collectd+LLNW customizations

This repo is a sync fork from collectd upstream (see master info); LLNW custom improvements and additions to the existing product are tracked in branches and shall integrate with upstream.

protip to get all tag info from upstream to your local repo.

 git fetch upstream refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

Upstream major version cherry-pick onto new branch

 git rebase --onto LLNW-API-2.2 a495dde~1 upstream/F-LLNW

(Note: helpful comparison: https://github.com/llnw/collectd/compare/collectd-5.4...LLNW-collectd-5.4)

Repo structure

• Branches

  • F-* are feature and/or bug fix branches we maintain on top of upstream -STABLE
  • LLNW-collectd-5.4 is the current 5.4-STABLE branch with our patches applied

• Tags

  • refs from upstream repo (compare/collectd-5.4.0...collectd-5.4.1)
  • LLNW specific tags are <release>-llnw<increment from 1> (e.g. collectd-5.4.1+llnw1)

master

This is a mirror of upstream master, https://github.com/collectd/collectd latest (updated by Jenkins)

collectd-5.4

This is a mirror of upstream -STABLE for 5.4, and is also automatically syncd. We develop patches against this pristine branch.

LLNW

This is the default branch, with a README.md to explain the repository structure.

LLNW-collectd-5.4

This is the current -STABLE branch. Patches should be developed against vanilla collectd-5.4 branch and then merged here.

F-METRICS-379-libperl-5.4

• From: collectd#390
• Issue: llnw#1

The perl embed config is supplying incorrect flags to the linker. This patch is nearly correct and is needed for a successful build on Linux.

F-METRICS-383-tsdb-writer-5.4

• From: collectd#247
• Issue: llnw#2

Adds an OpenTSDB writer. No additional dependencies.

F-METRICS-384-gstat-5.4

• From: collectd#341
• Issue: llnw#3

Adds a gstat plugin for FreeBSD.

F-METRICS-380-exec-as-root-5.4

• From: https://github.com/bpiraeus/collectd/commit/0ed4d1724b0d2cd94966e36e0417b14158462edf
• Issue: llnw#4

Allow exec plugin to maintain root privileges.

F-METRICS-385-netstat-5.4

• From: collectd#247
• Issue: llnw#5

Adds a netstat plugin for FreeBSD and Linux.

Warning, breaks build unless configured with --enable-ipv6