[collectd] Configure reporting interval on network plugin

Giovanni Torres giovanni.torres at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 17:25:00 CET 2016


You could raise an issue on Github for this. I started graphing internal
metrics, such as the size of the global cache after I switched from 5.4 to
5.5, so I can't offer a comparison.  Perhaps one of the core developers
could explain what you are seeing.

Giovanni

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 11:47 PM Joel Serrano <joel at gogii.net> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> Going back to this, I have tried more combinations with no luck.
>
> Has anyone successfully configured the network plugin in collectd to send
> metrics every X seconds? (like 10 seconds).
>
> I can't manage to figure out how to do it.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
> Joel.
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Joel Serrano <joel at gogii.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> We are using collectd to monitor servers and send the metrics via network
>> protocol to a remote InfluxDB database.
>>
>> In version 5.4, it would report the metrics right away, in version 5.5,
>> apparently collectd gathers the metrics and sends them all together after X
>> interval (2-3 minutes).
>>
>> Is there a setting so that metrics are reported for example every 10
>> seconds? (we need real-time statistics)
>>
>> I have been trying several ways with the Interval setting as follows:
>>
>> Try 1:
>>
>> Interval 10
>> LoadPlugin network
>> <Plugin network>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> Try 2:
>>
>> <LoadPlugin network>
>>      Interval 10
>> </LoadPlugin>
>> <Plugin network>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> Try 3:
>>
>> LoadPlugin network
>> <Plugin network>
>>     <Server "XXX">
>>         Interval 10
>>     </Server>
>> </Plugin>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> But non of them make any change. The metrics are being gathered every 10
>> seconds, so we don't lose data, the problem is it is reported every 2-4
>> minutes...
>>
>>
>> Also, I found this post from 2014 with no answer:
>> http://mailman.verplant.org/pipermail/collectd/2014-June/006202.html
>>
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Joel.
>>
>
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