[collectd] Linux Proces Monitoring With Collectd & Graphite

[amit shah]

The processes plugin gets RSS and that should be be the amount of memory
used by the process (second question)?


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:02 PM, amit shah <amits.84 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Few follow up questions.
> 1. So to collect statistics for different processes I would have to
> include multiple <Plugin processes> in the conf file?
>
> 2. The processes plugin captures cpu usage along with other statistics.
> How do I gather memory statistics for specific processes?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Florian Forster <octo at collectd.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi Amit,
>>
>> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 01:07:53PM +0530, amit shah wrote:
>> > Can collectd be configured to gather statistics for specific linux
>> > processes given their pid's?
>>
>> no, the "processes" plugin can only select processes by name. On some
>> systems, including Linux, the "ProcessMatch" option matches the entire
>> command line.
>>
>> I also just mergd the "cgroups" plugin into the master branch. With it
>> you can get CPU usage statistics from certain processes only.
>>
>> HTH,
>> —octo
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