Collectd

Installing and configuring collectd

1.
Install collectd on your system. It’s usually available via your normal package manager, e.g. apt-get install collectd
2.
From the Hosted Graphite Add-ons page, select collectd and download the appropriate configuration file. Version 5.4 works with most versions of collectd
3.
Copy the downloaded configuration file to /etc/collect/collectd.conf. If you want to keep the original configuration file, rename it to collectd.conf.old
4.
Configure optional plugins to collect data from many different technologies and running processes on your servers. See their table of plugins here.
5.
Restart collectd so that it uses the new configuration file: sudo service collectd restart

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Generating and viewing the collectd dashboard

Once collectd is up and running, you can automatically generate a dashboard from our dashboard library. Go to the Add-ons page and scroll down to the Dashboards section.