pboos/collectd-graphite repository overview

⁠collectd-graphite

Basic collectd-based server monitoring. Sends stats to Graphite.

With inspiration from andreasjansson/docker-collectd-write-graphite⁠. But not using python to replace the settings.

⁠Collectd metrics

• CPU used/free/idle/etc
• Free disk (via mounting hosts '/' into container, eg: -v /:/hostfs:ro)
• Disk performance
• Load average
• Memory used/free/etc
• Uptime
• Network interface
• Swap

⁠Environment variables

• HOSTNAME
  • Will be sent to Graphite
  • Required
• GRAPHITE_HOST
  • Graphite IP or hostname
  • Required
• GRAPHITE_PORT
  • Graphite port
  • Optional, defaults to 2003
• GRAPHITE_PREFIX
  • Graphite prefix
  • Optional, defaults to collectd.
• REPORT_BY_CPU
  • Report per-CPU metrics if true, global sum of CPU metrics if false (details: collectd.conf man page⁠)
  • Optional, defaults to false.
• INTERVAL
  • Controls how often registered read functions are called and with that the resolution of the collected data. (details: collectd.conf man page⁠)
  • Optional, defaults to 10.

⁠Example execution

docker run \
 --net=host --privileged \
 -v /:/hostfs:ro \
 -e HOST_NAME=myhost \
 -e GRAPHITE_HOST=your.graphite.com \
 --name collectd pboos/collectd-graphite