[188333] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: collectd as alternative to RTG for high-resolution polling and
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kinsella)
Wed Mar 16 15:48:36 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: John Kinsella <jlk@thrashyour.com>
In-Reply-To: <55C36510-9124-4404-A360-340CB0AE13D3@cryptomonkeys.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:48:30 -0700
To: Louis Kowolowski <louisk@cryptomonkeys.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Collectd supports a large number =E2=80=9Cwrite=E2=80=9D plugins[1] that =
can write out to various sources. I had been eyeing Grafana and =
OpenTSDB, they=E2=80=99re 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@cryptomonkeys.org> wrote:
>=20
> On Mar 16, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>>=20
>> 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?
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> https://collectd.org/
>=20
>=20
> Correct me if I=E2=80=99m wrong, but I believe that collectd uses RRD =
files for the backend, which you said you don=E2=80=99t want.
>=20
> 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=E2=80=99re looking for.
>=20
> --
> Louis Kowolowski =
louisk@cryptomonkeys.org <mailto:louisk@cryptomonkeys.org>
> Cryptomonkeys: =
http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ <http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/>
>=20
> Making life more interesting for people since 1977
>=20
