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The system statistics collection daemon

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

These tarballs hold the collectd sources as published by the collectd developers. These are the supported versions, previous versions will not get updates.

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:

tar xf collectd-.tar.bz2
cd collectd-
./configure
make all install

Git repository

The Git repository, along with issue tracker and Pull Requests, is hosted on GitHub at http://github.com/collectd/collectd/.

git clone git://github.com/collectd/collectd.git

More information is available in the development documentation.

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 :)

  • http://snapshots.tokkee.org/collectd/

Debian / Ubuntu packages

Both, Debian and Ubuntu provide packages for collectd.

apt-get install collectd

Note: The package does not depend on all packages that are required by all of the plugins. The file /usr/share/doc/collectd-core/README.Debian.plugins lists which additional packages are required for each plugin.

Our continuous integration environment also builds Debian and Ubuntu packages if you need more up-to-date versions. Add the following Apt source:

# File /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pkg.ci.collectd.org.list
deb http://pkg.ci.collectd.org/deb ${distribution} ${component}

# Example:
# deb http://pkg.ci.collectd.org/deb trusty collectd-5.6

Where distribution is one of:

  • jessie
  • precise
  • squeeze
  • trusty
  • wheezy
  • xenial

And component is one of:

  • master
  • collectd-5.6
  • collectd-5.5

To verify downloaded packages, you need to add our continous integration PGP key to Apt:

gpg --recv-keys 3994D24FB8543576
gpg --export -a 3994D24FB8543576 | apt-key add -

Fedora

Information about the collectd Fedora package is available at https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/collectd/overview/.

RPM packages

Packages for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) are contained in the server:monitoring project. You can search the openSUSE package repositories for suitable RPM packages.

For Red Hat, CentOS and fedora, there are collectd RPM packages in Dag Wieers’ repository.

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

A FreeBSD port is available (FreshPorts.org page). You can install the collectd (binary) package using:

pkg_add -r collectd

To install the port (source package), use:

cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/collectd
make clean install

Thanks to Matt Peterson for creating this port and Krzysztof Stryjek for maintaining it. 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.

Solaris

collectd is available for Solaris from OpenCSW. Packages are available for Solaris 10/11 on x86 and SPARC. The available packages are:

Use the following command to install the package:

pkgadd -d http://get.opencsw.org/now
/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -i collectd

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.

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

Support for Microsoft Windows is provided by SSC Serv, a native Windows application that can collect and dispatch performance data using the collectd network protocol. More information and a free-of-cost trial is available at https://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.