Collectd
Collectd
Stealth ModeCollectd is an open-source system performance monitoring tool that collects and aggregates system metrics.
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detected 2026-07-08“I used this setup for a huge amount of years on several sites and customers, because it has so many advantages: 1. easy to setup (plain and simple yum or apt standard commands to install everything, a custom configuration file to deploy via…”
View on Reddit“Now I ran into the problem that a special package (collectd) is missing in the testing distribution. Is there hope that this will change appear at some point in the future or I have to improvise.”
View on Reddit“I'm using collectd exec plugin on an OPNSense firewall to pull in temperature data. Since it's a FreeBSD machine the smart plugin is not available. I'm able to pull cpu and acpi temps using sysctl. But when I use smartctl to find my sdd's t…”
View on Reddit“For a very long time I've been using collectd ( luci-app-statistics ) on LUCI with my WRT3200ACM where all of a sudden it stops working. I am not sure when exactly it happened but I'd say a little less than a year ago. I've tried a few thin…”
View on Reddit“I got adblock working along with unbound, plus collectd, luci-app-statistics, and rrdtool. I am so impressed with this router OS..”
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What does Collectd do?
Collectd is a daemon that collects system performance metrics and exposes them in a variety of frontends. It is designed to be a robust and flexible tool for system administrators and developers to monitor the performance of their systems. Collectd can collect metrics from various sources, including CPU usage, memory usage, network traffic, disk I/O, and more. The collected data can then be written to various backends, such as RRDtool, Graphite, Elasticsearch, and CSV files, allowing for detaile…
What industry does Collectd operate in?
Collectd operates in MLOps, Observability, Developer Tools, API Platform, Data Platform, Analytics Platform.