collectd as alternative to RTG for high-resolution polling and long term storage?
John Kinsella
jlk at thrashyour.com
Wed Mar 16 19:48:30 UTC 2016
Collectd supports a large number “write” plugins[1] that can write out to various sources. I had been eyeing Grafana and OpenTSDB, they’re probably worth a look
John
1: https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Table_of_Plugins
> On Mar 16, 2016, at 12:35 PM, Louis Kowolowski <louisk at cryptomonkeys.org> wrote:
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> On Mar 16, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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/
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> Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that collectd uses RRD files for the backend, which you said you don’t want.
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> You might check out Grafana (http://grafana.org/ <http://grafana.org/>). Its based off graphite and uses something like opentsdb or influxdb for the backend. I think this is probably more what you’re looking for.
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