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

Thu Mar 17 20:09:35 UTC 2016

     Prometheus is also worth taking a look at.
     http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison/

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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Peter Phaal <peter.phaal at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>