collectd as alternative to RTG for high-resolution polling and long term storage?

Thu Mar 17 00:52:46 UTC 2016

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would anyone care to share their experience using collectd as an
> alternative to rtg for high-resolution polling of interface traffic and
> long term storage?
>
> I am investigating the various options for large data set size, lossless
> long term traffic charting (not RRAs which lose precision over time). One
> possible use is precision 95th billing.
>
> https://collectd.org/

Devices that support sFlow natively implement collectd type
functionality for streaming interface counters to a time series
database (InfluxDB, Graphite, OpenTSB, etc.) Tools like Grafana can be
used to query the database and build dashboards.

Host sFlow (http://sflow.net) is very similar to collectd in the
metrics it exports, but with the added ability to export flow data
from host adapters, bridges, vSwitches, firewalls, routing, VMs,
containers etc.