[collectd] collectd

[Giovanni Torres]

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> To: giovtorres at hotmail.com 
> CC: collectd at verplant.org 
> From: smcracraft at me.com 
> Subject: Re: [collectd] collectd 
> Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 01:37:33 +0000 
>  
> Hi Giovanni, 
>  
> We use swapfiles. 
>  
> We are running on Ubuntu. 
>  
> I don't know how to turn on the collectd.log nor how to adjust loglevel  
> to DEBUG. 
>  
> Can you advise? 
>  
> Very strangely, 3 of the 18 systems do report the information. 
>  
> All 18 have collectd running and /etc/collectd/plugins/swap.conf present. 
>  
> Only these items are being reported for the 15: 
>  
>    swap_io-in 
>    swap_io-out 
>  
> but not 
>  
>    swap-free 
>    swap-used 
>    swap-cached 
>  
> like the three which report all five of the above swap plugin metrics. 
>  
> I am mystified. Please let me know how I can turn on debugging. 

If you want to log to file, you could do something like this:

LoadPlugin logfile
<Plugin logfile>
    LogLevel debug
    File "/var/log/collectd.log"
    Timestamp true
    PrintSeverity false
</Plugin>

It is recommended that this plugin is loaded before all others (https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:LogFile).

You will want to change LogLevel to 'info' when you are done testing or remove it completely from collectd.conf, as it will produce quite a bit of data.

-Giovanni