when contacting the
           server. The following modes are supported:
           disable
               Do not use SSL at all.
           allow
               First, try to connect without using SSL. If that fails, try
               using SSL.
           prefer (default)
               First, try to connect using SSL. If that fails, try without
               using SSL.
           require
               Use SSL only.
       Instance name
           Specify the plugin instance name that should be used instead of the
           database name (which is the default, if this option has not been
           specified). This allows one to query multiple databases of the same
           name on the same host (e.g.  when running multiple database server
           versions in parallel).
       KRBSrvName kerberos_service_name
           Specify the Kerberos service name to use when authenticating with
           Kerberos 5 or GSSAPI. See the sections "Kerberos authentication"
           and "GSSAPI" of the PostgreSQL Documentation for details.
       Service service_name
           Specify the PostgreSQL service name to use for additional
           parameters. That service has to be defined in pg_service.conf and
           holds additional connection parameters. See the section "The
           Connection Service File" in the PostgreSQL Documentation for
           details.
       Query query
           Specifies a query which should be executed in the context of the
           database connection. This may be any of the predefined or user-
           defined queries. If no such option is given, it defaults to
           "backends", "transactions", "queries", "query_plans",
           "table_states", "disk_io" and "disk_usage" (unless a Writer has
           been specified). Else, the specified queries are used only.
       Writer writer
           Assigns the specified writer backend to the database connection.
           This causes all collected data to be send to the database using the
           settings defined in the writer configuration (see the section
           "FILTER CONFIGURATION" below for details on how to selectively send
           data to certain plugins).
           Each writer will register a flush callback which may be used when
           having long transactions enabled (see the CommitInterval option
           above). When issuing the FLUSH command (see collectd-unixsock(5)
           for details) the current transaction will be committed right away.
           Two different kinds of flush callbacks are available with the
           "postgresql" plugin:
           postgresql
               Flush all writer backends.
           postgresql-database
               Flush all writers of the specified database only.
   Plugin "powerdns"
       The "powerdns" plugin queries statistics from an authoritative PowerDNS
       nameserver and/or a PowerDNS recursor. Since both offer a wide variety
       of values, many of which are probably meaningless to most users, but
       may be useful for some. So you may chose which values to collect, but
       if you don't, some reasonable defaults will be collected.
         <Plugin "powerdns">
           <Server "server_name">
             Collect "latency"
             Collect "udp-answers" "udp-queries"
             Socket "/var/run/pdns.controlsocket"
           </Server>
           <Recursor "recursor_name">
             Collect "questions"
             Collect "cache-hits" "cache-misses"
             Socket "/var/run/pdns_recursor.controlsocket"
           </Recursor>
           LocalSocket "/opt/collectd/var/run/collectd-powerdns"
         </Plugin>
       Server and Recursor block
           The Server block defines one authoritative server to query, the
           Recursor does the same for an recursing server. The possible
           options in both blocks are the same, though. The argument defines a
           name for the server / recursor and is required.
           Collect Field
               Using the Collect statement you can select which values to
               collect. Here, you specify the name of the values as used by
               the PowerDNS servers, e. g.  "dlg-only-drops", "answers10-100".
               The method of getting the values differs for Server and
               Recursor blocks: When querying the server a "SHOW *" command is
               issued in any case, because that's the only way of getting
               multiple values out of the server at once.  collectd then picks
               out the values you have selected. When querying the recursor, a
               command is generated to query exactly these values. So if you
               specify invalid fields when querying the recursor, a syntax
               error may be returned by the daemon and collectd may not
               collect any values at all.
               If no Collect statement is given, the following Server values
               will be collected:
               latency
               packetcache-hit
               packetcache-miss
               packetcache-size
               query-cache-hit
               query-cache-miss
               recursing-answers
               recursing-questions
               tcp-answers
               tcp-queries
               udp-answers
               udp-queries
               The following Recursor values will be collected by default:
               noerror-answers
               nxdomain-answers
               servfail-answers
               sys-msec
               user-msec
               qa-latency
               cache-entries
               cache-hits
               cache-misses
               questions
               Please note that up to that point collectd doesn't know what
               values are available on the server and values that are added do
               not need a change of the mechanism so far. However, the values
               must be mapped to collectd's naming scheme, which is done using
               a lookup table that lists all known values. If values are added
               in the future and collectd does not know about them, you will
               get an error much like this:
                 powerdns plugin: submit: Not found in lookup table: foobar = 42
               In this case please file a bug report with the collectd team.
           Socket Path
               Configures the path to the UNIX domain socket to be used when
               connecting to the daemon. By default
               "${localstatedir}/run/pdns.controlsocket" will be used for an
               authoritative server and
               "${localstatedir}/run/pdns_recursor.controlsocket" will be used
               for the recursor.
       LocalSocket Path
           Querying the recursor is done using UDP. When using UDP over UNIX
           domain sockets, the client socket needs a name in the file system,
           too. You can set this local name to Path using the LocalSocket
           option. The default is "prefix/var/run/collectd-powerdns".
   Plugin "processes"
       Collects information about processes of local system.
       By default, with no process matches configured, only general statistics
       is collected: the number of processes in each state and fork rate.
       Process matches can be configured by Process and ProcessMatch options.
       These may also be a block in which further options may be specified.
       The statistics collected for matched processes are:
        - size of the resident segment size (RSS)
        - user- and system-time used
        - number of processes
        - number of threads
        - number of open files (under Linux)
        - number of memory mapped files (under Linux)
        - io data (where available)
        - context switches (under Linux)
        - minor and major pagefaults
        - Delay Accounting information (Linux only, requires libmnl)
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin processes>
          CollectFileDescriptor  true
          CollectContextSwitch   true
          CollectDelayAccounting false
          Process "name"
          ProcessMatch "name" "regex"
          <Process "collectd">
            CollectFileDescriptor  false
            CollectContextSwitch   false
            CollectDelayAccounting true
          </Process>
          <ProcessMatch "name" "regex">
            CollectFileDescriptor false
            CollectContextSwitch true
          </ProcessMatch>
        </Plugin>
       Process Name
           Select more detailed statistics of processes matching this name.
           Some platforms have a limit on the length of process names.  Name
           must stay below this limit.
       ProcessMatch name regex
           Select more detailed statistics of processes matching the specified
           regex (see regex(7) for details). The statistics of all matching
           processes are summed up and dispatched to the daemon using the
           specified name as an identifier. This allows one to "group" several
           processes together.  name must not contain slashes.
       CollectContextSwitch Boolean
           Collect the number of context switches for matched processes.
           Disabled by default.
       CollectDelayAccounting Boolean
           If enabled, collect Linux Delay Accounding information for matching
           processes.  Delay Accounting provides the time processes wait for
           the CPU to become available, for I/O operations to finish, for
           pages to be swapped in and for freed pages to be reclaimed. The
           metrics are reported as "seconds per second" using the "delay_rate"
           type, e.g. "delay_rate-delay-cpu".  Disabled by default.
           This option is only available on Linux, requires the "libmnl"
           library and requires the "CAP_NET_ADMIN" capability at runtime.
       CollectFileDescriptor Boolean
           Collect number of file descriptors of matched processes.  Disabled
           by default.
       CollectMemoryMaps Boolean
           Collect the number of memory mapped files of the process.  The
           limit for this number is configured via /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count
           in the Linux kernel.
       The CollectContextSwitch, CollectDelayAccounting, CollectFileDescriptor
       and CollectMemoryMaps options may be used inside Process and
       ProcessMatch blocks. When used there, these options affect reporting
       the corresponding processes only. Outside of Process and ProcessMatch
       blocks these options set the default value for subsequent matches.
   Plugin "procevent"
       The procevent plugin monitors when processes start (EXEC) and stop
       (EXIT).
       Synopsis:
         <Plugin procevent>
           BufferLength 10
           Process "name"
           ProcessRegex "regex"
         </Plugin>
       Options:
       BufferLength length
           Maximum number of process events that can be stored in plugin's
           ring buffer.  By default, this is set to 10.  Once an event has
           been read, its location becomes available for storing a new event.
       Process name
           Enumerate a process name to monitor.  All processes that match this
           exact name will be monitored for EXECs and EXITs.
       ProcessRegex regex
           Enumerate a process pattern to monitor.  All processes that match
           this regular expression will be monitored for EXECs and EXITs.
   Plugin "protocols"
       Collects a lot of information about various network protocols, such as
       IP, TCP, UDP, etc.
       Available configuration options:
       Value Selector
           Selects whether or not to select a specific value. The string being
           matched is of the form "Protocol:ValueName", where Protocol will be
           used as the plugin instance and ValueName will be used as type
           instance. An example of the string being used would be
           "Tcp:RetransSegs".
           You can use regular expressions to match a large number of values
           with just one configuration option. To select all "extended" TCP
           values, you could use the following statement:
             Value "/^TcpExt:/"
           Whether only matched values are selected or all matched values are
           ignored depends on the IgnoreSelected. By default, only matched
           values are selected.  If no value is configured at all, all values
           will be selected.
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           If set to true, inverts the selection made by Value, i. e. all
           matching values will be ignored.
   Plugin "python"
       This plugin embeds a Python-interpreter into collectd and provides an
       interface to collectd's plugin system. See collectd-python(5) for its
       documentation.
   Plugin "redfish"
       The "redfish" plugin collects sensor data using REST protocol called
       Redfish.
       Sample configuration:
         <Plugin redfish>
           <Query "fans">
             Endpoint "/redfish/v1/Chassis/Chassis-1/Thermal"
             <Resource "Fans">
               <Property "ReadingRPM">
                 PluginInstance "chassis-1"
                 Type "rpm"
               </Property>
             </Resource>
           </Query>
           <Query "temperatures">
             Endpoint "/redfish/v1/Chassis/Chassis-1/Thermal"
             <Resource "Temperatures">
               <Property "ReadingCelsius">
                 PluginInstance "chassis-1"
                 Type "degrees"
               </Property>
             </Resource>
           </Query>
           <Query "voltages">
             Endpoint "/redfish/v1/Chassis/Chassis-1/Power"
             <Resource "Voltages">
               <Property "ReadingVolts">
                 PluginInstance "chassis-1"
                 Type "volts"
               </Property>
             </Resource>
           </Query>
           <Service "local">
             Host "127.0.0.1:5000"
             User "user"
             Passwd "passwd"
             Queries "fans" "voltages" "temperatures"
           </Service>
         </Plugin>
       Query
           Section defining a query performed on Redfish interface
       Endpoint
           URI of the REST API Endpoint for accessing the BMC
       Resource
           Selects single resource or array to collect data.
       Property
           Selects property from which data is gathered
       PluginInstance
           Plugin instance of dispatched collectd metric
       Type
           Type of dispatched collectd metric
       TypeInstance
           Type instance of collectd metric
       Service
           Section defining service to be sent requests
       Username
           BMC username
       Password
           BMC password
       Queries
           Queries to run
   Plugin "routeros"
       The "routeros" plugin connects to a device running RouterOS, the Linux-
       based operating system for routers by MikroTik. The plugin uses
       librouteros to connect and reads information about the interfaces and
       wireless connections of the device. The configuration supports querying
       multiple routers:
         <Plugin "routeros">
           <Router>
             Host "router0.example.com"
             User "collectd"
             Password "secr3t"
             CollectInterface true
             CollectCPULoad true
             CollectMemory true
           </Router>
           <Router>
             Host "router1.example.com"
             User "collectd"
             Password "5ecret"
             CollectInterface true
             CollectRegistrationTable true
             CollectDF true
             CollectDisk true
             CollectHealth true
           </Router>
         </Plugin>
       As you can see above, the configuration of the routeros plugin consists
       of one or more <Router> blocks. Within each block, the following
       options are understood:
       Host Host
           Hostname or IP-address of the router to connect to.
       Port Port
           Port name or port number used when connecting. If left unspecified,
           the default will be chosen by librouteros, currently "8728". This
           option expects a string argument, even when a numeric port number
           is given.
       User User
           Use the user name User to authenticate. Defaults to "admin".
       Password Password
           Set the password used to authenticate.
       CollectInterface true|false
           When set to true, interface statistics will be collected for all
           interfaces present on the device. Defaults to false.
       CollectRegistrationTable true|false
           When set to true, information about wireless LAN connections will
           be collected. Defaults to false.
       CollectCPULoad true|false
           When set to true, information about the CPU usage will be
           collected. The number is a dimensionless value where zero indicates
           no CPU usage at all.  Defaults to false.
       CollectMemory true|false
           When enabled, the amount of used and free memory will be collected.
           How used memory is calculated is unknown, for example whether or
           not caches are counted as used space.  Defaults to false.
       CollectDF true|false
           When enabled, the amount of used and free disk space will be
           collected.  Defaults to false.
       CollectDisk true|false
           When enabled, the number of sectors written and bad blocks will be
           collected.  Defaults to false.
       CollectHealth true|false
           When enabled, the health statistics will be collected. This
           includes the voltage and temperature on supported hardware.
           Defaults to false.
   Plugin "redis"
       The Redis plugin connects to one or more Redis servers, gathers
       information about each server's state and executes user-defined
       queries.  For each server there is a Node block which configures the
       connection parameters and set of user-defined queries for this node.
         <Plugin redis>
           <Node "example">
               Host "localhost"
               Port "6379"
               #Socket "/var/run/redis/redis.sock"
               Timeout 2000
               ReportCommandStats false
               ReportCpuUsage true
               <Query "LLEN myqueue">
                 #Database 0
                 Type "queue_length"
                 Instance "myqueue"
               </Query>
           </Node>
         </Plugin>
       Node Nodename
           The Node block identifies a new Redis node, that is a new Redis
           instance running in an specified host and port. The name for node
           is a canonical identifier which is used as plugin instance. It is
           limited to 128 characters in length.
           When no Node is configured explicitly, plugin connects to
           "localhost:6379".
       Host Hostname
           The Host option is the hostname or IP-address where the Redis
           instance is running on.
       Port Port
           The Port option is the TCP port on which the Redis instance accepts
           connections. Either a service name of a port number may be given.
           Please note that numerical port numbers must be given as a string,
           too.
       Socket Path
           Connect to Redis using the UNIX domain socket at Path. If this
           setting is given, the Hostname and Port settings are ignored.
       Password Password
           Use Password to authenticate when connecting to Redis.
       Timeout Milliseconds
           The Timeout option set the socket timeout for node response. Since
           the Redis read function is blocking, you should keep this value as
           low as possible.  It is expected what Timeout values should be
           lower than Interval defined globally.
           Defaults to 2000 (2 seconds).
       ReportCommandStats false|true
           Enables or disables reporting of statistics based on the command
           type, including rate of command calls and average CPU time consumed
           by command processing.  Defaults to false.
       ReportCpuUsage true|false
           Enables or disables reporting of CPU consumption statistics.
           Defaults to true.
       Query Querystring
           The Query block identifies a query to execute against the redis
           server.  There may be an arbitrary number of queries to execute.
           Each query should return single string or integer.
       Type Collectd type
           Within a query definition, a valid collectd type to use as when
           submitting the result of the query. When not supplied, will default
           to gauge.
           Currently only types with one datasource are supported.  See
           types.db(5) for more details on types and their configuration.
       Instance Type instance
           Within a query definition, an optional type instance to use when
           submitting the result of the query. When not supplied will default
           to the escaped command, up to 128 chars.
       Database Index
           This index selects the Redis logical database to use for query.
           Defaults to 0.
   Plugin "rrdcached"
       The "rrdcached" plugin uses the RRDtool accelerator daemon,
       rrdcached(1), to store values to RRD files in an efficient manner. The
       combination of the "rrdcached" plugin and the "rrdcached" daemon is
       very similar to the way the "rrdtool" plugin works (see below). The
       added abstraction layer provides a number of benefits, though: Because
       the cache is not within "collectd" anymore, it does not need to be
       flushed when "collectd" is to be restarted. This results in much
       shorter (if any) gaps in graphs, especially under heavy load. Also, the
       "rrdtool" command line utility is aware of the daemon so that it can
       flush values to disk automatically when needed. This allows one to
       integrate automated flushing of values into graphing solutions much
       more easily.
       There are disadvantages, though: The daemon may reside on a different
       host, so it may not be possible for "collectd" to create the
       appropriate RRD files anymore. And even if "rrdcached" runs on the same
       host, it may run in a different base directory, so relative paths may
       do weird stuff if you're not careful.
       So the recommended configuration is to let "collectd" and "rrdcached"
       run on the same host, communicating via a UNIX domain socket. The
       DataDir setting should be set to an absolute path, so that a changed
       base directory does not result in RRD files being created / expected in
       the wrong place.
       DaemonAddress Address
           Address of the daemon as understood by the "rrdc_connect" function
           of the RRD library. See rrdcached(1) for details. Example:
             <Plugin "rrdcached">
               DaemonAddress "unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock"
             </Plugin>
       DataDir Directory
           Set the base directory in which the RRD files reside. If this is a
           relative path, it is relative to the working base directory of the
           "rrdcached" daemon!  Use of an absolute path is recommended.
       CreateFiles true|false
           Enables or disables the creation of RRD files. If the daemon is not
           running locally, or DataDir is set to a relative path, this will
           not work as expected. Default is true.
       CreateFilesAsync false|true
           When enabled, new RRD files are enabled asynchronously, using a
           separate thread that runs in the background. This prevents writes
           to block, which is a problem especially when many hundreds of files
           need to be created at once. However, since the purpose of creating
           the files asynchronously is not to block until the file is
           available, values before the file is available will be discarded.
           When disabled (the default) files are created synchronously,
           blocking for a short while, while the file is being written.
       StepSize Seconds
           Force the stepsize of newly created RRD-files. Ideally (and per
           default) this setting is unset and the stepsize is set to the
           interval in which the data is collected. Do not use this option
           unless you absolutely have to for some reason. Setting this option
           may cause problems with the "snmp plugin", the "exec plugin" or
           when the daemon is set up to receive data from other hosts.
       HeartBeat Seconds
           Force the heartbeat of newly created RRD-files. This setting should
           be unset in which case the heartbeat is set to twice the StepSize
           which should equal the interval in which data is collected. Do not
           set this option unless you have a very good reason to do so.
       RRARows NumRows
           The "rrdtool plugin" calculates the number of PDPs per CDP based on
           the StepSize, this setting and a timespan. This plugin creates RRD-
           files with three times five RRAs, i. e. five RRAs with the CFs MIN,
           AVERAGE, and MAX. The five RRAs are optimized for graphs covering
           one hour, one day, one week, one month, and one year.
           So for each timespan, it calculates how many PDPs need to be
           consolidated into one CDP by calculating:
             number of PDPs = timespan / (stepsize * rrarows)
           Bottom line is, set this no smaller than the width of you graphs in
           pixels. The default is 1200.
       RRATimespan Seconds
           Adds an RRA-timespan, given in seconds. Use this option multiple
           times to have more then one RRA. If this option is never used, the
           built-in default of (3600, 86400, 604800, 2678400, 31622400) is
           used.
           For more information on how RRA-sizes are calculated see RRARows
           above.
       XFF Factor
           Set the "XFiles Factor". The default is 0.1. If unsure, don't set
           this option.  Factor must be in the range "[0.0-1.0)", i.e. between
           zero (inclusive) and one (exclusive).
       CollectStatistics false|true
           When set to true, various statistics about the rrdcached daemon
           will be collected, with "rrdcached" as the plugin name. Defaults to
           false.
           Statistics are read via rrdcacheds socket using the STATS command.
           See rrdcached(1) for details.
   Plugin "rrdtool"
       You can use the settings StepSize, HeartBeat, RRARows, and XFF to fine-
       tune your RRD-files. Please read rrdcreate(1) if you encounter problems
       using these settings. If you don't want to dive into the depths of
       RRDtool, you can safely ignore these settings.
       DataDir Directory
           Set the directory to store RRD files under. By default RRD files
           are generated beneath the daemon's working directory, i.e. the
           BaseDir.
       CreateFilesAsync false|true
           When enabled, new RRD files are enabled asynchronously, using a
           separate thread that runs in the background. This prevents writes
           to block, which is a problem especially when many hundreds of files
           need to be created at once. However, since the purpose of creating
           the files asynchronously is not to block until the file is
           available, values before the file is available will be discarded.
           When disabled (the default) files are created synchronously,
           blocking for a short while, while the file is being written.
       StepSize Seconds
           Force the stepsize of newly created RRD-files. Ideally (and per
           default) this setting is unset and the stepsize is set to the
           interval in which the data is collected. Do not use this option
           unless you absolutely have to for some reason. Setting this option
           may cause problems with the "snmp plugin", the "exec plugin" or
           when the daemon is set up to receive data from other hosts.
       HeartBeat Seconds
           Force the heartbeat of newly created RRD-files. This setting should
           be unset in which case the heartbeat is set to twice the StepSize
           which should equal the interval in which data is collected. Do not
           set this option unless you have a very good reason to do so.
       RRARows NumRows
           The "rrdtool plugin" calculates the number of PDPs per CDP based on
           the StepSize, this setting and a timespan. This plugin creates RRD-
           files with three times five RRAs, i.e. five RRAs with the CFs MIN,
           AVERAGE, and MAX. The five RRAs are optimized for graphs covering
           one hour, one day, one week, one month, and one year.
           So for each timespan, it calculates how many PDPs need to be
           consolidated into one CDP by calculating:
             number of PDPs = timespan / (stepsize * rrarows)
           Bottom line is, set this no smaller than the width of you graphs in
           pixels. The default is 1200.
       RRATimespan Seconds
           Adds an RRA-timespan, given in seconds. Use this option multiple
           times to have more then one RRA. If this option is never used, the
           built-in default of (3600, 86400, 604800, 2678400, 31622400) is
           used.
           For more information on how RRA-sizes are calculated see RRARows
           above.
       XFF Factor
           Set the "XFiles Factor". The default is 0.1. If unsure, don't set
           this option.  Factor must be in the range "[0.0-1.0)", i.e. between
           zero (inclusive) and one (exclusive).
       CacheFlush Seconds
           When the "rrdtool" plugin uses a cache (by setting CacheTimeout,
           see below) it writes all values for a certain RRD-file if the
           oldest value is older than (or equal to) the number of seconds
           specified by CacheTimeout.  That check happens on new values
           arriwal. If some RRD-file is not updated anymore for some reason
           (the computer was shut down, the network is broken, etc.) some
           values may still be in the cache. If CacheFlush is set, then every
           Seconds seconds the entire cache is searched for entries older than
           CacheTimeout + RandomTimeout seconds. The entries found are written
           to disk. Since scanning the entire cache is kind of expensive and
           does nothing under normal circumstances, this value should not be
           too small. 900 seconds might be a good value, though setting this
           to 7200 seconds doesn't normally do much harm either.
           Defaults to 10x CacheTimeout.  CacheFlush must be larger than or
           equal to CacheTimeout, otherwise the above default is used.
       CacheTimeout Seconds
           If this option is set to a value greater than zero, the "rrdtool
           plugin" will save values in a cache, as described above. Writing
           multiple values at once reduces IO-operations and thus lessens the
           load produced by updating the files.  The trade off is that the
           graphs kind of "drag behind" and that more memory is used.
       WritesPerSecond Updates
           When collecting many statistics with collectd and the "rrdtool"
           plugin, you will run serious performance problems. The CacheFlush
           setting and the internal update queue assert that collectd
           continues to work just fine even under heavy load, but the system
           may become very unresponsive and slow. This is a problem especially
           if you create graphs from the RRD files on the same machine, for
           example using the "graph.cgi" script included in the
           "contrib/collection3/" directory.
           This setting is designed for very large setups. Setting this option
           to a value between 25 and 80 updates per second, depending on your
           hardware, will leave the server responsive enough to draw graphs
           even while all the cached values are written to disk. Flushed
           values, i. e. values that are forced to disk by the FLUSH command,
           are not effected by this limit. They are still written as fast as
           possible, so that web frontends have up to date data when
           generating graphs.
           For example: If you have 100,000 RRD files and set WritesPerSecond
           to 30 updates per second, writing all values to disk will take
           approximately 56 minutes. Together with the flushing ability that's
           integrated into "collection3" you'll end up with a responsive and
           fast system, up to date graphs and basically a "backup" of your
           values every hour.
       RandomTimeout Seconds
           When set, the actual timeout for each value is chosen randomly
           between CacheTimeout-RandomTimeout and CacheTimeout+RandomTimeout.
           The intention is to avoid high load situations that appear when
           many values timeout at the same time. This is especially a problem
           shortly after the daemon starts, because all values were added to
           the internal cache at roughly the same time.
   Plugin "sensors"
       The Sensors plugin uses lm_sensors to retrieve sensor-values. This
       means that all the needed modules have to be loaded and lm_sensors has
       to be configured (most likely by editing /etc/sensors.conf. Read
       sensors.conf(5) for details.
       The lm_sensors homepage can be found at
       <http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/>;.
       SensorConfigFile File
           Read the lm_sensors configuration from File. When unset
           (recommended), the library's default will be used.
       Sensor chip-bus-address/type-feature
           Selects the name of the sensor which you want to collect or ignore,
           depending on the IgnoreSelected below. For example, the option
           "Sensor it8712-isa-0290/voltage-in1" will cause collectd to gather
           data for the voltage sensor in1 of the it8712 on the isa bus at the
           address 0290.
           The value passed to this option has the format
           "plugin_instance/type-type_instance".
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           If no configuration if given, the sensors-plugin will collect data
           from all sensors. This may not be practical, especially for
           uninteresting sensors.  Thus, you can use the Sensor-option to pick
           the sensors you're interested in. Sometimes, however, it's
           easier/preferred to collect all sensors except a few ones. This
           option enables you to do that: By setting IgnoreSelected to true
           the effect of Sensor is inverted: All selected sensors are ignored
           and all other sensors are collected.
       UseLabels true|false
           Configures how sensor readings are reported. When set to true,
           sensor readings are reported using their descriptive label (e.g.
           "VCore"). When set to false (the default) the sensor name is used
           ("in0").
   Plugin "sigrok"
       The sigrok plugin uses libsigrok to retrieve measurements from any
       device supported by the sigrok <http://sigrok.org/>; project.
       Synopsis
        <Plugin sigrok>
          LogLevel 3
          <Device "AC Voltage">
             Driver "fluke-dmm"
             MinimumInterval 10
             Conn "/dev/ttyUSB2"
          </Device>
          <Device "Sound Level">
             Driver "cem-dt-885x"
             Conn "/dev/ttyUSB1"
          </Device>
        </Plugin>
       LogLevel 0-5
           The sigrok logging level to pass on to the collectd log, as a
           number between 0 and 5 (inclusive). These levels correspond to
           "None", "Errors", "Warnings", "Informational", "Debug "and "Spew",
           respectively.  The default is 2 ("Warnings"). The sigrok log
           messages, regardless of their level, are always submitted to
           collectd at its INFO log level.
       <Device Name>
           A sigrok-supported device, uniquely identified by this section's
           options. The Name is passed to collectd as the plugin instance.
       Driver DriverName
           The sigrok driver to use for this device.
       Conn ConnectionSpec
           If the device cannot be auto-discovered, or more than one might be
           discovered by the driver, ConnectionSpec specifies the connection
           string to the device.  It can be of the form of a device path
           (e.g. "/dev/ttyUSB2"), or, in case of a non-serial USB-connected
           device, the USB VendorID.ProductID separated by a period
           (e.g. 0403.6001). A USB device can also be specified as Bus.Address
           (e.g. 1.41).
       SerialComm SerialSpec
           For serial devices with non-standard port settings, this option can
           be used to specify them in a form understood by sigrok,
           e.g. "9600/8n1".  This should not be necessary; drivers know how to
           communicate with devices they support.
       MinimumInterval Seconds
           Specifies the minimum time between measurement dispatches to
           collectd, in seconds. Since some sigrok supported devices can
           acquire measurements many times per second, it may be necessary to
           throttle these. For example, the RRD plugin cannot process writes
           more than once per second.
           The default MinimumInterval is 0, meaning measurements received
           from the device are always dispatched to collectd. When throttled,
           unused measurements are discarded.
   Plugin "slurm"
       This plugin collects per-partition SLURM node and job state
       information, as well as internal health statistics.  It takes no
       options. It should run on a node that is capable of running the sinfo
       and squeue commands, i.e. it has a running slurmd and a valid
       slurm.conf.  Note that this plugin needs the Globals option set to true
       in order to function properly.
   Plugin "smart"
       The "smart" plugin collects SMART information from physical disks.
       Values collectd include temperature, power cycle count, poweron time
       and bad sectors. Also, all SMART attributes are collected along with
       the normalized current value, the worst value, the threshold and a
       human readable value. The plugin can also collect SMART attributes for
       NVMe disks (present in accordance with NVMe 1.4 spec) and Additional
       SMART Attributes from IntelX NVMe disks.
       Using the following two options you can ignore some disks or configure
       the collection only of specific disks.
       Disk Name
           Select the disk Name. Whether it is collected or ignored depends on
           the IgnoreSelected setting, see below. As with other plugins that
           use the daemon's ignorelist functionality, a string that starts and
           ends with a slash is interpreted as a regular expression. Examples:
             Disk "sdd"
             Disk "/hda[34]/"
             Disk "nvme0n1"
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           Sets whether selected disks, i. e. the ones matches by any of the
           Disk statements, are ignored or if all other disks are ignored. The
           behavior (hopefully) is intuitive: If no Disk option is configured,
           all disks are collected. If at least one Disk option is given and
           no IgnoreSelected or set to false, only matching disks will be
           collected. If IgnoreSelected is set to true, all disks are
           collected except the ones matched.
       IgnoreSleepMode true|false
           Normally, the "smart" plugin will ignore disks that are reported to
           be asleep.  This option disables the sleep mode check and allows
           the plugin to collect data from these disks anyway. This is useful
           in cases where libatasmart mistakenly reports disks as asleep
           because it has not been updated to incorporate support for newer
           idle states in the ATA spec.
       UseSerial true|false
           A disk's kernel name (e.g., sda) can change from one boot to the
           next. If this option is enabled, the "smart" plugin will use the
           disk's serial number (e.g., HGST_HUH728080ALE600_2EJ8VH8X) instead
           of the kernel name as the key for storing data. This ensures that
           the data for a given disk will be kept together even if the kernel
           name changes.
   Plugin "snmp"
       Since the configuration of the "snmp plugin" is a little more
       complicated than other plugins, its documentation has been moved to an
       own manpage, collectd-snmp(5). Please see there for details.
   Plugin "snmp_agent"
       The snmp_agent plugin is an AgentX subagent that receives and handles
       queries from SNMP master agent and returns the data collected by read
       plugins.  The snmp_agent plugin handles requests only for OIDs
       specified in configuration file. To handle SNMP queries the plugin gets
       data from collectd and translates requested values from collectd's
       internal format to SNMP format.  This plugin is a generic plugin and
       cannot work without configuration.  For more details on AgentX subagent
       see <http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/tutorial-5/toolkit/demon/>;
       Synopsis:
         <Plugin snmp_agent>
           <Data "memAvailReal">
             Plugin "memory"
             #PluginInstance "some"
             Type "memory"
             TypeInstance "free"
             OIDs "1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.6.0"
           </Data>
           <Table "ifTable">
             IndexOID "IF-MIB::ifIndex"
             SizeOID "IF-MIB::ifNumber"
             <Data "ifDescr">
               <IndexKey>
                 Source "PluginInstance"
               </IndexKey>
               Plugin "interface"
               OIDs "IF-MIB::ifDescr"
             </Data>
             <Data "ifOctets">
               Plugin "interface"
               Type "if_octets"
               TypeInstance ""
               OIDs "IF-MIB::ifInOctets" "IF-MIB::ifOutOctets"
             </Data>
           </Table>
           <Table "CPUAffinityTable">
             <Data "DomainName">
               <IndexKey>
                 Source "PluginInstance"
               </IndexKey>
               Plugin "virt"
               OIDs "LIBVIRT-HYPERVISOR-MIB::lvhAffinityDomainName"
             </Data>
             <Data "VCPU">
               Plugin "virt"
               <IndexKey>
                 Source "TypeInstance"
                 Regex "^vcpu_([0-9]{1,3})-cpu_[0-9]{1,3}$"
                 Group 1
               </IndexKey>
               OIDs "LIBVIRT-HYPERVISOR-MIB::lvhVCPUIndex"
             </Data>
             <Data "CPU">
               Plugin "virt"
               <IndexKey>
                 Source "TypeInstance"
                 Regex "^vcpu_[0-9]{1,3}-cpu_([0-9]{1,3})$"
                 Group 1
               </IndexKey>
               OIDs "LIBVIRT-HYPERVISOR-MIB::lvhCPUIndex"
             </Data>
             <Data "CPUAffinity">
               Plugin "virt"
               Type "cpu_affinity"
               OIDs "LIBVIRT-HYPERVISOR-MIB::lvhCPUAffinity"
             </Data>
           </Table>
         </Plugin>
       There are two types of blocks that can be contained in the "<Plugin
       snmp_agent>" block: Data and Table:
       Data block
       The Data block defines a list OIDs that are to be handled. This block
       can define scalar or table OIDs. If Data block is defined inside of
       Table block it reperesents table OIDs.  The following options can be
       set:
       IndexKey block
           IndexKey block contains all data needed for proper index build of
           snmp table.  In case more than one table Data block has IndexKey
           block present then multiple key index is built. If Data block
           defines scalar data type IndexKey has no effect and can be omitted.
           Source String
                   Source can be set to one of the following values:
                   "Hostname", "Plugin", "PluginInstance", "Type",
                   "TypeInstance". This value indicates which field of
                   corresponding collectd metric is taken as a SNMP table
                   index.
           Regex String
                   Regex option can also be used to parse strings or numbers
                   out of specific field. For example: type-instance field
                   which is "vcpu1-cpu2" can be parsed into two numeric fields
                   CPU = 2 and VCPU = 1 and can be later used as a table
                   index.
           Group Number
                   Group number can be specified in case groups are used in
                   regex.
       Plugin String
           Read plugin name whose collected data will be mapped to specified
           OIDs.
       PluginInstance String
           Read plugin instance whose collected data will be mapped to
           specified OIDs.  The field is optional and by default there is no
           plugin instance check.  Allowed only if Data block defines scalar
           data type.
       Type String
           Collectd's type that is to be used for specified OID, e. g.
           "if_octets" for example. The types are read from the TypesDB (see
           collectd.conf(5)).
       TypeInstance String
           Collectd's type-instance that is to be used for specified OID.
       OIDs OID [OID ...]
           Configures the OIDs to be handled by snmp_agent plugin. Values for
           these OIDs are taken from collectd data type specified by Plugin,
           PluginInstance, Type, TypeInstance fields of this Data block.
           Number of the OIDs configured should correspond to number of values
           in specified Type.  For example two OIDs "IF-MIB::ifInOctets"
           "IF-MIB::ifOutOctets" can be mapped to "rx" and "tx" values of
           "if_octets" type.
       Scale Value
           The values taken from collectd are multiplied by Value. The field
           is optional and the default is 1.0.
       Shift Value
           Value is added to values from collectd after they have been
           multiplied by Scale value. The field is optional and the default
           value is 0.0.
       The Table block
       The Table block defines a collection of Data blocks that belong to one
       snmp table. In addition to multiple Data blocks the following options
       can be set:
       IndexOID OID
           OID that is handled by the plugin and is mapped to numerical index
           value that is generated by the plugin for each table record.
       SizeOID OID
           OID that is handled by the plugin. Returned value is the number of
           records in the table. The field is optional.
   Plugin "statsd"
       The statsd plugin listens to a UDP socket, reads "events" in the statsd
       protocol and dispatches rates or other aggregates of these numbers
       periodically.
       The plugin implements the Counter, Timer, Gauge and Set types which are
       dispatched as the collectd types "derive", "latency", "gauge" and
       "objects" respectively.
       The following configuration options are valid:
       Host Host
           Bind to the hostname / address Host. By default, the plugin will
           bind to the "any" address, i.e. accept packets sent to any of the
           hosts addresses.
       Port Port
           UDP port to listen to. This can be either a service name or a port
           number.  Defaults to 8125.
       DeleteCounters false|true
       DeleteTimers false|true
       DeleteGauges false|true
       DeleteSets false|true
           These options control what happens if metrics are not updated in an
           interval.  If set to False, the default, metrics are dispatched
           unchanged, i.e. the rate of counters and size of sets will be zero,
           timers report "NaN" and gauges are unchanged. If set to True, the
           such metrics are not dispatched and removed from the internal
           cache.
       CounterSum false|true
           When enabled, creates a "count" metric which reports the change
           since the last read. This option primarily exists for compatibility
           with the statsd implementation by Etsy.
       TimerPercentile Percent
           Calculate and dispatch the configured percentile, i.e. compute the
           latency, so that Percent of all reported timers are smaller than or
           equal to the computed latency. This is useful for cutting off the
           long tail latency, as it's often done in Service Level Agreements
           (SLAs).
           Different percentiles can be calculated by setting this option
           several times.  If none are specified, no percentiles are
           calculated / dispatched.
       TimerLower false|true
       TimerUpper false|true
       TimerSum false|true
       TimerCount false|true
           Calculate and dispatch various values out of Timer metrics received
           during an interval. If set to False, the default, these values
           aren't calculated / dispatched.
           Please note what reported timer values less than 0.001 are ignored
           in all Timer* reports.
   Plugin "swap"
       The Swap plugin collects information about used and available swap
       space. On Linux and Solaris, the following options are available:
       ReportByDevice false|true
           Configures how to report physical swap devices. If set to false
           (the default), the summary over all swap devices is reported only,
           i.e. the globally used and available space over all devices. If
           true is configured, the used and available space of each device
           will be reported separately.
           This option is only available if the Swap plugin can read
           "/proc/swaps" (under Linux) or use the swapctl(2) mechanism (under
           Solaris).
       ReportBytes false|true
           When enabled, the swap I/O is reported in bytes. When disabled, the
           default, swap I/O is reported in pages. This option is available
           under Linux only.
       ValuesAbsolute true|false
           Enables or disables reporting of absolute swap metrics, i.e. number
           of bytes available and used. Defaults to true.
       ValuesPercentage false|true
           Enables or disables reporting of relative swap metrics, i.e.
           percent available and free. Defaults to false.
           This is useful for deploying collectd in a heterogeneous
           environment, where swap sizes differ and you want to specify
           generic thresholds or similar.
       ReportIO true|false
           Enables or disables reporting swap IO. Defaults to true.
           This is useful for the cases when swap IO is not neccessary, is not
           available, or is not reliable.
   Plugin "sysevent"
       The sysevent plugin monitors rsyslog messages.
       Synopsis:
         <Plugin sysevent>
           Listen "192.168.0.2" "6666"
           BufferSize 1024
           BufferLength 10
           RegexFilter "regex"
         </Plugin>
         rsyslog should be configured such that it sends data to the IP and port you
         include in the plugin configuration.  For example, given the configuration
         above, something like this would be set in /etc/rsyslog.conf:
           if $programname != 'collectd' then
           *.* @192.168.0.2:6666
         This plugin is designed to consume JSON rsyslog data, so a more complete
         rsyslog configuration would look like so (where we define a JSON template
         and use it when sending data to our IP and port):
           $template ls_json,"{%timestamp:::date-rfc3339,jsonf:@timestamp%, \
           %source:::jsonf:@source_host%,\"@source\":\"syslog://%fromhost-ip:::json%\", \
           \"@message\":\"%timestamp% %app-name%:%msg:::json%\",\"@fields\": \
           {%syslogfacility-text:::jsonf:facility%,%syslogseverity:::jsonf:severity-num%, \
           %syslogseverity-text:::jsonf:severity%,%programname:::jsonf:program%, \
           %procid:::jsonf:processid%}}"
           if $programname != 'collectd' then
           *.* @192.168.0.2:6666;ls_json
         Please note that these rsyslog.conf examples are *not* complete, as rsyslog
         requires more than these options in the configuration file.  These examples
         are meant to demonstration the proper remote logging and JSON format syntax.
       Options:
       Listen host port
           Listen on this IP on this port for incoming rsyslog messages.
       BufferSize length
           Maximum allowed size for incoming rsyslog messages.  Messages that
           exceed this number will be truncated to this size.  Default is 4096
           bytes.
       BufferLength length
           Maximum number of rsyslog events that can be stored in plugin's
           ring buffer.  By default, this is set to 10.  Once an event has
           been read, its location becomes available for storing a new event.
       RegexFilter regex
           Enumerate a regex filter to apply to all incoming rsyslog messages.
           If a message matches this filter, it will be published.
   Plugin "syslog"
       LogLevel debug|info|notice|warning|err
           Sets the log-level. If, for example, set to notice, then all events
           with severity notice, warning, or err will be submitted to the
           syslog-daemon.
           Please note that debug is only available if collectd has been
           compiled with debugging support.
       NotifyLevel OKAY|WARNING|FAILURE
           Controls which notifications should be sent to syslog. The default
           behaviour is not to send any. Less severe notifications always
           imply logging more severe notifications: Setting this to OKAY means
           all notifications will be sent to syslog, setting this to WARNING
           will send WARNING and FAILURE notifications but will dismiss OKAY
           notifications. Setting this option to FAILURE will only send
           failures to syslog.
   Plugin "table"
       The "table plugin" provides generic means to parse tabular data and
       dispatch user specified values. Values are selected based on column
       numbers. For example, this plugin may be used to get values from the
       Linux proc(5) filesystem or CSV (comma separated values) files.
         <Plugin table>
           <Table "/proc/slabinfo">
             #Plugin "slab"
             Instance "slabinfo"
             Separator " "
             <Result>
               Type gauge
               InstancePrefix "active_objs"
               InstancesFrom 0
               ValuesFrom 1
             </Result>
             <Result>
               Type gauge
               InstancePrefix "objperslab"
               InstancesFrom 0
               ValuesFrom 4
             </Result>
           </Table>
         </Plugin>
       The configuration consists of one or more Table blocks, each of which
       configures one file to parse. Within each Table block, there are one or
       more Result blocks, which configure which data to select and how to
       interpret it.
       The following options are available inside a Table block:
       Plugin Plugin
           If specified, Plugin is used as the plugin name when submitting
           values.  Defaults to table.
       Instance instance
           If specified, instance is used as the plugin instance. If omitted,
           the filename of the table is used instead, with all special
           characters replaced with an underscore ("_").
       Separator string
           Any character of string is interpreted as a delimiter between the
           different columns of the table. A sequence of two or more
           contiguous delimiters in the table is considered to be a single
           delimiter, i. e. there cannot be any empty columns. The plugin uses
           the strtok_r(3) function to parse the lines of a table - see its
           documentation for more details. This option is mandatory.
           A horizontal tab, newline and carriage return may be specified by
           "\\t", "\\n" and "\\r" respectively. Please note that the double
           backslashes are required because of collectd's config parsing.
       The following options are available inside a Result block:
       Type type
           Sets the type used to dispatch the values to the daemon. Detailed
           information about types and their configuration can be found in
           types.db(5). This option is mandatory.
       InstancePrefix prefix
           If specified, prepend prefix to the type instance. If omitted, only
           the InstancesFrom option is considered for the type instance.
       InstancesFrom column0 [column1 ...]
           If specified, the content of the given columns (identified by the
           column number starting at zero) will be used to create the type
           instance for each row. Multiple values (and the instance prefix)
           will be joined together with dashes (-) as separation character. If
           omitted, only the InstancePrefix option is considered for the type
           instance.
           The plugin itself does not check whether or not all built instances
           are different. ItXs your responsibility to assure that each is
           unique. This is especially true, if you do not specify
           InstancesFrom: You have to make sure that the table only contains
           one row.
           If neither InstancePrefix nor InstancesFrom is given, the type
           instance will be empty.
       ValuesFrom column0 [column1 ...]
           Specifies the columns (identified by the column numbers starting at
           zero) whose content is used as the actual data for the data sets
           that are dispatched to the daemon. How many such columns you need
           is determined by the Type setting above. If you specify too many or
           not enough columns, the plugin will complain about that and no data
           will be submitted to the daemon. The plugin uses strtoll(3) and
           strtod(3) to parse counter and gauge values respectively, so
           anything supported by those functions is supported by the plugin as
           well. This option is mandatory.
   Plugin "tail"
       The "tail plugin" follows logfiles, just like tail(1) does, parses each
       line and dispatches found values. What is matched can be configured by
       the user using (extended) regular expressions, as described in
       regex(7).
         <Plugin "tail">
           <File "/var/log/exim4/mainlog">
             Plugin "mail"
             Instance "exim"
             Interval 60
             <Match>
               Regex "S=([1-9][0-9]*)"
               DSType "CounterAdd"
               Type "ipt_bytes"
               Instance "total"
             </Match>
             <Match>
               Regex "\\<R=local_user\\>"
               ExcludeRegex "\\<R=local_user\\>.*mail_spool defer"
               DSType "CounterInc"
               Type "counter"
               Instance "local_user"
             </Match>
             <Match>
               Regex "l=([0-9]*\\.[0-9]*)"
               <DSType "Distribution">
                 Percentile 99
                 Bucket 0 100
                 #BucketType "bucket"
               </DSType>
               Type "latency"
               Instance "foo"
             </Match>
           </File>
         </Plugin>
       The config consists of one or more File blocks, each of which
       configures one logfile to parse. Within each File block, there are one
       or more Match blocks, which configure a regular expression to search
       for.
       The Plugin and Instance options in the File block may be used to set
       the plugin name and instance respectively. So in the above example the
       plugin name "mail-exim" would be used.
       These options are applied for all Match blocks that follow it, until
       the next Plugin or Instance option. This way you can extract several
       plugin instances from one logfile, handy when parsing syslog and the
       like.
       The Interval option allows you to define the length of time between
       reads. If this is not set, the default Interval will be used.
       Each Match block has the following options to describe how the match
       should be performed:
       Regex regex
           Sets the regular expression to use for matching against a line. The
           first subexpression has to match something that can be turned into
           a number by strtoll(3) or strtod(3), depending on the value of
           "CounterAdd", see below. Because extended regular expressions are
           used, you do not need to use backslashes for subexpressions! If in
           doubt, please consult regex(7). Due to collectd's config parsing
           you need to escape backslashes, though. So if you want to match
           literal parentheses you need to do the following:
             Regex "SPAM \\(Score: (-?[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)\\)"
       ExcludeRegex regex
           Sets an optional regular expression to use for excluding lines from
           the match.  An example which excludes all connections from
           localhost from the match:
             ExcludeRegex "127\\.0\\.0\\.1"
       DSType Type
           Sets how the values are cumulated. Type is one of:
           GaugeAverage
               Calculate the average of all values matched during the
               interval.
           GaugeMin
               Report the smallest value matched during the interval.
           GaugeMax
               Report the greatest value matched during the interval.
           GaugeLast
               Report the last value matched during the interval.
           GaugePersist
               Report the last matching value. The metric is not reset to
               "NaN" at the end of an interval. It is continuously reported
               until another value is matched.  This is intended for cases in
               which only state changes are reported, for example a
               thermometer that only reports the temperature when it changes.
           CounterSet
           DeriveSet
           AbsoluteSet
               The matched number is a counter. Simply sets the internal
               counter to this value. Variants exist for "COUNTER", "DERIVE",
               and "ABSOLUTE" data sources.
           GaugeAdd
           CounterAdd
           DeriveAdd
               Add the matched value to the internal counter. In case of
               DeriveAdd, the matched number may be negative, which will
               effectively subtract from the internal counter.
           GaugeInc
           CounterInc
           DeriveInc
               Increase the internal counter by one. These DSType are the only
               ones that do not use the matched subexpression, but simply
               count the number of matched lines. Thus, you may use a regular
               expression without submatch in this case.
               GaugeInc is reset to zero after every read, unlike other Gauge*
               metrics which are reset to "NaN".
           Distribution
               Type to do calculations based on the distribution of values,
               primarily calculating percentiles. This is primarily geared
               towards latency, but can be used for other metrics as well. The
               range of values tracked with this setting must be in the range
               (0X2^34) and can be fractional. Please note that neither zero
               nor 2^34 are inclusive bounds, i.e. zero cannot be handled by a
               distribution.
               This option must be used together with the Percentile and/or
               Bucket options.
               Synopsis:
                 <DSType "Distribution">
                   Percentile 99
                   Bucket 0 100
                   BucketType "bucket"
                 </DSType>
               Percentile Percent
                   Calculate and dispatch the configured percentile, i.e.
                   compute the value, so that Percent of all matched values
                   are smaller than or equal to the computed latency.
                   Metrics are reported with the type Type (the value of the
                   above option) and the type instance
                   "[<Instance>-]<Percent>".
                   This option may be repeated to calculate more than one
                   percentile.
               Bucket lower_bound upper_bound
                   Export the number of values (a "DERIVE") falling within the
                   given range. Both, lower_bound and upper_bound may be a
                   fractional number, such as 0.5.  Each Bucket option
                   specifies an interval "(lower_bound, upper_bound]", i.e.
                   the range excludes the lower bound and includes the upper
                   bound. lower_bound and upper_bound may be zero, meaning no
                   lower/upper bound.
                   To export the entire (0Xinf) range without overlap, use the
                   upper bound of the previous range as the lower bound of the
                   following range. In other words, use the following schema:
                     Bucket   0   1
                     Bucket   1   2
                     Bucket   2   5
                     Bucket   5  10
                     Bucket  10  20
                     Bucket  20  50
                     Bucket  50   0
                   Metrics are reported with the type set by BucketType option
                   ("bucket" by default) and the type instance
                   "<Type>[-<Instance>]-<lower_bound>_<upper_bound>".
                   This option may be repeated to calculate more than one
                   rate.
               BucketType Type
                   Sets the type used to dispatch Bucket metrics.  Optional,
                   by default "bucket" will be used.
           The Gauge* and Distribution types interpret the submatch as a
           floating point number, using strtod(3). The Counter* and
           AbsoluteSet types interpret the submatch as an unsigned integer
           using strtoull(3). The Derive* types interpret the submatch as a
           signed integer using strtoll(3). CounterInc, DeriveInc and GaugeInc
           do not use the submatch at all and it may be omitted in this case.
           The Gauge* types, unless noted otherwise, are reset to "NaN" after
           being reported. In other words, GaugeAverage reports the average of
           all values matched since the last metric was reported (or "NaN" if
           there was no match).
       Type Type
           Sets the type used to dispatch this value. Detailed information
           about types and their configuration can be found in types.db(5).
       Instance TypeInstance
           This optional setting sets the type instance to use.
   Plugin "tail_csv"
       The tail_csv plugin reads files in the CSV format, e.g. the statistics
       file written by Snort.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "tail_csv">
          <Metric "snort-dropped">
              Type "percent"
              Instance "dropped"
              ValueFrom 1
          </Metric>
          <File "/var/log/snort/snort.stats">
              Plugin "snortstats"
              Instance "eth0"
              Interval 600
              Collect "snort-dropped"
              FieldSeparator ","
              #TimeFrom 0
          </File>
        </Plugin>
       The configuration consists of one or more Metric blocks that define an
       index into the line of the CSV file and how this value is mapped to
       collectd's internal representation. These are followed by one or more
       Instance blocks which configure which file to read, in which interval
       and which metrics to extract.
       <Metric Name>
           The Metric block configures a new metric to be extracted from the
           statistics file and how it is mapped on collectd's data model. The
           string Name is only used inside the Instance blocks to refer to
           this block, so you can use one Metric block for multiple CSV files.
           Type Type
               Configures which Type to use when dispatching this metric.
               Types are defined in the types.db(5) file, see the appropriate
               manual page for more information on specifying types. Only
               types with a single data source are supported by the tail_csv
               plugin. The information whether the value is an absolute value
               (i.e. a "GAUGE") or a rate (i.e. a "DERIVE") is taken from the
               Type's definition.
           Instance TypeInstance
               If set, TypeInstance is used to populate the type instance
               field of the created value lists. Otherwise, no type instance
               is used.
           ValueFrom Index
               Configure to read the value from the field with the zero-based
               index Index.  If the value is parsed as signed integer,
               unsigned integer or double depends on the Type setting, see
               above.
       <File Path>
           Each File block represents one CSV file to read. There must be at
           least one File block but there can be multiple if you have multiple
           CSV files.
           Plugin Plugin
               Use Plugin as the plugin name when submitting values.  Defaults
               to "tail_csv".
           Instance PluginInstance
               Sets the plugin instance used when dispatching the values.
           Collect Metric
               Specifies which Metric to collect. This option must be
               specified at least once, and you can use this option multiple
               times to specify more than one metric to be extracted from this
               statistic file.
           Interval Seconds
               Configures the interval in which to read values from this
               instance / file.  Defaults to the plugin's default interval.
           TimeFrom Index
               Rather than using the local time when dispatching a value, read
               the timestamp from the field with the zero-based index Index.
               The value is interpreted as seconds since epoch. The value is
               parsed as a double and may be factional.
           FieldSeparator Character
               Specify the character to use as field separator while parsing
               the CSV.  Defaults to ',' if not specified. The value can only
               be a single character.
   Plugin "teamspeak2"
       The "teamspeak2 plugin" connects to the query port of a teamspeak2
       server and polls interesting global and virtual server data. The plugin
       can query only one physical server but unlimited virtual servers. You
       can use the following options to configure it:
       Host hostname/ip
           The hostname or ip which identifies the physical server.  Default:
           127.0.0.1
       Port port
           The query port of the physical server. This needs to be a string.
           Default: "51234"
       Server port
           This option has to be added once for every virtual server the
           plugin should query. If you want to query the virtual server on
           port 8767 this is what the option would look like:
             Server "8767"
           This option, although numeric, needs to be a string, i. e. you must
           use quotes around it! If no such statement is given only global
           information will be collected.
   Plugin "ted"
       The TED plugin connects to a device of "The Energy Detective", a device
       to measure power consumption. These devices are usually connected to a
       serial (RS232) or USB port. The plugin opens a configured device and
       tries to read the current energy readings. For more information on TED,
       visit <http://www.theenergydetective.com/>;.
       Available configuration options:
       Device Path
           Path to the device on which TED is connected. collectd will need
           read and write permissions on that file.
           Default: /dev/ttyUSB0
       Retries Num
           Apparently reading from TED is not that reliable. You can therefore
           configure a number of retries here. You only configure the retries
           here, to if you specify zero, one reading will be performed (but no
           retries if that fails); if you specify three, a maximum of four
           readings are performed. Negative values are illegal.
           Default: 0
   Plugin "tcpconns"
       The "tcpconns plugin" counts the number of currently established TCP
       connections based on the local port and/or the remote port. Since there
       may be a lot of connections the default if to count all connections
       with a local port, for which a listening socket is opened. You can use
       the following options to fine-tune the ports you are interested in:
       ListeningPorts true|false
           If this option is set to true, statistics for all local ports for
           which a listening socket exists are collected. The default depends
           on LocalPort and RemotePort (see below): If no port at all is
           specifically selected, the default is to collect listening ports.
           If specific ports (no matter if local or remote ports) are
           selected, this option defaults to false, i. e. only the selected
           ports will be collected unless this option is set to true
           specifically.
       LocalPort Port
           Count the connections to a specific local port. This can be used to
           see how many connections are handled by a specific daemon, e. g.
           the mailserver.  You have to specify the port in numeric form, so
           for the mailserver example you'd need to set 25.
       RemotePort Port
           Count the connections to a specific remote port. This is useful to
           see how much a remote service is used. This is most useful if you
           want to know how many connections a local service has opened to
           remote services, e. g. how many connections a mail server or news
           server has to other mail or news servers, or how many connections a
           web proxy holds to web servers. You have to give the port in
           numeric form.
       AllPortsSummary true|false
           If this option is set to true a summary of statistics from all
           connections are collected. This option defaults to false.
   Plugin "thermal"
       ForceUseProcfs true|false
           By default, the Thermal plugin tries to read the statistics from
           the Linux "sysfs" interface. If that is not available, the plugin
           falls back to the "procfs" interface. By setting this option to
           true, you can force the plugin to use the latter. This option
           defaults to false.
       Device Device
           Selects the name of the thermal device that you want to collect or
           ignore, depending on the value of the IgnoreSelected option. This
           option may be used multiple times to specify a list of devices.
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           Invert the selection: If set to true, all devices except the ones
           that match the device names specified by the Device option are
           collected. By default only selected devices are collected if a
           selection is made. If no selection is configured at all, all
           devices are selected.
   Plugin "threshold"
       The Threshold plugin checks values collected or received by collectd
       against a configurable threshold and issues notifications if values are
       out of bounds.
       Documentation for this plugin is available in the collectd-threshold(5)
       manual page.
   Plugin "tokyotyrant"
       The TokyoTyrant plugin connects to a TokyoTyrant server and collects a
       couple metrics: number of records, and database size on disk.
       Host Hostname/IP
           The hostname or IP which identifies the server.  Default: 127.0.0.1
       Port Service/Port
           The query port of the server. This needs to be a string, even if
           the port is given in its numeric form.  Default: 1978
   Plugin "turbostat"
       The Turbostat plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state residency on
       modern Intel processors by using Model Specific Registers.
       CoreCstates Bitmask(Integer)
           Bit mask of the list of core C-states supported by the processor.
           This option should only be used if the automated detection fails.
           Default value extracted from the CPU model and family.
           Currently supported C-states (by this plugin): 3, 6, 7
           Example:
             All states (3, 6 and 7):
             (1<<3) + (1<<6) + (1<<7) = 392
       PackageCstates Bitmask(Integer)
           Bit mask of the list of packages C-states supported by the
           processor. This option should only be used if the automated
           detection fails. Default value extracted from the CPU model and
           family.
           Currently supported C-states (by this plugin): 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
           Example:
             States 2, 3, 6 and 7:
             (1<<2) + (1<<3) + (1<<6) + (1<<7) = 396
       SystemManagementInterrupt true|false
           Boolean enabling the collection of the I/O System-Management
           Interrupt counter.  This option should only be used if the
           automated detection fails or if you want to disable this feature.
       DigitalTemperatureSensor true|false
           Boolean enabling the collection of the temperature of each core.
           This option should only be used if the automated detection fails or
           if you want to disable this feature.
       TCCActivationTemp Temperature
           Thermal Control Circuit Activation Temperature of the installed
           CPU. This temperature is used when collecting the temperature of
           cores or packages. This option should only be used if the automated
           detection fails. Default value extracted from
           MSR_IA32_TEMPERATURE_TARGET.
       RunningAveragePowerLimit Bitmask(Integer)
           Bit mask of the list of elements to be thermally monitored. This
           option should only be used if the automated detection fails or if
           you want to disable some collections. The different bits of this
           bit mask accepted by this plugin are:
           0 ('1'): Package
           1 ('2'): DRAM
           2 ('4'): Cores
           3 ('8'): Embedded graphic device
       LogicalCoreNames true|false
           Boolean enabling the use of logical core numbering for per core
           statistics.  When enabled, "cpu<n>" is used as plugin instance,
           where n is a dynamic number assigned by the kernel. Otherwise,
           "core<n>" is used if there is only one package and "pkg<n>-core<m>"
           if there is more than one, where n is the n-th core of package m.
       RestoreAffinityPolicy AllCPUs|Restore
           Reading data from CPU has side-effect: collectd process's CPU
           affinity mask changes. After reading data is completed, affinity
           mask needs to be restored.  This option allows to set restore
           policy.
           AllCPUs (the default): Restore the affinity by setting affinity to
           any/all CPUs.
           Restore: Save affinity using sched_getaffinity() before reading
           data and restore it after.
           On some systems, sched_getaffinity() will fail due to inconsistency
           of the CPU set size between userspace and kernel. In these cases
           plugin will detect the unsuccessful call and fail with an error,
           preventing data collection.  Most of configurations does not need
           to save affinity as Collectd process is allowed to run on any/all
           available CPUs.
           If you need to save and restore affinity and get errors like
           'Unable to save the CPU affinity', setting 'possible_cpus' kernel
           boot option may also help.
           See following links for details:
           <https://github.com/collectd/collectd/issues/1593>;
           <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15630>;
           <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151821>;
   Plugin "ubi"
       The Ubi plugin collects some statistics about the UBI (Unsorted Block
       Image).  Values collected are the number of bad physical eraseblocks on
       the underlying MTD (Memory Technology Device) and the maximum erase
       counter value concerning one volume.
       See following links for details:
       <http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html>;
       <http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html>;
       <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-ubi>;
       Device Name
           Select the device Name of the UBI volume. Whether it is collected
           or ignored depends on the IgnoreSelected setting, see below.
           See /"IGNORELISTS" for details.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           Sets whether selected devices, i. e. the ones matches by any of the
           Device statements, are ignored or if all other devices are ignored.
           If no Device option is configured, all devices are collected. If at
           least one Device is given and no IgnoreSelected or set to false,
           only matching disks will be collected. If IgnoreSelectedis set to
           true, all devices are collected except the ones matched.
   Plugin "unixsock"
       SocketFile Path
           Sets the socket-file which is to be created.
       SocketGroup Group
           If running as root change the group of the UNIX-socket after it has
           been created. Defaults to collectd.
       SocketPerms Permissions
           Change the file permissions of the UNIX-socket after it has been
           created. The permissions must be given as a numeric, octal value as
           you would pass to chmod(1). Defaults to 0770.
       DeleteSocket false|true
           If set to true, delete the socket file before calling bind(2), if a
           file with the given name already exists. If collectd crashes a
           socket file may be left over, preventing the daemon from opening a
           new socket when restarted.  Since this is potentially dangerous,
           this defaults to false.
   Plugin "uuid"
       This plugin, if loaded, causes the Hostname to be taken from the
       machine's UUID. The UUID is a universally unique designation for the
       machine, usually taken from the machine's BIOS. This is most useful if
       the machine is running in a virtual environment such as Xen, in which
       case the UUID is preserved across shutdowns and migration.
       The following methods are used to find the machine's UUID, in order:
       o   Check /etc/uuid (or UUIDFile).
       o   Check for UUID from HAL
           (<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal>;) if present.
       o   Check for UUID from "dmidecode" / SMBIOS.
       o   Check for UUID from Xen hypervisor.
       If no UUID can be found then the hostname is not modified.
       UUIDFile Path
           Take the UUID from the given file (default /etc/uuid).
   Plugin "varnish"
       The varnish plugin collects information about Varnish, an HTTP
       accelerator.  It collects a subset of the values displayed by
       varnishstat(1), and organizes them in categories which can be enabled
       or disabled. Currently only metrics shown in varnishstat(1)'s MAIN
       section are collected. The exact meaning of each metric can be found in
       varnish-counters(7).
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "varnish">
          <Instance "example">
            CollectBackend     true
            CollectBan         false
            CollectCache       true
            CollectConnections true
            CollectDirectorDNS false
            CollectESI         false
            CollectFetch       false
            CollectHCB         false
            CollectObjects     false
            CollectPurge       false
            CollectSession     false
            CollectSHM         true
            CollectSMA         false
            CollectSMS         false
            CollectSM          false
            CollectStruct      false
            CollectTotals      false
            CollectUptime      false
            CollectVCL         false
            CollectVSM         false
            CollectWorkers     false
            CollectLock        false
            CollectMempool     false
            CollectManagement  false
            CollectSMF         false
            CollectVBE         false
            CollectMSE         false
          </Instance>
        </Plugin>
       The configuration consists of one or more <Instance Name> blocks. Name
       is the parameter passed to "varnishd -n". If left empty, it will
       collectd statistics from the default "varnishd" instance (this should
       work fine in most cases).
       Inside each <Instance> blocks, the following options are recognized:
       CollectBackend true|false
           Back-end connection statistics, such as successful, reused, and
           closed connections. True by default.
       CollectBan true|false
           Statistics about ban operations, such as number of bans added,
           retired, and number of objects tested against ban operations. Only
           available with Varnish 3.x and above. False by default.
       CollectCache true|false
           Cache hits and misses. True by default.
       CollectConnections true|false
           Number of client connections received, accepted and dropped. True
           by default.
       CollectDirectorDNS true|false
           DNS director lookup cache statistics. Only available with Varnish
           3.x. False by default.
       CollectESI true|false
           Edge Side Includes (ESI) parse statistics. False by default.
       CollectFetch true|false
           Statistics about fetches (HTTP requests sent to the backend). False
           by default.
       CollectHCB true|false
           Inserts and look-ups in the crit bit tree based hash. Look-ups are
           divided into locked and unlocked look-ups. False by default.
       CollectObjects true|false
           Statistics on cached objects: number of objects expired, nuked
           (prematurely expired), saved, moved, etc. False by default.
       CollectPurge true|false
           Statistics about purge operations, such as number of purges added,
           retired, and number of objects tested against purge operations.
           Only available with Varnish 2.x. False by default.
       CollectSession true|false
           Client session statistics. Number of past and current sessions,
           session herd and linger counters, etc. False by default. Note that
           if using Varnish 4.x, some metrics found in the Connections and
           Threads sections with previous versions of Varnish have been moved
           here.
       CollectSHM true|false
           Statistics about the shared memory log, a memory region to store
           log messages which is flushed to disk when full. True by default.
       CollectSMA true|false
           malloc or umem (umem_alloc(3MALLOC) based) storage statistics. The
           umem storage component is Solaris specific. Note: SMA, SMF and MSE
           share counters, enable only the one used by the Varnish instance.
           Available with Varnish 2.x, varnish 4.x and above (Not available in
           varnish 3.x).  False by default.
       CollectSMS true|false
           synth (synthetic content) storage statistics. This storage
           component is used internally only. False by default.
       CollectSM true|false
           file (memory mapped file) storage statistics. Only available with
           Varnish 2.x, in varnish 4.x and above use CollectSMF.  False by
           default.
       CollectStruct true|false
           Current varnish internal state statistics. Number of current
           sessions, objects in cache store, open connections to backends
           (with Varnish 2.x), etc. False by default.
       CollectTotals true|false
           Collects overview counters, such as the number of sessions created,
           the number of requests and bytes transferred. False by default.
       CollectUptime true|false
           Varnish uptime. Only available with Varnish 3.x and above. False by
           default.
       CollectVCL true|false
           Number of total (available + discarded) VCL (config files). False
           by default.
       CollectVSM true|false
           Collect statistics about Varnish's shared memory usage (used by the
           logging and statistics subsystems). Only available with Varnish
           4.x. False by default.
       CollectWorkers true|false
           Collect statistics about worker threads. False by default.
       CollectVBE true|false
           Backend counters. Only available with Varnish 4.x and above. False
           by default.
       CollectSMF true|false
           file (memory mapped file) storage statistics. Only available with
           Varnish 4.x and above.  Note: SMA, SMF and MSE share counters,
           enable only the one used by the Varnish instance. Used to be called
           SM in Varnish 2.x. False by default.
       CollectManagement true|false
           Management process counters. Only available with Varnish 4.x and
           above. False by default.
       CollectLock true|false
           Lock counters. Only available with Varnish 4.x and above. False by
           default.
       CollectMempool true|false
           Memory pool counters. Only available with Varnish 4.x and above.
           False by default.
       CollectMSE true|false
           Varnish Massive Storage Engine 2.0 (MSE2) is an improved storage
           backend for Varnish, replacing the traditional malloc and file
           storages. Only available with Varnish-Plus 4.x and above. Note:
           SMA, SMF and MSE share counters, enable only the one used by the
           Varnish instance. False by default.
       CollectGOTO true|false
           vmod-goto counters. Only available with Varnish Plus 6.x. False by
           default.
   Plugin "virt"
       This plugin allows CPU, disk, network load and other metrics to be
       collected for virtualized guests on the machine. The statistics are
       collected through libvirt API (<http://libvirt.org/>;). Majority of
       metrics can be gathered without installing any additional software on
       guests, especially collectd, which runs only on the host system.
       Only Connection is required.
       Consider the following example config:
        <Plugin "virt">
          Connection "qemu:///system"
          HostnameFormat "hostname"
          InterfaceFormat "address"
          PluginInstanceFormat "name"
        </Plugin>
       It will generate the following values:
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/disk_octets-vda
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/disk_ops-vda
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/if_dropped-ca:fe:ca:fe:ca:fe
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/if_errors-ca:fe:ca:fe:ca:fe
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/if_octets-ca:fe:ca:fe:ca:fe
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/if_packets-ca:fe:ca:fe:ca:fe
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-actual_balloon
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-available
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-last_update
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-major_fault
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-minor_fault
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-rss
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-swap_in
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-swap_out
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-total
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-unused
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-usable
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/virt_cpu_total
         node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/virt_vcpu-0
       You can get information on the metric's units from the online libvirt
       documentation.  For instance, virt_cpu_total is in nanoseconds.
       Connection uri
           Connect to the hypervisor given by uri. For example if using Xen
           use:
            Connection "xen:///"
           Details which URIs allowed are given at
           <http://libvirt.org/uri.html>;.
       RefreshInterval seconds
           Refresh the list of domains and devices every seconds. The default
           is 60 seconds. Setting this to be the same or smaller than the
           Interval will cause the list of domains and devices to be refreshed
           on every iteration.
           Refreshing the devices in particular is quite a costly operation,
           so if your virtualization setup is static you might consider
           increasing this. If this option is set to 0, refreshing is disabled
           completely.
       Domain name
       BlockDevice name:dev
       InterfaceDevice name:dev
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           Select which domains and devices are collected.
           If IgnoreSelected is not given or false then only the listed
           domains and disk/network devices are collected.
           If IgnoreSelected is true then the test is reversed and the listed
           domains and disk/network devices are ignored, while the rest are
           collected.
           The domain name and device names may use a regular expression, if
           the name is surrounded by /.../ and collectd was compiled with
           support for regexps.
           The default is to collect statistics for all domains and all their
           devices.
           Note: BlockDevice and InterfaceDevice options are related to
           corresponding *Format options. Specifically, BlockDevice filtering
           depends on BlockDeviceFormat setting - if user wants to filter
           block devices by 'target' name then BlockDeviceFormat option has to
           be set to 'target' and BlockDevice option must be set to a valid
           block device target name("/:hdb/"). Mixing formats and filter
           values from different worlds (i.e., using 'target' name as
           BlockDevice value with BlockDeviceFormat set to 'source') may lead
           to unexpected results (all devices filtered out or all visible,
           depending on the value of IgnoreSelected option).  Similarly,
           option InterfaceDevice is related to InterfaceFormat setting (i.e.,
           when user wants to use MAC address as a filter then InterfaceFormat
           has to be set to 'address' - using wrong type here may filter out
           all of the interfaces).
           Example 1:
           Ignore all hdb devices on any domain, but other block devices (eg.
           hda) will be collected:
            BlockDevice "/:hdb/"
            IgnoreSelected "true"
            BlockDeviceFormat "target"
           Example 2:
           Collect metrics only for block device on 'baremetal0' domain when
           its 'source' matches given path:
            BlockDevice "baremetal0:/var/lib/libvirt/images/baremetal0.qcow2"
            BlockDeviceFormat source
           As you can see it is possible to filter devices/interfaces using
           various formats - for block devices 'target' or 'source' name can
           be used.  Interfaces can be filtered using 'name', 'address' or
           'number'.
           Example 3:
           Collect metrics only for domains 'baremetal0' and 'baremetal1' and
           ignore any other domain:
            Domain "baremetal0"
            Domain "baremetal1"
           It is possible to filter multiple block devices/domains/interfaces
           by adding multiple filtering entries in separate lines.
       BlockDeviceFormat target|source
           If BlockDeviceFormat is set to target, the default, then the device
           name seen by the guest will be used for reporting metrics.  This
           corresponds to the "<target>" node in the XML definition of the
           domain.
           If BlockDeviceFormat is set to source, then metrics will be
           reported using the path of the source, e.g. an image file.  This
           corresponds to the "<source>" node in the XML definition of the
           domain.
           Example:
           If the domain XML have the following device defined:
             <disk type='block' device='disk'>
               <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none' io='native' discard='unmap'/>
               <source dev='/var/lib/libvirt/images/image1.qcow2'/>
               <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
               <boot order='2'/>
               <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
             </disk>
           Setting "BlockDeviceFormat target" will cause the type instance to
           be set to "sda".  Setting "BlockDeviceFormat source" will cause the
           type instance to be set to "var_lib_libvirt_images_image1.qcow2".
           Note: this option determines also what field will be used for
           filtering over block devices (filter value in BlockDevice will be
           applied to target or source). More info about filtering block
           devices can be found in the description of BlockDevice.
       BlockDeviceFormatBasename false|true
           The BlockDeviceFormatBasename controls whether the full path or the
           basename(1) of the source is being used as the type instance when
           BlockDeviceFormat is set to source. Defaults to false.
           Example:
           Assume the device path (source tag) is
           "/var/lib/libvirt/images/image1.qcow2".  Setting
           "BlockDeviceFormatBasename false" will cause the type instance to
           be set to "var_lib_libvirt_images_image1.qcow2".  Setting
           "BlockDeviceFormatBasename true" will cause the type instance to be
           set to "image1.qcow2".
       HostnameFormat name|uuid|hostname|metadata...
           When the virt plugin logs data, it sets the hostname of the
           collected data according to this setting. The default is to use the
           guest name as provided by the hypervisor, which is equal to setting
           name.
           uuid means use the guest's UUID. This is useful if you want to
           track the same guest across migrations.
           hostname means to use the global Hostname setting, which is
           probably not useful on its own because all guests will appear to
           have the same name. This is useful in conjunction with
           PluginInstanceFormat though.
           metadata means use information from guest's metadata. Use
           HostnameMetadataNS and HostnameMetadataXPath to localize this
           information.
           You can also specify combinations of these fields. For example name
           uuid means to concatenate the guest name and UUID (with a literal
           colon character between, thus "foo:1234-1234-1234-1234").
           At the moment of writing (collectd-5.5), hostname string is limited
           to 62 characters. In case when combination of fields exceeds 62
           characters, hostname will be truncated without a warning.
       InterfaceFormat name|address|number
           When the virt plugin logs interface data, it sets the name of the
           collected data according to this setting. The default is to use the
           path as provided by the hypervisor (the "dev" property of the
           target node), which is equal to setting name.
           address means use the interface's mac address. This is useful since
           the interface path might change between reboots of a guest or
           across migrations.
           number means use the interface's number in guest.
           Note: this option determines also what field will be used for
           filtering over interface device (filter value in InterfaceDevice
           will be applied to name, address or number).  More info about
           filtering interfaces can be found in the description of
           InterfaceDevice.
       PluginInstanceFormat name|uuid|metadata|none
           When the virt plugin logs data, it sets the plugin_instance of the
           collected data according to this setting. The default is to not set
           the plugin_instance.
           name means use the guest's name as provided by the hypervisor.
           uuid means use the guest's UUID.  metadata means use information
           from guest's metadata.
           You can also specify combinations of the name and uuid fields.  For
           example name uuid means to concatenate the guest name and UUID
           (with a literal colon character between, thus
           "foo:1234-1234-1234-1234").
       HostnameMetadataNS string
           When metadata is used in HostnameFormat or PluginInstanceFormat,
           this selects in which metadata namespace we will pick the hostname.
           The default is http://openstack.org/xmlns/libvirt/nova/1.0.
       HostnameMetadataXPath string
           When metadata is used in HostnameFormat or PluginInstanceFormat,
           this describes where the hostname is located in the libvirt
           metadata. The default is /instance/name/text().
       ReportBlockDevices true|false
           Enabled by default. Allows to disable stats reporting of block
           devices for whole plugin.
       ReportNetworkInterfaces true|false
           Enabled by default. Allows to disable stats reporting of network
           interfaces for whole plugin.
       ExtraStats string
           Report additional extra statistics. The default is no extra
           statistics, preserving the previous behaviour of the plugin. If
           unsure, leave the default. If enabled, allows the plugin to
           reported more detailed statistics about the behaviour of Virtual
           Machines. The argument is a space-separated list of selectors.
           Currently supported selectors are:
           cpu_util: report CPU utilization per domain in percentage.
           disk: report extra statistics like number of flush operations and
           total service time for read, write and flush operations. Requires
           libvirt API version 0.9.5 or later.
           disk_err: report disk errors if any occured. Requires libvirt API
           version 0.9.10 or later.
           domain_state: report domain state and reason as 'domain_state'
           metric.
           fs_info: report file system information as a notification. Requires
           libvirt API version 1.2.11 or later. Can be collected only if Guest
           Agent is installed and configured inside VM. Make sure that
           installed Guest Agent version supports retrieving  file system
           information.
           job_stats_background: report statistics about progress of a
           background job on a domain. Only one type of job statistics can be
           collected at the same time. Requires libvirt API version 1.2.9 or
           later.
           job_stats_completed: report statistics about a recently completed
           job on a domain. Only one type of job statistics can be collected
           at the same time. Requires libvirt API version 1.2.9 or later.
           memory: report statistics about memory usage details, provided by
           libvirt virDomainMemoryStats() function.
           pcpu: report the physical user/system cpu time consumed by the
           hypervisor, per-vm. Requires libvirt API version 0.9.11 or later.
           perf: report performance monitoring events. To collect performance
           metrics they must be enabled for domain and supported by the
           platform. Requires libvirt API version 1.3.3 or later. Note: perf
           metrics can't be collected if intel_rdt plugin is enabled.
           vcpu: report domain virtual CPUs utilisation.
           vcpupin: report pinning of domain VCPUs to host physical CPUs.
           disk_physical: report 'disk_physical' statistic for disk device.
           Note: This statistic is only reported for disk devices with
           'source' property available.
           disk_allocation: report 'disk_allocation' statistic for disk
           device. Note: This statistic is only reported for disk devices with
           'source' property available.
           disk_capacity: report 'disk_capacity' statistic for disk device.
           Note: This statistic is only reported for disk devices with
           'source' property available.
       PersistentNotification true|false
           Override default configuration to only send notifications when
           there is a change in the lifecycle state of a domain. When set to
           true notifications will be sent for every read cycle. Default is
           false. Does not affect the stats being dispatched.
       Instances integer
           How many read instances you want to use for this plugin. The
           default is one, and the sensible setting is a multiple of the
           ReadThreads value.
           This option is only useful when domains are specially tagged.  If
           you are not sure, just use the default setting.
           The reader instance will only query the domains with attached
           matching tag.  Tags should have the form of 'virt-X' where X is the
           reader instance number, starting from 0.
           The special-purpose reader instance #0, guaranteed to be always
           present, will query all the domains with missing or unrecognized
           tag, so no domain will ever be left out.
           Domain tagging is done with a custom attribute in the libvirt
           domain metadata section. Value is selected by an XPath
           /domain/metadata/ovirtmap/tag/text() expression in the
           http://ovirt.org/ovirtmap/tag/1.0 namespace.  (XPath and namespace
           values are not configurable yet).
           Tagging could be used by management applications to evenly spread
           the load among the reader threads, or to pin on the same threads
           all the libvirt domains which use the same shared storage, to
           minimize the disruption in presence of storage outages.
   Plugin "vmem"
       The "vmem" plugin collects information about the usage of virtual
       memory.  Since the statistics provided by the Linux kernel are very
       detailed, they are collected very detailed. However, to get all the
       details, you have to switch them on manually. Most people just want an
       overview over, such as the number of pages read from swap space.
       Verbose true|false
           Enables verbose collection of information. This will start
           collecting page "actions", e. g. page allocations, (de)activations,
           steals and so on.  Part of these statistics are collected on a "per
           zone" basis.
   Plugin "vserver"
       This plugin doesn't have any options. VServer support is only available
       for Linux. It cannot yet be found in a vanilla kernel, though. To make
       use of this plugin you need a kernel that has VServer support built in,
       i. e. you need to apply the patches and compile your own kernel, which
       will then provide the /proc/virtual filesystem that is required by this
       plugin.
       The VServer homepage can be found at <http://linux-vserver.org/>;.
       Note: The traffic collected by this plugin accounts for the amount of
       traffic passing a socket which might be a lot less than the actual on-
       wire traffic (e. g. due to headers and retransmission). If you want to
       collect on-wire traffic you could, for example, use the logging
       facilities of iptables to feed data for the guest IPs into the iptables
       plugin.
   Plugin "write_graphite"
       The "write_graphite" plugin writes data to Graphite, an open-source
       metrics storage and graphing project. The plugin connects to Carbon,
       the data layer of Graphite, via TCP or UDP and sends data via the "line
       based" protocol (per default using port 2003). The data will be sent in
       blocks of at most 1428 bytes to minimize the number of network packets.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin write_graphite>
          <Node "example">
            Host "localhost"
            Port "2003"
            Protocol "tcp"
            LogSendErrors true
            Prefix "collectd"
            UseTags false
            ReverseHost false
          </Node>
        </Plugin>
       The configuration consists of one or more <Node Name> blocks. Inside
       the Node blocks, the following options are recognized:
       Host Address
           Hostname or address to connect to. Defaults to "localhost".
       Port Service
           Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to 2003.
       Protocol String
           Protocol to use when connecting to Graphite. Defaults to "tcp".
       ReconnectInterval Seconds
           When set to non-zero, forces the connection to the Graphite backend
           to be closed and re-opend periodically. This behavior is desirable
           in environments where the connection to the Graphite backend is
           done through load balancers, for example. When set to zero, the
           default, the connetion is kept open for as long as possible.
       LogSendErrors false|true
           If set to true (the default), logs errors when sending data to
           Graphite.  If set to false, it will not log the errors. This is
           especially useful when using Protocol UDP since many times we want
           to use the "fire-and-forget" approach and logging errors fills
           syslog with unneeded messages.
       Prefix String
           When UseTags is false, Prefix value is added in front of the host
           name.  When UseTags is true, Prefix value is added in front of
           series name.
           Dots and whitespace are not escaped in this string (see
           EscapeCharacter below).
       Postfix String
           When UseTags is false, Postfix value appended to the host name.
           When UseTags is true, Postgix value appended to the end of series
           name (before the first ; that separates the name from the tags).
           Dots and whitespace are not escaped in this string (see
           EscapeCharacter below).
       EscapeCharacter Char
           Carbon uses the dot (".") as escape character and doesn't allow
           whitespace in the identifier. The EscapeCharacter option determines
           which character dots, whitespace and control characters are
           replaced with. Defaults to underscore ("_").
       StoreRates false|true
           If set to true (the default), convert counter values to rates. If
           set to false counter values are stored as is, i. e. as an
           increasing integer number.
       SeparateInstances false|true
           If set to true, the plugin instance and type instance will be in
           their own path component, for example "host.cpu.0.cpu.idle". If set
           to false (the default), the plugin and plugin instance (and
           likewise the type and type instance) are put into one component,
           for example "host.cpu-0.cpu-idle".
           Option value is not used when UseTags is true.
       AlwaysAppendDS false|true
           If set to true, append the name of the Data Source (DS) to the
           "metric" identifier. If set to false (the default), this is only
           done when there is more than one DS.
       PreserveSeparator false|true
           If set to false (the default) the "." (dot) character is replaced
           with EscapeCharacter. Otherwise, if set to true, the "." (dot)
           character is preserved, i.e. passed through.
           Option value is not used when UseTags is true.
       DropDuplicateFields false|true
           If set to true, detect and remove duplicate components in Graphite
           metric names. For example, the metric name
           "host.load.load.shortterm" will be shortened to
           "host.load.shortterm".
       UseTags false|true
           If set to true, Graphite metric names will be generated as tagged
           series.  This allows for much more flexibility than the traditional
           hierarchical layout.
           Example:
           "test.single;host=example.com;plugin=test;plugin_instance=foo;type=single;type_instance=bar"
           You can use Postfix option to add more tags by specifying it like
           ";tag1=value1;tag2=value2". Note what tagging support was added
           since Graphite version 1.1.x.
           If set to true, the SeparateInstances and PreserveSeparator
           settings are not used.
           Default value: false.
       ReverseHost false|true
           If set to true, the (dot separated) parts of the host field of the
           value list will be rewritten in reverse order. The rewrite happens
           before special characters are replaced with the EscapeCharacter.
           This option might be convenient if the metrics are presented with
           Graphite in a DNS like tree structure (probably without replacing
           dots in hostnames).
           Example:
            Hostname "node3.cluster1.example.com"
            LoadPlugin "cpu"
            LoadPlugin "write_graphite"
            <Plugin "write_graphite">
             <Node "graphite.example.com">
              EscapeCharacter "."
              ReverseHost true
             </Node>
            </Plugin>
            result on the wire: com.example.cluster1.node3.cpu-0.cpu-idle 99.900993 1543010932
           Default value: false.
   Plugin "write_log"
       The "write_log" plugin writes metrics as INFO log messages.
       This plugin supports two output formats: Graphite and JSON.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin write_log>
          Format Graphite
        </Plugin>
       Format Format
           The output format to use. Can be one of "Graphite" or "JSON".
   Plugin "write_tsdb"
       The "write_tsdb" plugin writes data to OpenTSDB, a scalable open-source
       time series database. The plugin connects to a TSD, a masterless, no
       shared state daemon that ingests metrics and stores them in HBase. The
       plugin uses TCP over the "line based" protocol with a default port
       4242. The data will be sent in blocks of at most 1428 bytes to minimize
       the number of network packets.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin write_tsdb>
          ResolveInterval 60
          ResolveJitter 60
          <Node "example">
            Host "tsd-1.my.domain"
            Port "4242"
            HostTags "status=production"
          </Node>
        </Plugin>
       The configuration consists of one or more <Node Name> blocks and global
       directives.
       Global directives are:
       ResolveInterval seconds
       ResolveJitter seconds
           When collectd connects to a TSDB node, it will request the hostname
           from DNS. This can become a problem if the TSDB node is unavailable
           or badly configured because collectd will request DNS in order to
           reconnect for every metric, which can flood your DNS. So you can
           cache the last value for ResolveInterval seconds.  Defaults to the
           Interval of the write_tsdb plugin, e.g. 10 seconds.
           You can also define a jitter, a random interval to wait in addition
           to ResolveInterval. This prevents all your collectd servers to
           resolve the hostname at the same time when the connection fails.
           Defaults to the Interval of the write_tsdb plugin, e.g. 10 seconds.
           Note: If the DNS resolution has already been successful when the
           socket closes, the plugin will try to reconnect immediately with
           the cached information. DNS is queried only when the socket is
           closed for a longer than ResolveInterval + ResolveJitter seconds.
       Inside the Node blocks, the following options are recognized:
       Host Address
           Hostname or address to connect to. Defaults to "localhost".
       Port Service
           Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to 4242.
       HostTags String
           When set, HostTags is added to the end of the metric. It is
           intended to be used for name=value pairs that the TSD will tag the
           metric with. Dots and whitespace are not escaped in this string.
       StoreRates false|true
           If set to true, convert counter values to rates. If set to false
           (the default) counter values are stored as is, as an increasing
           integer number.
       AlwaysAppendDS false|true
           If set the true, append the name of the Data Source (DS) to the
           "metric" identifier. If set to false (the default), this is only
           done when there is more than one DS.
   Plugin "write_mongodb"
       The write_mongodb plugin will send values to MongoDB, a schema-less
       NoSQL database.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "write_mongodb">
          <Node "default">
            Host "localhost"
            Port "27017"
            Timeout 1000
            StoreRates true
          </Node>
        </Plugin>
       The plugin can send values to multiple instances of MongoDB by
       specifying one Node block for each instance. Within the Node blocks,
       the following options are available:
       Host Address
           Hostname or address to connect to. Defaults to "localhost".
       Port Service
           Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to 27017.
       Timeout Milliseconds
           Set the timeout for each operation on MongoDB to Timeout
           milliseconds.  Setting this option to zero means no timeout, which
           is the default.
       StoreRates false|true
           If set to true (the default), convert counter values to rates. If
           set to false counter values are stored as is, i.e. as an increasing
           integer number.
       Database Database
       User User
       Password Password
           Sets the information used when authenticating to a MongoDB
           database. The fields are optional (in which case no authentication
           is attempted), but if you want to use authentication all three
           fields must be set.
   Plugin "write_prometheus"
       The write_prometheus plugin implements a tiny webserver that can be
       scraped using Prometheus.
       Options:
       Host Host
           Bind to the hostname / address Host. By default, the plugin will
           bind to the "any" address, i.e. accept packets sent to any of the
           hosts addresses.
           This option is supported only for libmicrohttpd newer than 0.9.0.
       Port Port
           Port the embedded webserver should listen on. Defaults to 9103.
       StalenessDelta Seconds
           Time in seconds after which Prometheus considers a metric "stale"
           if it hasn't seen any update for it. This value must match the
           setting in Prometheus.  It defaults to 300 seconds (5 minutes),
           same as Prometheus.
           Background:
           Prometheus has a global setting, "StalenessDelta", which controls
           after which time a metric without updates is considered "stale".
           This setting effectively puts an upper limit on the interval in
           which metrics are reported.
           When the write_prometheus plugin encounters a metric with an
           interval exceeding this limit, it will inform you, the user, and
           provide the metric to Prometheus without a timestamp. That causes
           Prometheus to consider the metric "fresh" each time it is scraped,
           with the time of the scrape being considered the time of the
           update. The result is that there appear more datapoints in
           Prometheus than were actually created, but at least the metric
           doesn't disappear periodically.
   Plugin "write_http"
       This output plugin submits values to an HTTP server using POST requests
       and encoding metrics with JSON or using the "PUTVAL" command described
       in collectd-unixsock(5).
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "write_http">
          <Node "example">
            URL "http://example.com/post-collectd"
            User "collectd"
            Password "weCh3ik0"
            Format JSON
          </Node>
        </Plugin>
       The plugin can send values to multiple HTTP servers by specifying one
       <Node Name> block for each server. Within each Node block, the
       following options are available:
       URL URL
           URL to which the values are submitted to. Mandatory.
       User Username
           Optional user name needed for authentication.
       Password Password
           Optional password needed for authentication.
       VerifyPeer true|false
           Enable or disable peer SSL certificate verification. See
           <http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html>; for details. Enabled by
           default.
       VerifyHost true|false
           Enable or disable peer host name verification. If enabled, the
           plugin checks if the "Common Name" or a "Subject Alternate Name"
           field of the SSL certificate matches the host name provided by the
           URL option. If this identity check fails, the connection is
           aborted. Obviously, only works when connecting to a SSL enabled
           server. Enabled by default.
       CACert File
           File that holds one or more SSL certificates. If you want to use
           HTTPS you will possibly need this option. What CA certificates come
           bundled with "libcurl" and are checked by default depends on the
           distribution you use.
       CAPath Directory
           Directory holding one or more CA certificate files. You can use
           this if for some reason all the needed CA certificates aren't in
           the same file and can't be pointed to using the CACert option.
           Requires "libcurl" to be built against OpenSSL.
       ClientKey File
           File that holds the private key in PEM format to be used for
           certificate-based authentication.
       ClientCert File
           File that holds the SSL certificate to be used for certificate-
           based authentication.
       ClientKeyPass Password
           Password required to load the private key in ClientKey.
       Header Header
           A HTTP header to add to the request.  Multiple headers are added if
           this option is specified more than once.  Example:
             Header "X-Custom-Header: custom_value"
       SSLVersion SSLv2|SSLv3|TLSv1|TLSv1_0|TLSv1_1|TLSv1_2
           Define which SSL protocol version must be used. By default
           "libcurl" will attempt to figure out the remote SSL protocol
           version. See curl_easy_setopt(3) for more details.
       Format Command|JSON|KAIROSDB
           Format of the output to generate. If set to Command, will create
           output that is understood by the Exec and UnixSock plugins. When
           set to JSON, will create output in the JavaScript Object Notation
           (JSON). When set to KAIROSDB , will create output in the KairosDB
           format.
           Defaults to Command.
       Attribute String String
           Only available for the KAIROSDB output format.
           Consider the two given strings to be the key and value of an
           additional tag for each metric being sent out.
           You can add multiple Attribute.
       TTL Int
           Only available for the KAIROSDB output format.
           Sets the Cassandra ttl for the data points.
           Please refer to
           <http://kairosdb.github.io/docs/build/html/restapi/AddDataPoints.html?highlight=ttl>;
       Prefix String
           Only available for the KAIROSDB output format.
           Sets the metrics prefix string. Defaults to collectd.
       Metrics true|false
           Controls whether metrics are POSTed to this location. Defaults to
           true.
       Notifications false|true
           Controls whether notifications are POSTed to this location.
           Defaults to false.
       StoreRates true|false
           If set to true, convert counter values to rates. If set to false
           (the default) counter values are stored as is, i.e. as an
           increasing integer number.
       BufferSize Bytes
           Sets the send buffer size to Bytes. By increasing this buffer, less
           HTTP requests will be generated, but more metrics will be batched /
           metrics are cached for longer before being sent, introducing
           additional delay until they are available on the server side. Bytes
           must be at least 1024 and cannot exceed the size of an "int", i.e.
           2 GByte.  Defaults to 4096.
       LowSpeedLimit Bytes per Second
           Sets the minimal transfer rate in Bytes per Second below which the
           connection with the HTTP server will be considered too slow and
           aborted. All the data submitted over this connection will probably
           be lost. Defaults to 0, which means no minimum transfer rate is
           enforced.
       Timeout Timeout
           Sets the maximum time in milliseconds given for HTTP POST
           operations to complete. When this limit is reached, the POST
           operation will be aborted, and all the data in the current send
           buffer will probably be lost. Defaults to 0, which means the
           connection never times out.
       LogHttpError false|true
           Enables printing of HTTP error code to log. Turned off by default.
       <Statistics Name>
           One Statistics block can be used to specify cURL statistics to be
           collected for each request to the remote URL. See the section "cURL
           Statistics" above for details.
           The "write_http" plugin regularly submits the collected values to
           the HTTP server. How frequently this happens depends on how much
           data you are collecting and the size of BufferSize. The optimal
           value to set Timeout to is slightly below this interval, which you
           can estimate by monitoring the network traffic between collectd and
           the HTTP server.
   Plugin "write_influxdb_udp"
       The write_influxdb_udp plugin sends data to a instance of InfluxDB
       using the "Line Protocol". Each plugin is sent as a measurement with a
       time precision of miliseconds while plugin instance, type and type
       instance are sent as tags.
        <Plugin "write_influxdb_udp">
          Server "influxdb.internal.tld"
          StoreRates "yes"
        </Plugin>
       <Server Host [Port]>
           The Server statement sets the server to send datagrams to.
           The argument Host may be a hostname, an IPv4 address or an IPv6
           address. The optional second argument specifies a port number or a
           service name. If not given, the default, 8089, is used.
       TimeToLive 1-255
           Set the time-to-live of sent packets. This applies to all, unicast
           and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6 packets. The default is to not
           change this value.  That means that multicast packets will be sent
           with a TTL of 1 (one) on most operating systems.
       MaxPacketSize 1024-65535
           Set the maximum size for datagrams received over the network.
           Packets larger than this will be truncated. Defaults to 1452 bytes,
           which is the maximum payload size that can be transmitted in one
           Ethernet frame using IPv6 / UDP.
       StoreRates true|false
           If set to true, convert absolute, counter and derive values to
           rates. If set to false (the default) absolute, counter and derive
           values are sent as is.
   Plugin "write_kafka"
       The write_kafka plugin will send values to a Kafka topic, a distributed
       queue.  Synopsis:
        <Plugin "write_kafka">
          Property "metadata.broker.list" "broker1:9092,broker2:9092"
          <Topic "collectd">
            Format JSON
          </Topic>
        </Plugin>
       The following options are understood by the write_kafka plugin:
       <Topic Name>
           The plugin's configuration consists of one or more Topic blocks.
           Each block is given a unique Name and specifies one kafka producer.
           Inside the Topic block, the following per-topic options are
           understood:
           Property String String
               Configure the named property for the current topic. Properties
               are forwarded to the kafka producer library librdkafka.
           Key String
               Use the specified string as a partitioning key for the topic.
               Kafka breaks topic into partitions and guarantees that for a
               given topology, the same consumer will be used for a specific
               key. The special (case insensitive) string Random can be used
               to specify that an arbitrary partition should be used.
           Format Command|JSON|Graphite
               Selects the format in which messages are sent to the broker. If
               set to Command (the default), values are sent as "PUTVAL"
               commands which are identical to the syntax used by the Exec and
               UnixSock plugins.
               If set to JSON, the values are encoded in the JavaScript Object
               Notation, an easy and straight forward exchange format.
               If set to Graphite, values are encoded in the Graphite format,
               which is "<metric> <value> <timestamp>\n".
           StoreRates true|false
               Determines whether or not "COUNTER", "DERIVE" and "ABSOLUTE"
               data sources are converted to a rate (i.e. a "GAUGE" value). If
               set to false (the default), no conversion is performed.
               Otherwise the conversion is performed using the internal value
               cache.
               Please note that currently this option is only used if the
               Format option has been set to JSON.
           GraphitePrefix (Format=Graphite only)
               A prefix can be added in the metric name when outputting in the
               Graphite format.
               When GraphiteUseTags is false, prefix is added before the Host
               name.  Metric name will be
               "<prefix><host><postfix><plugin><type><name>"
               When GraphiteUseTags is true, prefix is added in front of
               series name.
           GraphitePostfix (Format=Graphite only)
               A postfix can be added in the metric name when outputting in
               the Graphite format.
               When GraphiteUseTags is false, postfix is added after the Host
               name.  Metric name will be
               "<prefix><host><postfix><plugin><type><name>"
               When GraphiteUseTags is true, prefix value appended to the end
               of series name (before the first ; that separates the name from
               the tags).
           GraphiteEscapeChar (Format=Graphite only)
               Specify a character to replace dots (.) in the host part of the
               metric name.  In Graphite metric name, dots are used as
               separators between different metric parts (host, plugin, type).
               Default is "_" (Underscore).
           GraphiteSeparateInstances false|true
               If set to true, the plugin instance and type instance will be
               in their own path component, for example "host.cpu.0.cpu.idle".
               If set to false (the default), the plugin and plugin instance
               (and likewise the type and type instance) are put into one
               component, for example "host.cpu-0.cpu-idle".
               Option value is not used when GraphiteUseTags is true.
           GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS true|false
               If set to true, append the name of the Data Source (DS) to the
               "metric" identifier. If set to false (the default), this is
               only done when there is more than one DS.
           GraphitePreserveSeparator false|true
               If set to false (the default) the "." (dot) character is
               replaced with GraphiteEscapeChar. Otherwise, if set to true,
               the "." (dot) character is preserved, i.e. passed through.
               Option value is not used when GraphiteUseTags is true.
           GraphiteUseTags false|true
               If set to true Graphite metric names will be generated as
               tagged series.
               Default value: false.
           StoreRates true|false
               If set to true (the default), convert counter values to rates.
               If set to false counter values are stored as is, i.e. as an
               increasing integer number.
               This will be reflected in the "ds_type" tag: If StoreRates is
               enabled, converted values will have "rate" appended to the data
               source type, e.g.  "ds_type:derive:rate".
       Property String String
           Configure the kafka producer through properties, you almost always
           will want to set metadata.broker.list to your Kafka broker list.
   Plugin "write_redis"
       The write_redis plugin submits values to Redis, a data structure
       server.
       Synopsis:
         <Plugin "write_redis">
           <Node "example">
               Host "localhost"
               Port "6379"
               Timeout 1000
               Prefix "collectd/"
               Database 1
               MaxSetSize -1
               MaxSetDuration -1
               StoreRates true
           </Node>
         </Plugin>
       Values are submitted to Sorted Sets, using the metric name as the key,
       and the timestamp as the score. Retrieving a date range can then be
       done using the "ZRANGEBYSCORE" Redis command. Additionally, all the
       identifiers of these Sorted Sets are kept in a Set called
       "collectd/values" (or "${prefix}/values" if the Prefix option was
       specified) and can be retrieved using the "SMEMBERS" Redis command. You
       can specify the database to use with the Database parameter (default is
       0). See <http://redis.io/commands#sorted_set>; and
       <http://redis.io/commands#set>; for details.
       The information shown in the synopsis above is the default
       configuration which is used by the plugin if no configuration is
       present.
       The plugin can send values to multiple instances of Redis by specifying
       one Node block for each instance. Within the Node blocks, the following
       options are available:
       Node Nodename
           The Node block identifies a new Redis node, that is a new Redis
           instance running on a specified host and port. The node name is a
           canonical identifier which is used as plugin instance. It is
           limited to 51 characters in length.
       Host Hostname
           The Host option is the hostname or IP-address where the Redis
           instance is running on.
       Port Port
           The Port option is the TCP port on which the Redis instance accepts
           connections. Either a service name of a port number may be given.
           Please note that numerical port numbers must be given as a string,
           too.
       Timeout Milliseconds
           The Timeout option sets the socket connection timeout, in
           milliseconds.
       Prefix Prefix
           Prefix used when constructing the name of the Sorted Sets and the
           Set containing all metrics. Defaults to "collectd/", so metrics
           will have names like "collectd/cpu-0/cpu-user". When setting this
           to something different, it is recommended but not required to
           include a trailing slash in Prefix.
       Database Index
           This index selects the redis database to use for writing
           operations. Defaults to 0.
       MaxSetSize Items
           The MaxSetSize option limits the number of items that the Sorted
           Sets can hold. Negative values for Items sets no limit, which is
           the default behavior.
       MaxSetDuration Seconds
           The MaxSetDuration option limits the duration of items that the
           Sorted Sets can hold. Negative values for Items sets no duration,
           which is the default behavior.
       StoreRates true|false
           If set to true (the default), convert counter values to rates. If
           set to false counter values are stored as is, i.e. as an increasing
           integer number.
   Plugin "write_riemann"
       The write_riemann plugin will send values to Riemann, a powerful stream
       aggregation and monitoring system. The plugin sends Protobuf encoded
       data to Riemann using UDP packets.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "write_riemann">
          <Node "example">
            Host "localhost"
            Port "5555"
            Protocol UDP
            StoreRates true
            AlwaysAppendDS false
            TTLFactor 2.0
          </Node>
          Tag "foobar"
          Attribute "foo" "bar"
        </Plugin>
       The following options are understood by the write_riemann plugin:
       <Node Name>
           The plugin's configuration consists of one or more Node blocks.
           Each block is given a unique Name and specifies one connection to
           an instance of Riemann. Indise the Node block, the following per-
           connection options are understood:
           Host Address
               Hostname or address to connect to. Defaults to "localhost".
           Port Service
               Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to 5555.
           Protocol UDP|TCP|TLS
               Specify the protocol to use when communicating with Riemann.
               Defaults to TCP.
           TLSCertFile Path
               When using the TLS protocol, path to a PEM certificate to
               present to remote host.
           TLSCAFile Path
               When using the TLS protocol, path to a PEM CA certificate to
               use to validate the remote hosts's identity.
           TLSKeyFile Path
               When using the TLS protocol, path to a PEM private key
               associated with the certificate defined by TLSCertFile.
           Batch true|false
               If set to true and Protocol is set to TCP, events will be
               batched in memory and flushed at regular intervals or when
               BatchMaxSize is exceeded.
               Notifications are not batched and sent as soon as possible.
               When enabled, it can occur that events get processed by the
               Riemann server close to or after their expiration time. Tune
               the TTLFactor and BatchMaxSize settings according to the amount
               of values collected, if this is an issue.
               Defaults to true
           BatchMaxSize size
               Maximum payload size for a riemann packet. Defaults to 8192
           BatchFlushTimeout seconds
               Maximum amount of seconds to wait in between to batch flushes.
               No timeout by default.
           StoreRates true|false
               If set to true (the default), convert counter values to rates.
               If set to false counter values are stored as is, i.e. as an
               increasing integer number.
               This will be reflected in the "ds_type" tag: If StoreRates is
               enabled, converted values will have "rate" appended to the data
               source type, e.g.  "ds_type:derive:rate".
           AlwaysAppendDS false|true
               If set to true, append the name of the Data Source (DS) to the
               "service", i.e. the field that, together with the "host" field,
               uniquely identifies a metric in Riemann. If set to false (the
               default), this is only done when there is more than one DS.
           TTLFactor Factor
               Riemann events have a Time to Live (TTL) which specifies how
               long each event is considered active. collectd populates this
               field based on the metrics interval setting. This setting
               controls the factor with which the interval is multiplied to
               set the TTL. The default value is 2.0. Unless you know exactly
               what you're doing, you should only increase this setting from
               its default value.
           Notifications false|true
               If set to true, create riemann events for notifications. This
               is true by default. When processing thresholds from
               write_riemann, it might prove useful to avoid getting
               notification events.
           CheckThresholds false|true
               If set to true, attach state to events based on thresholds
               defined in the Threshold plugin. Defaults to false.
           EventServicePrefix String
               Add the given string as a prefix to the event service name.  If
               EventServicePrefix not set or set to an empty string (""), no
               prefix will be used.
       Tag String
           Add the given string as an additional tag to the metric being sent
           to Riemann.
       Attribute String String
           Consider the two given strings to be the key and value of an
           additional attribute for each metric being sent out to Riemann.
   Plugin "write_sensu"
       The write_sensu plugin will send values to Sensu, a powerful stream
       aggregation and monitoring system. The plugin sends JSON encoded data
       to a local Sensu client using a TCP socket.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "write_sensu">
          <Node "example">
            Host "localhost"
            Port "3030"
            StoreRates true
            AlwaysAppendDS false
            IncludeSource false
            MetricHandler "influx"
            MetricHandler "default"
            NotificationHandler "flapjack"
            NotificationHandler "howling_monkey"
            Notifications true
          </Node>
          Tag "foobar"
          Attribute "foo" "bar"
        </Plugin>
       The following options are understood by the write_sensu plugin:
       <Node Name>
           The plugin's configuration consists of one or more Node blocks.
           Each block is given a unique Name and specifies one connection to
           an instance of Sensu. Inside the Node block, the following per-
           connection options are understood:
           Host Address
               Hostname or address to connect to. Defaults to "localhost".
           Port Service
               Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to 3030.
           StoreRates true|false
               If set to true (the default), convert counter values to rates.
               If set to false counter values are stored as is, i.e. as an
               increasing integer number.
               This will be reflected in the "collectd_data_source_type" tag:
               If StoreRates is enabled, converted values will have "rate"
               appended to the data source type, e.g.
               "collectd_data_source_type:derive:rate".
           AlwaysAppendDS false|true
               If set the true, append the name of the Data Source (DS) to the
               "service", i.e. the field that, together with the "host" field,
               uniquely identifies a metric in Sensu. If set to false (the
               default), this is only done when there is more than one DS.
           Notifications false|true
               If set to true, create Sensu events for notifications. This is
               false by default. At least one of Notifications or Metrics
               should be enabled.
           Metrics false|true
               If set to true, create Sensu events for metrics. This is false
               by default. At least one of Notifications or Metrics should be
               enabled.
           Separator String
               Sets the separator for Sensu metrics name or checks. Defaults
               to "/".
           MetricHandler String
               Add a handler that will be set when metrics are sent to Sensu.
               You can add several of them, one per line. Defaults to no
               handler.
           NotificationHandler String
               Add a handler that will be set when notifications are sent to
               Sensu. You can add several of them, one per line. Defaults to
               no handler.
           EventServicePrefix String
               Add the given string as a prefix to the event service name.  If
               EventServicePrefix not set or set to an empty string (""), no
               prefix will be used.
       Tag String
           Add the given string as an additional tag to the metric being sent
           to Sensu.
       Attribute String String
           Consider the two given strings to be the key and value of an
           additional attribute for each metric being sent out to Sensu.
       IncludeSource false|true
           If set to true, then the source host of the metrics/notification is
           passed on to sensu using the source attribute. This may register
           the host as a proxy client in sensu.
           If set to false (the default), then the hostname is discarded,
           making it appear as if the event originated from the connected
           sensu agent.
   Plugin "write_stackdriver"
       The "write_stackdriver" plugin writes metrics to the Google Stackdriver
       Monitoring service.
       This plugin supports two authentication methods: When configured,
       credentials are read from the JSON credentials file specified with
       CredentialFile.  Alternatively, when running on Google Compute Engine
       (GCE), an OAuth token is retrieved from the metadata server and used to
       authenticate to GCM.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin write_stackdriver>
          CredentialFile "/path/to/service_account.json"
          <Resource "global">
            Label "project_id" "monitored_project"
          </Resource>
        </Plugin>
       CredentialFile file
           Path to a JSON credentials file holding the credentials for a GCP
           service account.
           If CredentialFile is not specified, the plugin uses Application
           Default Credentials. That means which credentials are used depends
           on the environment:
           o   The environment variable "GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS" is
               checked. If this variable is specified it should point to a
               JSON file that defines the credentials.
           o   The path
               "${HOME}/.config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json"
               is checked. This where credentials used by the gcloud command
               line utility are stored. You can use "gcloud auth
               application-default login" to create these credentials.
               Please note that these credentials are often of your personal
               account, not a service account, and are therefore unfit to be
               used in a production environment.
           o   When running on GCE, the built-in service account associated
               with the virtual machine instance is used.  See also the Email
               option below.
       Project Project
           The Project ID or the Project Number of the Stackdriver Account.
           The Project ID is a string identifying the GCP project, which you
           can chose freely when creating a new project. The Project Number is
           a 12-digit decimal number. You can look up both on the Developer
           Console.
           This setting is optional. If not set, the project ID is read from
           the credentials file or determined from the GCE's metadata service.
       Email Email (GCE only)
           Choses the GCE Service Account used for authentication.
           Each GCE instance has a "default" Service Account but may also be
           associated with additional Service Accounts. This is often used to
           restrict the permissions of services running on the GCE instance to
           the required minimum. The write_stackdriver plugin requires the
           "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring" scope. When multiple
           Service Accounts are available, this option selects which one is
           used by write_stackdriver plugin.
       Resource ResourceType
           Configures the Monitored Resource to use when storing metrics.
           More information on Monitored Resources and Monitored Resource
           Types are available at
           <https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/resources>;.
           This block takes one string argument, the ResourceType. Inside the
           block are one or more Label options which configure the resource
           labels.
           This block is optional. The default value depends on the runtime
           environment: on GCE, the "gce_instance" resource type is used,
           otherwise the "global" resource type ist used:
           o   On GCE, defaults to the equivalent of this config:
                 <Resource "gce_instance">
                   Label "project_id" "<project_id>"
                   Label "instance_id" "<instance_id>"
                   Label "zone" "<zone>"
                 </Resource>
               The values for project_id, instance_id and zone are read from
               the GCE metadata service.
           o   Elsewhere, i.e. not on GCE, defaults to the equivalent of this
               config:
                 <Resource "global">
                   Label "project_id" "<Project>"
                 </Resource>
               Where Project refers to the value of the Project option or the
               project ID inferred from the CredentialFile.
       Url Url
           URL of the Stackdriver Monitoring API. Defaults to
           "https://monitoring.googleapis.com/v3".
   Plugin "write_syslog"
       The "write_syslog" plugin writes data in syslog format log messages.
       It implements the basic syslog protocol, RFC 5424, extends it with
       content-based filtering, rich filtering capabilities, flexible
       configuration options and adds features such as using TCP for
       transport.  The plugin can connect to a Syslog daemon, like syslog-ng
       and rsyslog, that will ingest metrics, transform and ship them to the
       specified output.  The plugin uses TCP over the "line based" protocol
       with a default port 44514.  The data will be sent in blocks of at most
       1428 bytes to minimize the number of network packets.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin write_syslog>
          ResolveInterval 60
          ResolveJitter 60
          <Node "example">
            Host "syslog-1.my.domain"
            Port "44514"
            Prefix "collectd"
            MessageFormat "human"
            HostTags ""
          </Node>
        </Plugin>
       The configuration consists of one or more <Node Name> blocks and global
       directives.
       Global directives are:
       ResolveInterval seconds
       ResolveJitter seconds
           When collectd connects to a syslog node, it will request the
           hostname from DNS. This can become a problem if the syslog node is
           unavailable or badly configured because collectd will request DNS
           in order to reconnect for every metric, which can flood your DNS.
           So you can cache the last value for ResolveInterval seconds.
           Defaults to the Interval of the write_syslog plugin, e.g.
           10 seconds.
           You can also define a jitter, a random interval to wait in addition
           to ResolveInterval. This prevents all your collectd servers to
           resolve the hostname at the same time when the connection fails.
           Defaults to the Interval of the write_syslog plugin, e.g.
           10 seconds.
           Note: If the DNS resolution has already been successful when the
           socket closes, the plugin will try to reconnect immediately with
           the cached information. DNS is queried only when the socket is
           closed for a longer than ResolveInterval + ResolveJitter seconds.
       Inside the Node blocks, the following options are recognized:
       Host Address
           Hostname or address to connect to. Defaults to "localhost".
       Port Service
           Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to 44514.
       HostTags String
           When set, HostTags is added to the end of the metric.  It is
           intended to be used for adding additional metadata to tag the
           metric with.  Dots and whitespace are not escaped in this string.
           Examples:
           When MessageFormat is set to "human".
             ["prefix1" "example1"="example1_v"]["prefix2" "example2"="example2_v"]"
           When MessageFormat is set to "JSON", text should be in JSON format.
           Escaping the quotation marks is required.
             HostTags "\"prefix1\": {\"example1\":\"example1_v\",\"example2\":\"example2_v\"}"
       MessageFormat String
           MessageFormat selects the format in which messages are sent to the
           syslog deamon, human or JSON. Defaults to human.
           Syslog message format:
           <priority>VERSION ISOTIMESTAMP HOSTNAME APPLICATION PID MESSAGEID
           STRUCTURED-DATA MSG
           The difference between the message formats are in the STRUCTURED-
           DATA and MSG parts.
           Human format:
             <166>1 ISOTIMESTAMP HOSTNAME collectd PID MESSAGEID
             ["collectd" "value": "v1" "plugin"="plugin_v" "plugin_instance"="plugin_instance_v"
             "type_instance"="type_instance_v" "type"="type_v" "ds_name"="ds_name_v" "interval"="interval_v" ]
             "host_tag_example"="host_tag_example_v" plugin_v.type_v.ds_name_v="v1"
           JSON format:
             <166>1 ISOTIMESTAMP HOSTNAME collectd PID MESSAGEID STRUCTURED-DATA
             {
               "collectd": {
               "time": time_as_epoch, "interval": interval_v, "plugin": "plugin_v",
               "plugin_instance": "plugin_instance_v", "type":"type_v",
               "type_instance": "type_instance_v", "plugin_v": {"type_v": v1}
               } , "host":"host_v", "host_tag_example": "host_tag_example_v"
             }
       StoreRates false|true
           If set to true, convert counter values to rates. If set to false
           (the default) counter values are stored as is, as an increasing
           integer number.
       AlwaysAppendDS false|true
           If set to true, append the name of the Data Source (DS) to the
           "metric" identifier. If set to false (the default), this is only
           done when there is more than one DS.
       Prefix String
           When set, Prefix is added to all metrics names as a prefix. It is
           intended in case you want to be able to define the source of the
           specific metric. Dots and whitespace are not escaped in this
           string.
   Plugin "xencpu"
       This plugin collects metrics of hardware CPU load for machine running
       Xen hypervisor. Load is calculated from 'idle time' value, provided by
       Xen.  Result is reported using the "percent" type, for each CPU (core).
       This plugin doesn't have any options (yet).
   Plugin "zookeeper"
       The zookeeper plugin will collect statistics from a Zookeeper server
       using the mntr command.  It requires Zookeeper 3.4.0+ and access to the
       client port.
       Synopsis:
        <Plugin "zookeeper">
          Host "127.0.0.1"
          Port "2181"
        </Plugin>
       Host Address
           Hostname or address to connect to. Defaults to "localhost".
       Port Service
           Service name or port number to connect to. Defaults to 2181.
THRESHOLD CONFIGURATION
       Starting with version 4.3.0 collectd has support for monitoring. By
       that we mean that the values are not only stored or sent somewhere, but
       that they are judged and, if a problem is recognized, acted upon. The
       only action collectd takes itself is to generate and dispatch a
       "notification". Plugins can register to receive notifications and
       perform appropriate further actions.
       Since systems and what you expect them to do differ a lot, you can
       configure thresholds for your values freely. This gives you a lot of
       flexibility but also a lot of responsibility.
       Every time a value is out of range a notification is dispatched. This
       means that the idle percentage of your CPU needs to be less then the
       configured threshold only once for a notification to be generated.
       There's no such thing as a moving average or similar - at least not
       now.
       Also, all values that match a threshold are considered to be relevant
       or "interesting". As a consequence collectd will issue a notification
       if they are not received for Timeout iterations. The Timeout
       configuration option is explained in section "GLOBAL OPTIONS". If, for
       example, Timeout is set to "2" (the default) and some hosts sends it's
       CPU statistics to the server every 60 seconds, a notification will be
       dispatched after about 120 seconds. It may take a little longer because
       the timeout is checked only once each Interval on the server.
       When a value comes within range again or is received after it was
       missing, an "OKAY-notification" is dispatched.
       Here is a configuration example to get you started. Read below for more
       information.
        <Plugin threshold>
          <Type "foo">
            WarningMin    0.00
            WarningMax 1000.00
            FailureMin    0.00
            FailureMax 1200.00
            Invert false
            Instance "bar"
          </Type>
          <Plugin "interface">
            Instance "eth0"
            <Type "if_octets">
              FailureMax 10000000
              DataSource "rx"
            </Type>
          </Plugin>
          <Host "hostname">
            <Type "cpu">
              Instance "idle"
              FailureMin 10
            </Type>
            <Plugin "memory">
              <Type "memory">
                Instance "cached"
                WarningMin 100000000
              </Type>
            </Plugin>
          </Host>
        </Plugin>
       There are basically two types of configuration statements: The "Host",
       "Plugin", and "Type" blocks select the value for which a threshold
       should be configured. The "Plugin" and "Type" blocks may be specified
       further using the "Instance" option. You can combine the block by
       nesting the blocks, though they must be nested in the above order,
       i. e. "Host" may contain either "Plugin" and "Type" blocks, "Plugin"
       may only contain "Type" blocks and "Type" may not contain other blocks.
       If multiple blocks apply to the same value the most specific block is
       used.
       The other statements specify the threshold to configure. They must be
       included in a "Type" block. Currently the following statements are
       recognized:
       FailureMax Value
       WarningMax Value
           Sets the upper bound of acceptable values. If unset defaults to
           positive infinity. If a value is greater than FailureMax a FAILURE
           notification will be created. If the value is greater than
           WarningMax but less than (or equal to) FailureMax a WARNING
           notification will be created.
       FailureMin Value
       WarningMin Value
           Sets the lower bound of acceptable values. If unset defaults to
           negative infinity. If a value is less than FailureMin a FAILURE
           notification will be created. If the value is less than WarningMin
           but greater than (or equal to) FailureMin a WARNING notification
           will be created.
       DataSource DSName
           Some data sets have more than one "data source". Interesting
           examples are the "if_octets" data set, which has received ("rx")
           and sent ("tx") bytes and the "disk_ops" data set, which holds
           "read" and "write" operations. The system load data set, "load",
           even has three data sources: "shortterm", "midterm", and
           "longterm".
           Normally, all data sources are checked against a configured
           threshold. If this is undesirable, or if you want to specify
           different limits for each data source, you can use the DataSource
           option to have a threshold apply only to one data source.
       Invert true|false
           If set to true the range of acceptable values is inverted, i. e.
           values between FailureMin and FailureMax (WarningMin and
           WarningMax) are not okay. Defaults to false.
       Persist true|false
           Sets how often notifications are generated. If set to true one
           notification will be generated for each value that is out of the
           acceptable range. If set to false (the default) then a notification
           is only generated if a value is out of range but the previous value
           was okay.
           This applies to missing values, too: If set to true a notification
           about a missing value is generated once every Interval seconds. If
           set to false only one such notification is generated until the
           value appears again.
       Percentage true|false
           If set to true, the minimum and maximum values given are
           interpreted as percentage value, relative to the other data
           sources. This is helpful for example for the "df" type, where you
           may want to issue a warning when less than 5 % of the total space
           is available. Defaults to false.
       Hits Number
           Delay creating the notification until the threshold has been passed
           Number times. When a notification has been generated, or when a
           subsequent value is inside the threshold, the counter is reset. If,
           for example, a value is collected once every 10 seconds and Hits is
           set to 3, a notification will be dispatched at most once every
           30 seconds.
           This is useful when short bursts are not a problem. If, for
           example, 100% CPU usage for up to a minute is normal (and data is
           collected every 10 seconds), you could set Hits to 6 to account for
           this.
       Hysteresis Number
           When set to non-zero, a hysteresis value is applied when checking
           minimum and maximum bounds. This is useful for values that increase
           slowly and fluctuate a bit while doing so. When these values come
           close to the threshold, they may "flap", i.e. switch between
           failure / warning case and okay case repeatedly.
           If, for example, the threshold is configures as
             WarningMax 100.0
             Hysteresis 1.0
           then a Warning notification is created when the value exceeds 101
           and the corresponding Okay notification is only created once the
           value falls below 99, thus avoiding the "flapping".
FILTER CONFIGURATION
       Starting with collectd 4.6 there is a powerful filtering infrastructure
       implemented in the daemon. The concept has mostly been copied from
       ip_tables, the packet filter infrastructure for Linux. We'll use a
       similar terminology, so that users that are familiar with iptables feel
       right at home.
   Terminology
       The following are the terms used in the remainder of the filter
       configuration documentation. For an ASCII-art schema of the mechanism,
       see "General structure" below.
       Match
           A match is a criteria to select specific values. Examples are, of
           course, the name of the value or it's current value.
           Matches are implemented in plugins which you have to load prior to
           using the match. The name of such plugins starts with the "match_"
           prefix.
       Target
           A target is some action that is to be performed with data. Such
           actions could, for example, be to change part of the value's
           identifier or to ignore the value completely.
           Some of these targets are built into the daemon, see "Built-in
           targets" below. Other targets are implemented in plugins which you
           have to load prior to using the target. The name of such plugins
           starts with the "target_" prefix.
       Rule
           The combination of any number of matches and at least one target is
           called a rule. The target actions will be performed for all values
           for which all matches apply. If the rule does not have any matches
           associated with it, the target action will be performed for all
           values.
       Chain
           A chain is a list of rules and possibly default targets. The rules
           are tried in order and if one matches, the associated target will
           be called. If a value is handled by a rule, it depends on the
           target whether or not any subsequent rules are considered or if
           traversal of the chain is aborted, see "Flow control" below. After
           all rules have been checked, the default targets will be executed.
   General structure
       The following shows the resulting structure:
        +---------+
        ! Chain   !
        +---------+
             !
             V
        +---------+  +---------+  +---------+  +---------+
        ! Rule    !->! Match   !->! Match   !->! Target  !
        +---------+  +---------+  +---------+  +---------+
             !
             V
        +---------+  +---------+  +---------+
        ! Rule    !->! Target  !->! Target  !
        +---------+  +---------+  +---------+
             !
             V
             :
             :
             !
             V
        +---------+  +---------+  +---------+
        ! Rule    !->! Match   !->! Target  !
        +---------+  +---------+  +---------+
             !
             V
        +---------+
        ! Default !
        ! Target  !
        +---------+
   Flow control
       There are four ways to control which way a value takes through the
       filter mechanism:
       jump
           The built-in jump target can be used to "call" another chain, i. e.
           process the value with another chain. When the called chain
           finishes, usually the next target or rule after the jump is
           executed.
       stop
           The stop condition, signaled for example by the built-in target
           stop, causes all processing of the value to be stopped immediately.
       return
           Causes processing in the current chain to be aborted, but
           processing of the value generally will continue. This means that if
           the chain was called via Jump, the next target or rule after the
           jump will be executed. If the chain was not called by another
           chain, control will be returned to the daemon and it may pass the
           value to another chain.
       continue
           Most targets will signal the continue condition, meaning that
           processing should continue normally. There is no special built-in
           target for this condition.
   Synopsis
       The configuration reflects this structure directly:
        PostCacheChain "PostCache"
        <Chain "PostCache">
          <Rule "ignore_mysql_show">
            <Match "regex">
              Plugin "^mysql$"
              Type "^mysql_command$"
              TypeInstance "^show_"
            </Match>
            <Target "stop">
            </Target>
          </Rule>
          <Target "write">
            Plugin "rrdtool"
          </Target>
        </Chain>
       The above configuration example will ignore all values where the plugin
       field is "mysql", the type is "mysql_command" and the type instance
       begins with "show_". All other values will be sent to the "rrdtool"
       write plugin via the default target of the chain. Since this chain is
       run after the value has been added to the cache, the MySQL "show_*"
       command statistics will be available via the "unixsock" plugin.
   List of configuration options
       PreCacheChain ChainName
       PostCacheChain ChainName
           Configure the name of the "pre-cache chain" and the "post-cache
           chain". The argument is the name of a chain that should be executed
           before and/or after the values have been added to the cache.
           To understand the implications, it's important you know what is
           going on inside collectd. The following diagram shows how values
           are passed from the read-plugins to the write-plugins:
              +---------------+
              !  Read-Plugin  !
              +-------+-------+
                      !
            + - - - - V - - - - +
            : +---------------+ :
            : !   Pre-Cache   ! :
            : !     Chain     ! :
            : +-------+-------+ :
            :         !         :
            :         V         :
            : +-------+-------+ :  +---------------+
            : !     Cache     !--->!  Value Cache  !
            : !     insert    ! :  +---+---+-------+
            : +-------+-------+ :      !   !
            :         !   ,------------'   !
            :         V   V     :          V
            : +-------+---+---+ :  +-------+-------+
            : !  Post-Cache   +--->! Write-Plugins !
            : !     Chain     ! :  +---------------+
            : +---------------+ :
            :                   :
            :  dispatch values  :
            + - - - - - - - - - +
           After the values are passed from the "read" plugins to the dispatch
           functions, the pre-cache chain is run first. The values are added
           to the internal cache afterwards. The post-cache chain is run after
           the values have been added to the cache. So why is it such a huge
           deal if chains are run before or after the values have been added
           to this cache?
           Targets that change the identifier of a value list should be
           executed before the values are added to the cache, so that the name
           in the cache matches the name that is used in the "write" plugins.
           The "unixsock" plugin, too, uses this cache to receive a list of
           all available values. If you change the identifier after the value
           list has been added to the cache, this may easily lead to
           confusion, but it's not forbidden of course.
           The cache is also used to convert counter values to rates. These
           rates are, for example, used by the "value" match (see below). If
           you use the rate stored in the cache before the new value is added,
           you will use the old, previous rate. Write plugins may use this
           rate, too, see the "csv" plugin, for example.  The "unixsock"
           plugin uses these rates too, to implement the "GETVAL" command.
           Last but not last, the stop target makes a difference: If the pre-
           cache chain returns the stop condition, the value will not be added
           to the cache and the post-cache chain will not be run.
       Chain Name
           Adds a new chain with a certain name. This name can be used to
           refer to a specific chain, for example to jump to it.
           Within the Chain block, there can be Rule blocks and Target blocks.
       Rule [Name]
           Adds a new rule to the current chain. The name of the rule is
           optional and currently has no meaning for the daemon.
           Within the Rule block, there may be any number of Match blocks and
           there must be at least one Target block.
       Match Name
           Adds a match to a Rule block. The name specifies what kind of match
           should be performed. Available matches depend on the plugins that
           have been loaded.
           The arguments inside the Match block are passed to the plugin
           implementing the match, so which arguments are valid here depends
           on the plugin being used.  If you do not need any to pass any
           arguments to a match, you can use the shorter syntax:
            Match "foobar"
           Which is equivalent to:
            <Match "foobar">
            </Match>
       Target Name
           Add a target to a rule or a default target to a chain. The name
           specifies what kind of target is to be added. Which targets are
           available depends on the plugins being loaded.
           The arguments inside the Target block are passed to the plugin
           implementing the target, so which arguments are valid here depends
           on the plugin being used.  If you do not need any to pass any
           arguments to a target, you can use the shorter syntax:
            Target "stop"
           This is the same as writing:
            <Target "stop">
            </Target>
   Built-in targets
       The following targets are built into the core daemon and therefore need
       no plugins to be loaded:
       return
           Signals the "return" condition, see the "Flow control" section
           above. This causes the current chain to stop processing the value
           and returns control to the calling chain. The calling chain will
           continue processing targets and rules just after the jump target
           (see below). This is very similar to the RETURN target of iptables,
           see iptables(8).
           This target does not have any options.
           Example:
            Target "return"
       stop
           Signals the "stop" condition, see the "Flow control" section above.
           This causes processing of the value to be aborted immediately. This
           is similar to the DROP target of iptables, see iptables(8).
           This target does not have any options.
           Example:
            Target "stop"
       write
           Sends the value to "write" plugins.
           Available options:
           Plugin Name
               Name of the write plugin to which the data should be sent. This
               option may be given multiple times to send the data to more
               than one write plugin. If the plugin supports multiple
               instances, the plugin's instance(s) must also be specified.
           If no plugin is explicitly specified, the values will be sent to
           all available write plugins.
           Single-instance plugin example:
            <Target "write">
              Plugin "rrdtool"
            </Target>
           Multi-instance plugin example:
            <Plugin "write_graphite">
              <Node "foo">
              ...
              </Node>
              <Node "bar">
              ...
              </Node>
            </Plugin>
             ...
            <Target "write">
              Plugin "write_graphite/foo"
            </Target>
       jump
           Starts processing the rules of another chain, see "Flow control"
           above. If the end of that chain is reached, or a stop condition is
           encountered, processing will continue right after the jump target,
           i. e. with the next target or the next rule. This is similar to the
           -j command line option of iptables, see iptables(8).
           Available options:
           Chain Name
               Jumps to the chain Name. This argument is required and may
               appear only once.
           Example:
            <Target "jump">
              Chain "foobar"
            </Target>
   Available matches
       regex
           Matches a value using regular expressions.
           Available options:
           Host Regex
           Plugin Regex
           PluginInstance Regex
           Type Regex
           TypeInstance Regex
           MetaData String Regex
               Match values where the given regular expressions match the
               various fields of the identifier of a value. If multiple
               regular expressions are given, all regexen must match for a
               value to match.
           Invert false|true
               When set to true, the result of the match is inverted, i.e. all
               value lists where all regular expressions apply are not
               matched, all other value lists are matched. Defaults to false.
           Example:
            <Match "regex">
              Host "customer[0-9]+"
              Plugin "^foobar$"
            </Match>
       timediff
           Matches values that have a time which differs from the time on the
           server.
           This match is mainly intended for servers that receive values over
           the "network" plugin and write them to disk using the "rrdtool"
           plugin. RRDtool is very sensitive to the timestamp used when
           updating the RRD files. In particular, the time must be ever
           increasing. If a misbehaving client sends one packet with a
           timestamp far in the future, all further packets with a correct
           time will be ignored because of that one packet. What's worse, such
           corrupted RRD files are hard to fix.
           This match lets one match all values outside a specified time range
           (relative to the server's time), so you can use the stop target
           (see below) to ignore the value, for example.
           Available options:
           Future Seconds
               Matches all values that are ahead of the server's time by
               Seconds or more seconds. Set to zero for no limit. Either
               Future or Past must be non-zero.
           Past Seconds
               Matches all values that are behind of the server's time by
               Seconds or more seconds. Set to zero for no limit. Either
               Future or Past must be non-zero.
           Example:
            <Match "timediff">
              Future  300
              Past   3600
            </Match>
           This example matches all values that are five minutes or more ahead
           of the server or one hour (or more) lagging behind.
       value
           Matches the actual value of data sources against given minimum /
           maximum values. If a data-set consists of more than one data-
           source, all data-sources must match the specified ranges for a
           positive match.
           Available options:
           Min Value
               Sets the smallest value which still results in a match. If
               unset, behaves like negative infinity.
           Max Value
               Sets the largest value which still results in a match. If
               unset, behaves like positive infinity.
           Invert true|false
               Inverts the selection. If the Min and Max settings result in a
               match, no-match is returned and vice versa. Please note that
               the Invert setting only effects how Min and Max are applied to
               a specific value. Especially the DataSource and Satisfy
               settings (see below) are not inverted.
           DataSource DSName [DSName ...]
               Select one or more of the data sources. If no data source is
               configured, all data sources will be checked. If the type
               handled by the match does not have a data source of the
               specified name(s), this will always result in no match
               (independent of the Invert setting).
           Satisfy Any|All
               Specifies how checking with several data sources is performed.
               If set to Any, the match succeeds if one of the data sources is
               in the configured range. If set to All the match only succeeds
               if all data sources are within the configured range. Default is
               All.
               Usually All is used for positive matches, Any is used for
               negative matches. This means that with All you usually check
               that all values are in a "good" range, while with Any you check
               if any value is within a "bad" range (or outside the "good"
               range).
           Either Min or Max, but not both, may be unset.
           Example:
            # Match all values smaller than or equal to 100. Matches only if all data
            # sources are below 100.
            <Match "value">
              Max 100
              Satisfy "All"
            </Match>
            # Match if the value of any data source is outside the range of 0 - 100.
            <Match "value">
              Min   0
              Max 100
              Invert true
              Satisfy "Any"
            </Match>
       empty_counter
           Matches all values with one or more data sources of type COUNTER
           and where all counter values are zero. These counters usually never
           increased since they started existing (and are therefore
           uninteresting), or got reset recently or overflowed and you had
           really, really bad luck.
           Please keep in mind that ignoring such counters can result in
           confusing behavior: Counters which hardly ever increase will be
           zero for long periods of time. If the counter is reset for some
           reason (machine or service restarted, usually), the graph will be
           empty (NAN) for a long time. People may not understand why.
       hashed
           Calculates a hash value of the host name and matches values
           according to that hash value. This makes it possible to divide all
           hosts into groups and match only values that are in a specific
           group. The intended use is in load balancing, where you want to
           handle only part of all data and leave the rest for other servers.
           The hashing function used tries to distribute the hosts evenly.
           First, it calculates a 32 bit hash value using the characters of
           the hostname:
             hash_value = 0;
             for (i = 0; host[i] != 0; i++)
               hash_value = (hash_value * 251) + host[i];
           The constant 251 is a prime number which is supposed to make this
           hash value more random. The code then checks the group for this
           host according to the Total and Match arguments:
             if ((hash_value % Total) == Match)
               matches;
             else
               does not match;
           Please note that when you set Total to two (i. e. you have only two
           groups), then the least significant bit of the hash value will be
           the XOR of all least significant bits in the host name. One
           consequence is that when you have two hosts, "server0.example.com"
           and "server1.example.com", where the host name differs in one digit
           only and the digits differ by one, those hosts will never end up in
           the same group.
           Available options:
           Match Match Total
               Divide the data into Total groups and match all hosts in group
               Match as described above. The groups are numbered from zero,
               i. e. Match must be smaller than Total. Total must be at least
               one, although only values greater than one really do make any
               sense.
               You can repeat this option to match multiple groups, for
               example:
                 Match 3 7
                 Match 5 7
               The above config will divide the data into seven groups and
               match groups three and five. One use would be to keep every
               value on two hosts so that if one fails the missing data can
               later be reconstructed from the second host.
           Example:
            # Operate on the pre-cache chain, so that ignored values are not even in the
            # global cache.
            <Chain "PreCache">
              <Rule>
                <Match "hashed">
                  # Divide all received hosts in seven groups and accept all hosts in
                  # group three.
                  Match 3 7
                </Match>
                # If matched: Return and continue.
                Target "return"
              </Rule>
              # If not matched: Return and stop.
              Target "stop"
            </Chain>
   Available targets
       notification
           Creates and dispatches a notification.
           Available options:
           Message String
               This required option sets the message of the notification. The
               following placeholders will be replaced by an appropriate
               value:
               %{host}
               %{plugin}
               %{plugin_instance}
               %{type}
               %{type_instance}
                   These placeholders are replaced by the identifier field of
                   the same name.
               %{ds:name}
                   These placeholders are replaced by a (hopefully) human
                   readable representation of the current rate of this data
                   source. If you changed the instance name (using the set or
                   replace targets, see below), it may not be possible to
                   convert counter values to rates.
               Please note that these placeholders are case sensitive!
           Severity "FAILURE"|"WARNING"|"OKAY"
               Sets the severity of the message. If omitted, the severity
               "WARNING" is used.
           Example:
             <Target "notification">
               Message "Oops, the %{type_instance} temperature is currently %{ds:value}!"
               Severity "WARNING"
             </Target>
       replace
           Replaces parts of the identifier using regular expressions.
           Available options:
           Host Regex Replacement
           Plugin Regex Replacement
           PluginInstance Regex Replacement
           TypeInstance Regex Replacement
           MetaData String Regex Replacement
           DeleteMetaData String Regex
               Match the appropriate field with the given regular expression
               Regex. If the regular expression matches, that part that
               matches is replaced with Replacement. If multiple places of the
               input buffer match a given regular expression, only the first
               occurrence will be replaced.
               You can specify each option multiple times to use multiple
               regular expressions one after another.
           Example:
            <Target "replace">
              # Replace "example.net" with "example.com"
              Host "\\<example.net\\>" "example.com"
              # Strip "www." from hostnames
              Host "\\<www\\." ""
            </Target>
       set Sets part of the identifier of a value to a given string.
           Available options:
           Host String
           Plugin String
           PluginInstance String
           TypeInstance String
           MetaData String String
               Set the appropriate field to the given string. The strings for
               plugin instance, type instance, and meta data may be empty, the
               strings for host and plugin may not be empty. It's currently
               not possible to set the type of a value this way.
               The following placeholders will be replaced by an appropriate
               value:
               %{host}
               %{plugin}
               %{plugin_instance}
               %{type}
               %{type_instance}
                   These placeholders are replaced by the identifier field of
                   the same name.
               %{meta:name}
                   These placeholders are replaced by the meta data value with
                   the given name.
               Please note that these placeholders are case sensitive!
           DeleteMetaData String
               Delete the named meta data field.
           Example:
            <Target "set">
              PluginInstance "coretemp"
              TypeInstance "core3"
            </Target>
   Backwards compatibility
       If you use collectd with an old configuration, i. e. one without a
       Chain block, it will behave as it used to. This is equivalent to the
       following configuration:
        <Chain "PostCache">
          Target "write"
        </Chain>
       If you specify a PostCacheChain, the write target will not be added
       anywhere and you will have to make sure that it is called where
       appropriate. We suggest to add the above snippet as default target to
       your "PostCache" chain.
   Examples
       Ignore all values, where the hostname does not contain a dot, i. e.
       can't be an FQDN.
        <Chain "PreCache">
          <Rule "no_fqdn">
            <Match "regex">
              Host "^[^\.]*$"
            </Match>
            Target "stop"
          </Rule>
          Target "write"
        </Chain>
IGNORELISTS
       Ignorelists are a generic framework to either ignore some metrics or
       report specific metrics only. Plugins usually provide one or more
       options to specify the items (mounts points, devices, ...) and the
       boolean option "IgnoreSelected".
       Select String
           Selects the item String. This option often has a plugin specific
           name, e.g.  Sensor in the "sensors" plugin. It is also plugin
           specific what this string is compared to. For example, the "df"
           plugin's MountPoint compares it to a mount point and the "sensors"
           plugin's Sensor compares it to a sensor name.
           By default, this option is doing a case-sensitive full-string
           match. The following config will match "foo", but not "Foo":
             Select "foo"
           If String starts and ends with "/" (a slash), the string is
           compiled as a regular expression. For example, so match all item
           starting with "foo", use could use the following syntax:
             Select "/^foo/"
           The regular expression is not anchored, i.e. the following config
           will match "foobar", "barfoo" and "AfooZ":
             Select "/foo/"
           The Select option may be repeated to select multiple items.
       IgnoreSelected true|false
           If set to true, matching metrics are ignored and all other metrics
           are collected. If set to false, matching metrics are collected and
           all other metrics are ignored.
SEE ALSO
       collectd(1), collectd-exec(5), collectd-perl(5), collectd-unixsock(5),
       types.db(5), hddtemp(8), iptables(8), kstat(3KSTAT), mbmon(1), psql(1),
       regex(7), rrdtool(1), sensors(1)
AUTHOR
       Florian Forster <octo AT collectd.org>

5.12.0                            2020-09-03                  COLLECTD.CONF(5)