Collectd module for Puppet

The collectd module has new home under the puppet-community namespace:

• https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppet/collectd
• https://github.com/puppet-community/puppet-collectd

Please update your Puppetfiles and other automations to use puppet-collectd

2015-08-12 Release 4.0.1

The collectd module has new home under the puppet-community namespace:

• https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppet/collectd
• https://github.com/puppet-community/puppet-collectd

Please update your Puppetfiles and other automations to use puppet-collectd

2015-07-26 Release 4.0.0

Backwards-incompatible changes:

• Exec plugin was renamed from collectd::plugin::exec to collectd::plugin::exec::cmd to support multiple execs
• Write_graphite was renamed from collectd::plugin::write_graphite to collectd::plugin::write_graphite::carbon to supports multiple carbon backends

New features

• Support for the aggregation, chain, and protocols plugins
• Swap and Memory plugins now support ValuesAbsolute and ValuesPercentage
• OpenVPN plugin now supports multiple statusfiles

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug preventing multiple instances of curl_json
• Fixed write_http plugin on RedHat

2015-06-16 Release 3.4.0

Backwards-incompatible changes:

• Implement support for mupltiple Python modules

Bug fixes

• snmp/host.pp validate_re validate on string
• quote reserved word type in tail.pp

New features

• add new cpu plugin options introduced in collectd 5.5
• Added absent timers for statsd module.

Testing enhancements

• Add ruby 2.2.0 to TravisCI
• Add puppet4 to .travis and update ruby to 2.1.6
• Add metadata-json-lint gem

2015-04-22 Release 3.3.0

Backwards-incompatible changes:

• Drop Ruby 1.8.7 support
• Package collectd-python is no longer available in EPEL

Features:

• Allow disable forwarding in network::server

Bugs/Maint:

• Fix permission on MySQL plugin file
• Only set LogSendErrors option if collectd version >= 5.4.
• CreateFiles/CreateFilesAsync expect boolean values

2015-01-24 Release 3.2.0

Backwards-incompatible changes:

There are no known backwards compat changes, please add them to the CHANGELOG if you find one.

Summary:

The release adds support for 4 new plugins and adds redhat package support to a large number of plugins.

New Plugins:

• collectd::plugin::genericjmx
• collectd::plugin::java
• collectd::plugin::target_v5upgrade
• collectd::plugin::lvm

Features:

• plugin/rrdcached: Add CollectStatistics option
• plugin/ntpd: Add IncludeUnitID option

Bugs/Maint:

• Update metadata for more PE versions
• plugin/perl: changed exec in provider 'false' case
• plugin/varnish: package resouce ensure param passed
• plugin/postgresql: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/write_riemann: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/write_http: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/snmp: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/sensors: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/python: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/ping: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/perl: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/nginx: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/mysql: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/iptables: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/curl_json: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/curl: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/amqp: add package for redhat systems
• plugin/bind: add package for redhat systems

2014-12-26 Release 3.1.0

Backwards-incompatible changes:

There are no known backwards compat changes, please add them to the CHANGELOG if you find one.

Summary:

This release introduces support for 3 new plugins, new parameters for existing plugins, bugfixes, doc improvments and basic acceptance tests with beaker.

New Plugins:

• Add conntrack module
• Add cpufreq plugin
• Add collectd::plugin::zfs_arc

Features:

• filecount: support all options
• plugin::python introduce ensure parameter
• Make plugins passing the $interval parameter
• Support LogSendErrors on the write_graphite plugin
• curl: fix handling of some parameters
• curl_json: Support reading from a unix socket
• Adding support for WriteQueueLimitLow & WriteQueueLimitHigh, which were added in collectd 5.4

Bugs/Maint:

• Lintian fixes
• Ensure variable using 'false' will be interpreted.
• Cleaning the now redundant LoadPlugin declaration
• Uses the LoadPlugin syntax with bracket when supported
• Fix Puppet deprecation warning
• Add "" to Hostname
• Double quote the csv plugin DataDir.
• write_http: StoreRates is a bool, not a string
• curl : 'MeasureResponseTime' needs exactly one boolean argument
• Add collectd-apache package needed on RedHat
• Variables in templates should use @-notation

Tests:

• Basic acceptance test with beaker
• Add rspec test to ensure the bracket syntax is using when available
• Fix travis by using plabs gemfile

Docs:

• Add conntrack to README.md
• Add cpufreq plugin doc
• README.md: Fixed example entropy snippet.

2014-10-04 Release 3.0.1

Backwards-incompatible changes:

none

Summary:

Bug fix release

Features:

• Add support for manually specifying the hostname

Bugs:

• Add dependency for python plugins
• Set default value of chains to be hash
• Sort snmp data and hosts hash

2014-08-25 Release 3.0.0

Backwards-incompatible changes:

• Make sure plugin_conf_dir is not world readable
• Full rewrite of the network plugin
• Rewrite of postgresql module to allow invocation by defined types

Summary:

This release adds multiple new plugins and improvements

Features:

• Varnish plugin improvments
• Add the ability to customize package name.
• Add write_http plugin
• Add statsd plugin
• Add plugin logfile
• Add curl plugin
• Add support for sensors plugin
• Add support for perl plugins
• Allow custom Include directives
• Add valuesabsolute and valuespercentage to df plugin

Bugs:

• Issue 164: syslog plugin needs to be loaded as first plugin
• notify the collectd service when purging plugins
• add collectd-rrdtool package needed for RedHat
• sort python.conf options hash

2014-04-14 Release 2.1.0

Summary:

This release adds Gentoo osfamily support and minor plugin changes

Features:

• adding Gentoo support
• tcpconn plugin: $localports and $remoteports can me left undef if $listening is not set
• unixsock plugin: Implement the "DeleteSocket" option.
• add reportreserved parameter for df plugin

2014-04-14 Release 2.0.1

Summary:

Fix issue with metadata.json preventing Forge uploads

2014-04-14 Release 2.0.0

Summary:

This release adds support for several new plugins and contains some backwards-incompatible code refactors.

Backwards-incompatible changes:

• Storerates=true is now the default for the Graphite plugin
• Deprecate write_network plugin, use network plugin instead
• Make sure plugin configs are not world readable.
• Handle plugin order with collectd::plugin resource type (all collectd plugins config files will be renumbered from 00-$name.conf to 10-$name.conf)

Features:

• New plugins CSV, uptime, users, entropy, varnish, redis, contextswitch, cpu, nfs, vmem, libvirt
• Add socket parameter to mysql plugin
• Add reportbytes to swap plugin
• Add SeparateInstances setting to write_graphite plugin
• Add metadata.json for Forge search support

Bugs:

• Fix port parameter quotes in memcached plugin
• Fix collectd conf dir path parameter assignment
• Fix processes plugin configuration
• Force ReportReserved to true in df plugin

2014-01-18 Release 1.1.0

Summary:

This release adds support for new plugins and fixes multiple bugs in several plugin configurations.

Features:

• Added load plugin
• Added memory plugin
• Added rrdtool plugin
• Added swap plugin
• Initial version of PostgreSQL plugin
• Add protocol paramter to write_graphite plugin
• add tests for network module
• Support pre-4.7 network configs.

Bugs:

• Fix bug that always creates notification in exec on empty params
• fix typo in apache plugin manifest
• Make sure that plugins are always loaded before their configuration
• Add version check around emitting Protocol config
• mysql: use double quotes according to version
• Allow for alphanumeric collectd version numbers
• (gh-85) Fix null versioncmp bug in plugin templates
• (gh-69) Fix package name on RedHat

2013-12-17 Release 1.0.2

Summary:

This release adds the AMQP plugin and a collectd version fact.

Features:

• Add AMQP plugin
• Add class parameter typesdb
• Use collectd::params::root_group instead of fixed group name
• Add collectd version fact

2013-12-04 Release 1.0.1

Summary:

This release introduces Archlinux osfamily support and support for three new plugins ping, rrdcached, and processes.

Features:

• Initial version of rrdcached plugin
• Add configurable processes plugin
• Add quotes for string values in network plugin
• Add ping plugin
• Add support for Archlinux
• Allow to set all write_graphite options.

Bugs:

• Fixed missing double quotes in unixsock plugin template
• Added comma to syntax error in bind.pp

2013-10-20 Release 1.0.0

Summary:

This release breaks some backwards compatibility on some plugins where they improperly used strings instead of booleans parameters. This release also includes osfamily support for SUSE and FreeBSB and support for four new plugins.

Backwards-incompatible changes:

• Plugins that use to accept strings now use booleans for a more consistent interface across the various plugins
• The main collectd config file now only includes *.conf files to allow plugin specific files to be placed in the conf.d directory.
• The mysql plugin now supports multiple databases via the collectd::plugin::mysql::database define. This change breaks backwards compatiblity on the mysql plugin.

Features:

• osfamily support for SUSE
• osfamily support for FreeBSD
• tail plugin
• exec plugin
• python plugin
• write_riemann plugin

2013-09-27 Release 0.1.0

Summary:

Add curl_json and apache plugin

Backwards-incompatible changes:

• The write_network plugin now accepts a hash of servers

Features:

• Add curl_json plugin
• Added collectd package version parameter
• Add apache plugin

0.0.5 - pdxcat/collectd - 2013/09/24

6adca9a add ntpd plugin ab55fb4 Added tcpconns plugin and example for it in README 677ff72 Adding a new generic write_network plugin define 8cdd8b7 Added memcached plugin and example for it in README c3e4a02 Added examples to README for filecount, SNMP and unixsock f798c84 Added support for file count plugin 66f7392 Added support for SNMP and bumped stdlib dependency version to 3.0.0 7118450 Added support for unix socket plugin a062b11 Fixed source URL 1b214a2 Add testing docs to README

0.0.4 - pdxcat/collectd - 2013/08/26

9f3f0f6 Add bind plugin to readme f052087 Add bind plugin fc0c4c1 Add basic rspec-system test 0b2ec92 Fix README formatting issues 71dcad0 Add configurable plugins to the README 72b9f17 Add test for file_line 7eae468 Add buildstatus to the README b2cb208 Add travis.yml file 8cc16a8 Add purge_config enabled test 26683f0 Add spec test for collectd class 3f30650 Add spec helper files 0bee1d7 Add nginx plugin e2d558a Fix network plugin config syntax 79d8a68 Add network plugin c1085d7 Merge pull request #5 from agenticarus/newer-stdlib 88678bf Depend on newer version of stdlib 7dd9aaa added colorz to the README 628ed78 Added configuration for StoreRates and Port.

0.0.3 - pdxcat/collectd - 2013/05/27

f51660f Fixed test for collectd::plugin::irq 3019516 Added default field in selector for making syntax checkers happy. 39859e7 Added stdlib dependency for file_line

0.0.2 - pdxcat/collectd - 2013/05/09

185e16f Modifications for following puppetlabs style guide and add smoke tests for interface, irq and iptables d68275f Added interface, irq and iptables support. Untested though. b8312cc Added use of scope.lookupvar, allow configuration of threads and option to choose between hostname and fqdn

0.0.1 - pdxcat/collectd - 2013/02/06

8c64104 Add interval and timeout parameters e48288d Add redhat support to the collectd module. b6e3649 Add readme, module, and license files to collectd module. fb6b92f Fix bug in collectd::plugin define 4096cca Add purge_config option to collectd class 2a2974c Add purge option to collectd class 8acbef3 Add syslog plugin 137c919 Add ensure option for collectd::plugin 3406430 Fix plugins with wrong metaparams 315af94 Add collectd::plugin define for unconfigured plugins c085ebc Change include plugin file to include conf.d 171bddd Template openvpn plugin and parameterize the class 09c4df5 Add mysql plugin to collectd. 36f3465 Add disk plugin to collectd. 1e27a29 Fix collectd service subscription to conf file. 15f1ea7 Add Solaris collectd parameters c013e73 Add collectd df plugin support 9cac9c4 Add collectd support.