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Collectd

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About Collectd

Collectd offers a daemon that collects system and application performance metrics periodically. It gathers metrics from sources such as the operating system, applications, logfiles and external devices. It is written in C for performance and portability, allowing it to run on systems without a scripting language or cron daemon.

Used for

  • Monitoring systems
  • Finding performance bottlenecks
  • Predicting future system load
  • Checking simple thresholds for monitoring

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collectd.org
CategoryObservability & Monitoring
SubcategoryInfrastructure Monitoring

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