[collectd] Bundling plugins (e.g. Plugin:Redis)

[Marc Fournier]

Excerpts from Otis Gospodnetic's message of 2013-11-01 21:11:38 +0100:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to trace https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Redis .
>  This plugin doesn't appear to be included in any Collectd package out
> there.  But some others, like mysql or ngingx, seem to be included.
> 
> In case of https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Redis - I
> actually don't even see where to go to get this plugin, if it's
> available somewhere else, where one would grab it and compile it on
> their own.

Yes, the redis plugin is notoriously annoying to build, as no distro (that
I'm aware of) ships the required credis library. So it's usually disabled
by default in packages available out there.

If you're going down the path of building collectd yourself, you might want
to try merging this patch in: https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/464

It changes the library supporting the redis plugin to the more popular
hiredis, which is usually available with yum/apt-get/whatever install.

Cheers,
Marc