collectd-formula

A salt formula that installs and configures collectd. The system statistics collection daemon.

Note

See the full Salt Formulas installation and usage instructions.

Available states

• collectd
• collectd.service
• collectd.apache
• collectd.dbi
• collectd.df
• collectd.disk
• collectd.elasticsearch
• collectd.ethstat
• collectd.interface
• collectd.java
• collectd.modules
• collectd.mysql
• collectd.network
• collectd.ntpd
• collectd.packages
• collectd.postgresql
• collectd.powerdns
• collectd.syslog
• collectd.tail
• collectd.curl_json
• collectd.python
• collectd.librato

collectd

Installs the collectd package, and starts the associated collectd service.

collectd.service

Metastate used to include service into respective plugin states, included in collectd state.

collectd.apache

Enables and configures the [apache](https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Apache) plugin. All common parameters are supported, so pass something like

apache:
  instances:
    - name: 'human-readable-name'
      url: 'http://localhost/server-status?auto'
      user: 'user'
      pass: 'your-password'

Only name and url are required.

collectd.dbi

Enables and configures the dbi plugin. It's used for quering databases with libdbi. Refer to collectd.conf(5) manpage for details and pillar.example to see how values should be populated.

Beware this plugin may need additional packages installed on your system to run properly.

collectd.df

Enables and configures the df plugin.

collectd.disk

Enables and configures the disk plugin.

collectd.elasticsearch

Enables and configures the elasticsearch plugin

collectd.ethstat

Enables and configures the ethstat plugin (please note there is a possible bug in the debian package).

collectd.interface

Enables and configures the interface plugin.

collectd.java

Enables and configures the java plugin.

Requires the installation of JDK.

Pillar values used under collectd.plugins.java, an example

collectd:
  plugins:
    java:
      host: localhost
      port: 39999
      user: 'someuser' (optional)
      group: 'someuser' (optional)
      lib: '/some/file' (optional)

collectd.modules

This state helps distributing collectd external modules written in various languages (see [python](https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Python) or [perl](https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Perl) for example).

Sample usage:

• Include collectd.modules in your topfile.
• Create collectd/modules/files folder in your states.
• Put modules you need in that folder.
• Modules will be put in collectd.moduledirconfig folder.

collectd.mysql

Enables and configures the mysql plugin. Needs refinement.

collectd.network

Enables and configures the network plugin.

collectd.ntpd

Enables and configures the ntpd plugin.

collectd.packages

This state is used to install OS packages collectd plugins depend on.

collectd.postgresql

Enables and configures the postgresql plugin. Needs refinement.

collectd.powerdns

Enables and configures the powerdns plugin.

collectd.syslog

Enables and configures the syslog plugin.

collectd.tail

Enables and configures the tail plugin.

collectd.curl_json

Enables and configures the curl_json plugin.

collectd.python

Enables and configures the python plugin, which allows executiong arbitrary python scripts.

collectd.librato

Enables and configures write_http plugin for reporting to Librato

Usage

Custom state file

Create a custom state file (for example collectd-custom.sls) that includes the plugins you want and the base state.

include:
  - collectd
  - collectd.disk
  - collectd.syslog

Then in your topfile:

'servername':
  - collectd-custom

Directly in topfile

Or if you don't mind having long lists in your topfile, just add whatever plugins you want and the base state.

'servername':
  - collectd
  - collectd.disk
  - collectd.syslog

Combined

Or you can combine both - default plugins in custom state and specific in topfile.

'apache-server':
  - collectd-custom
  - collectd.apache