[188348] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: collectd as alternative to RTG for high-resolution polling and
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Phaal)
Wed Mar 16 20:52:49 2016
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 17:52:46 -0700
From: Peter Phaal <peter.phaal@gmail.com>
To: Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@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.
