Related sites

The following is a loosely collected list of articles about collectd, projects using collectd, similar projects and other stuff that might be interesting for our users and interested parties. If you have written or found something that should be listed here, or if we made an error, e. g. in the description of a link, please tell us. All links are sorted alphabetically or not at all. In any case the order does not reflect any kind of significance.

Utility programs and projects

• kcollectd
  A X frontend to the RRD files created by collectd. It uses KDE/Qt, hence the name.
• CollectGraph
  Macro for the MoinMoin wiki that displays graphs using RRD files created and filled by collectd.

Articles / Blog entries

• Terry Gliedt uses collectd to monitor a cluster at University of Michigan.
• Jeff Waugh is happy about collectd on Ubuntu 8.04.
• The german Linux-Magazin has written a short report about our stay at the SYSTEMS 2008 (in german).
• Ben Martin has written an article about projects for collecting system statistics published on linux.com. Among other projects it mentions collectd.

Projects using collectd

• oVirt is a management console for virtual guest systems, including statistics. It's developed by RedHat's Emerging Technologies group.
• Puppet, a configuration management solution, can manage collectd's configuration files, thanks to funding by neoTactics.
• LuCI, a web-based configuration frontend for embedded devices, can display statistics collected by collectd. There is a screenshot of the statistics in OpenWrt, which uses LuCI as its web-frontend.

Other users of collectd

• RightScale Inc. use collectd on Amazon EC2 nodes.
• The BBC is collecting statistics from more than 200 servers.
• noris network AG collects performance data from own and hosted servers as well as a wide variety of network equipment using the SNMP plugin.
• neoTactics use collectd in their cloud management framework CloudScale. They have sponsored the development of a module which allows configuring collectd with Puppet, a configuration management solution. See the announcements in neoTactics' blog and on the puppet-users mailing list. Thanks :)

Similar projects

The following is a list of projects similar to collectd and a short note on how they differ. Projects that focus on monitoring and do some performance measurement on the side are not on this list. It's easy to find extensive lists of such (monitoring) tools on the web, though.

• Munin
  Data is collected by forking / executing plugins (i. e. scripts).
• Ganglia
  Basic statistics compiled in, extendible by executing custom scripts. Advanced networking capabilities.
• eLuna Graph System
  Written in Perl; relies on cron; local system only.
• Monitorix
  Written in Perl; network support using HTTP (web server and CGI on client).
• openSSI webView
  Specialized solution for openSSI clusters; written in Perl.
• RRDutil
  Written in Perl, relies on cron and SNMP.
• collectl
  Written in Perl; monolithic structure; designed for realtime viewing in the console.