collectd-graphite-writer cookbook

Configures the write_graphite collectd plugin.

Website for plugin: https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Write_Graphite

Requirements

Software:

• Collectd >= 5.1

Cookbook Dependencies:

• apt
• collectd
• collectd_plugins

Usage

Include the recipe in your nodes runlist.

Connection settings and options are set via node attributes. See the attributes section for more detail.

Attributes

Plugin write_graphite documentation

Any collectd write_graphite supported option can be set as a node attribute under the graphite[:write_options] hash. The option will be placed into the configuration file as is.

Defaults:

• default[:graphite][:write_options][:host] = "localhost"
• default[:graphite][:write_options][:port] = "2003"
• default[:graphite][:write_options][:EscapeCharacter] = "_"

Recipes

default

Default recipe which enables the write_graphite plugin by calling the collectd_plugin definition inside the collectd cookbook

ubuntu

Helper recipe which adds a PPA that contains a collectd 5.1 package and installs the updated version of collectd.

Author

Author:: Nicholas Downs (nickryand@gmail.com) Copyright:: 2012, Nicholas Downs

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