"filecount" plugin
The filecount-plugin does something very simple: Count the number of files in a directory and
all its subdirectories. This can be used for a variety of statistics, for example the queue length of an
MTA, the number of
PHP sessions of a web server or simply the number of files
in your home directory.
In addition to the number of files, the plugin also collects the total size of all files.
In come cases collecting all files in a directory is not desired. For instance, the session files of
the CGI::Session Perl module
reside in /tmp. But counting all files in /tmp doesn't tell you anything about the
number of sessions. For this reason the plugin also allows you to specify which files to cound. Files can be
selected by:
- Name (shell wildcards)
- Size
- Modification time
Hopefully we got you interested. If so, you might want to check out
the "Plugin filecount"
section in the collectd.conf(5) manpage.
Dependencies
- None (except UNIX/libc of course ;)