[collectd] LoadPlugin redis is not present in /etc/collectd.conf file

[Collectd user]

> On 17. sep. 2016, at 14.04, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
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> On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Andrés J. Díaz <ajdiaz at connectical.com <mailto:ajdiaz at connectical.com>> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:25:24 +0530
> Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com <mailto:kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> 
> Hi Kaushal
> 
> >
> > I have installed rpm binary collectd-4.10.9-3.el6.x86_64 on CentOS release
> > 6.7 (Final). I am referring to the wiki page
> > https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Redis <https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Redis> to configure redis service
> > but i do not see *LoadPlugin redis* in /etc/collectd.conf file.
> >
> > Please suggest.
Maybe overkill, but you might send collectd output via network plugin to a locally run logstash and let this send data to redis MQ, believe I did this a one point on CentOS 6 wo/any redis specific libraries...
 
> 
> You are using a old version of collectd. In ancient times collectd had a
> redis plugin which use old library called credis. This library was fine, but
> unmaintaned, and was not included in many distributions (like CentOS), so
> plugin redis was neither available in those distros.
> 
> Since collectd5 (I cannot remember the exactly minor version right now) the
> redis plugin was modified to use hiredis library insted of credis. Hireids
> is more common, and it's present in many distributions, so plugin should be
> easy to compile again. I do not known the particulary case in CentOS, but I
> suppose that hiredis would be available and then redis plugin should be
> present too in collectd5 packages.
> 
> Try upgrading to collectd5 if possible or, if not, download credis and try to
> compile the redis.so plugin by hand. Both cases should work for you.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>   Andrés
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks Andres for the explanation and much appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kaushal
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