Collectd plugin development status
| Plugin | Status | Plugin description | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugepages | upstreamed | Plugin provides the free and used hugepage numbers/bytes/percentage | Useful for intelligent workload placement for VMs backed by hugepages |
| Cache | upstreamed | Plugin provides the last level cache utilitzation and memory bw utilization | Based on Resource Directory Technology |
| DPDK stats | upstreamed - undergoing update for DPDK 16.07 | Plugin provides the extended NIC stats for DPDK interfaces | |
| DPDK events | Implemented and tested (To be upstreamed) | Plugin provides the packet processing core status and the link status for DPDK interfaces | |
| RAS Memory | Implemented, undergoing testind | Plugin uses mcelog to check for memory Machine Check Exceptions and sends the stats for reported exceptions. | |
| BIOS | pushed upstream for review - looks like it will be rejected | ||
| Open vSwitch Stats | Implemented and tested - needs to be upstreamed | Plugin provides the OVS stats for interfaces. Plugin is DPDK agnostic and uses the OVS DB. | |
| Open vSwitch Events | pushed upstream for review | Plugin provides the OVS link status for interfaces. Plugin will also report vswitch liveliness. | |
| SNMP write | Under implementation | Plugin will act as a SNMP subagent and will map collectd metrics to relavent OIDs. Will only support SNMP: get, getnext and walk. | |
| Legacy/IPMI | Planning | Plugin will report platform thermals, voltages, fanspeed.... | |
| RAS other errors | Planning | Plugin will parse the mcelog/syslog for exceptions that are not memory exceptions. | |
| Libvirt extensions | Planning |