Re: collectd as alternative to RTG for high-resolution polling and long term storage?

[John Kinsella <jlk () thrashyour com>]

Collectd supports a large number “write” plugins[1] that can write out to various sources. I had been eyeing Grafana 
and OpenTSDB, they’re probably worth a look

John
1: https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Table_of_Plugins

> On Mar 16, 2016, at 12:35 PM, Louis Kowolowski <louisk () cryptomonkeys org> wrote:
>
> On Mar 16, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com> wrote:
> > Would anyone care to share their experience using collectd as an
> > alternative to rtg for high-resolution polling of interface traffic and
> > long term storage?
> >
> > I am investigating the various options for large data set size, lossless
> > long term traffic charting (not RRAs which lose precision over time). One
> > possible use is precision 95th billing.
> >
> > https://collectd.org/
>
>
> Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that collectd uses RRD files for the backend, which you said you don’t want.
>
> You might check out Grafana (http://grafana.org/ <http://grafana.org/>). Its based off graphite and uses something 
> like opentsdb or influxdb for the backend. I think this is probably more what you’re looking for.
>
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