<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">> When thinking about the detailed side-effects, I came across the<br><div><div>> following: currently, collectd allows to specify multiple <Plugin><br>> blocks for a single plugin. This is not documented anywhere and should<br>> not be considered to be officially supported. The current behavior<br>> greatly depends on the plugin. However, quite a few plugins probably<br>> handle this situation sanely and, thus, this might be used in a couple<br>> of reasonable use-cases.<br><br>I thought I read somewhere that was officially supported but the only thing I<br>could find was "The complex configuration callbacks are called once for each<br><Plugin /> block parsed for that plugin":<br> https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin_architecture#Complex_configuration_callbacks<br><br>Multiple
<Plugin> blocks are really handy with a configuration management<br>system. For example, with the tcpconns plugin I have a set of local and remote<br>ports to capture in the main conf on every host and then for each app/role I<br>may add more ports. E.g., a MySQL server will have another block to capture<br>3306.<br><br>Thanks<br>Kimo<br></div> </div> </div></body></html>