Download
A number of binary packages and source packages are provided.
On this page you can download the collectd sources as GZip or BZip2 compressed
tar archive. Some Linux distributions provide binary packages of
collectd - you can find links to the package description pages where
appropriate. Also on this page are links to numerous user-provided binary packages which are provided
as-is - we object any responsibility for these packages!
The packages available are:
- Source packages
- Debian packages
- RPM packages
- FreeBSD port
- OpenWrt package
- T2 SDE
- Windows client
- Older files
Source packages
- Version 4.5
- Version 4.4
- Version 3.11
How to compile source packages
To compile these source packages you may need to install other libraries first, depending on the features you
want your built to have. A summary at the end of the ./configure run will tell you which libraries
could be found and the appropriate plugins will be enabled automatically based on that. If one or more plugins
that you need are disabled, check the "Prerequisites" section in the README file to find
out which libraries your are missing.
After downloading the package you need to unpack, compile and install the sources:
cd collectd-version
./configure
make all install
Daily snapshots
Sebastian Harl provides daily snapshot tarballs of the development Git repository. Since they're automatically pulled from the repository they may be in any state possible, from including untested new code to being totally broken and not even build at all. Using these tarballs on a production system is highly discouraged. Using these tarballs to test new features and report bugs is very welcome, of course :)
Debian packages
Package for Debian
Since Debian Etch a binary package of collectd is included in the distribution.
This means that you can easily install collectd with the following command.
Thanks to Sebastian Harl for maintaining this package.
Backports for Debian Stable
Because the version shipped with Debian Stable (right now, that's "Etch") is very outdated (they ship
version 3.10) we recommend you install a newer version from backports.org.
The cleanest way to do that is to add backports.org to your
sources.list. They usually have the newest version from "Testing" ported to
"Stable".
RPM packages
Users of fedora can use the official collectd fedora
packages.
Richard W. M. Jones was kind enough to create and publish official fedora packages of collectd.
More information can be found in
fedora's package database.
The following RPM packages have been contributed by other users and are provided as-is.
- collectd-4.3.1-0.centos5.i386.rpm
collectd-apache-4.3.1-0.centos5.i386.rpm
collectd-email-4.3.1-0.centos5.i386.rpm
collectd-mysql-4.3.1-0.centos5.i386.rpm
collectd-nginx-4.3.1-0.centos5.i386.rpm
collectd-sensors-4.3.1-0.centos5.i386.rpm
collectd-snmp-4.3.1-0.centos5.i386.rpm
(CentOS 5, i386 RPM package, thanks to RightScale Inc. for this package) - collectd-4.3.1-0.centos5.x86_64.rpm
collectd-apache-4.3.1-0.centos5.x86_64.rpm
collectd-email-4.3.1-0.centos5.x86_64.rpm
collectd-mysql-4.3.1-0.centos5.x86_64.rpm
collectd-nginx-4.3.1-0.centos5.x86_64.rpm
collectd-sensors-4.3.1-0.centos5.x86_64.rpm
collectd-snmp-4.3.1-0.centos5.x86_64.rpm
(CentOS 5, x86_64 RPM package, thanks to RightScale Inc. for this package) - collectd-4.2.0-1.fc6.i386.rpm
collectd-apache-4.2.0-1.fc6.i386.rpm
collectd-email-4.2.0-1.fc6.i386.rpm
collectd-mysql-4.2.0-1.fc6.i386.rpm
collectd-sensors-4.2.0-1.fc6.i386.rpm
collectd-4.2.0-1.fc6.src.rpm
(Fedora Core 6, i386 RPM package, thanks to Iain Lea for this package) - collectd-3.11.1-0.sl10.1.i586.rpm
collectd-3.11.1-0.sl10.1.src.rpm
collectd-apache-3.11.1-0.sl10.1.i586.rpm
collectd-dns-3.11.1-0.sl10.1.i586.rpm
collectd-mysql-3.11.1-0.sl10.1.i586.rpm
collectd-sensors-3.11.1-0.sl10.1.i586.rpm
(SuSE Linux 10.1, i586 RPM package)
Building an source-RPM package
collectd includes sample .spec files in the
contrib/ directory in the tarball. Unfortunately these files are usually out-of-date, but you can
use them as a starting point for your own packages.
FreeBSD port
There's a FreeBSD port at FreshPorts.org which will be included in the next FreeBSD release. The current release, 6.2, does not include this port. Once the new release is there, you should be able to install collectd with something like:
# make clean install
Thanks to Matt Peterson for creating this port. By the way, in case you were wondering, a "port" is basically the FreeBSD word for a "source package" - you can configure and compile collectd under FreeBSD without sourcecode modifications and without port, too.
OpenWrt package
collectd on the
WRT54G
This client only binary package adds collectd to an
OpenWrt Whiterussian installation. The main plugins (network, cpu, interfaces,
load, ...) are in the main package, the other packages are optional and provide further plugins. Since
many of these packages are untested please report back wether they have been working for you or
not.
- collectd_4.1.0-1_mipsel.ipk
- collectd-csv_4.1.0-1_mipsel.ipk
- collectd-df_4.1.0-1_mipsel.ipk
- collectd-disk_4.1.0-1_mipsel.ipk
- collectd-entropy_4.1.0-1_mipsel.ipk
- collectd-exec_4.1.0-1_mipsel.ipk
- collectd-iptables_4.1.0-1_mipsel.ipk
- collectd-irq_4.1.0-1_mipsel.ipk
- collectd-netlink_4.1.0-1_mipsel.ipk
- collectd-ping_4.1.0-1_mipsel.ipk
- collectd-processes_4.1.0-1_mipsel.ipk
- collectd-swap_4.1.0-1_mipsel.ipk
- collectd-wireless_4.1.0-1_mipsel.ipk
T2 SDE
Users of the T2 SDE can include collectd into their build directly. Information about the collectd T2 package can be found on the T2 web site.
Windows client
Unfortunately, no port of collectd to Microsoft Windows is known. There is,
however, SSC Serv, a native Windows application that can collect and
dispatch performance data using the collectd network protocol. For more information please visit
http://ssc-serv.com/.
Older files
Files of previous versions are still available.
However, please use a recent version if possible. If a bug in collectd prevents
you to upgrade to a new version, by all means, please issue a bugreport.
Bugs are usually only fixed in the two most recent versions. If you ask on the mailing list about such bugs you're likely to get an unamiable answer.
- Older files You have been warned
