Collectd plugin development status
| Plugin | Status | Description | Comments | OPNFV Release | Openstack Release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hugepages | upstreamed | Plugin provides the free and used hugepage numbers/bytes/percentage | Useful for intelligent workload placement for VMs backed by hugepages | D | P |
| Cache | upstreamed | Plugin provides the last level cache utilitzation and memory bw utilization | Based on Resource Directory Technology | E | P |
| DPDK stats | upstreamed | Plugin provides the extended NIC stats for DPDK interfaces | D | P | |
| DPDK events | upstreamed | Plugin provides the packet processing core status and the link status for DPDK interfaces | E | P | |
| RAS Memory | upstreamed | Plugin uses mcelog client protocol to check for memory Machine Check Exceptions and sends the stats for reported exceptions. | D | P | |
| BIOS | Reworked as a utility, waiting on snmp write plugin to be upstreamed | E | Q | ||
| Open vSwitch Stats | upstreamed | Plugin provides the OVS stats for interfaces. Plugin is DPDK agnostic and uses the OVS DB. | E | P | |
| Open vSwitch Events | upstreamed | Plugin provides the OVS link status for interfaces. Plugin will also report vswitch liveliness. | D | P | |
| SNMP write | https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/2105 reworked - awaiting review | Plugin will act as a SNMP subagent and will map collectd metrics to relavent OIDs. Will only support SNMP: get, getnext and walk. | E | Q | |
| Legacy/IPMI | More analog sensor support: https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/2071 Support for System Event Log: SEL (https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/2091) Reviewed, reworked and awaiting further review | Plugin will report platform thermals, voltages, fanspeed.... | E | Q | |
| RAS other errors | Implementation Parsing and filtering utility for logfile implemented https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/2154 - reviewed, reworked and pending further review | Plugin will parse the mcelog/syslog for exceptions that are not memory exceptions. | E | Q | |
| Libvirt extensions | Upstreamed | Extend the libvirt plugin to include all relavent stats and events that are available for a libvirt Domain | E | Q | |
| Python Notification | https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/2135 Bug uncovered and fix pushed to pull request above | Extend the python language binding to pass the collectd metadata to write/notification plugins. | E | Q | |
| PMU | Fixing of remaining bugs prior to upstreaming | Plugin will retirieve performance monitoring units (PMUs) that allow to count and sample a wide variety of events. | E | Q | |
| PCIe AER | Fixing of remaining bugs prior to upstreaming | Plugin will poll PCI config space for baseline and AER errors. It will also parse syslog for AER events. Any errors to be reported via notifications. | E | Q | |
| VES Collectd Agent update schema | Done | E | |||
| VES Collectd Agent move to a separate process | Will be addressed in coming weeks | E | |||
| OVS events Make the polling option configurable | Implemented | E | |||
| mcelog updates | add a persist option for events. send corrected and uncorrected errors in separate notifications with different severity Pending Manual Test https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/2246 | E | |||
| dpdkstat bugfixing | Enable all ports - default config - Done | E | |||
| Collectd extension | Internal protocol Extension - PUT to send commands to teh daemon New plugin registration function Dynamic Plugin - Load/unload Internal code review completed, manual testing to be scheduled prior to upstreaming
| E | |||
| QAT | Looking to leverage existing PCIe AER plugin to report QAT errors | Error reporting from Accelerator | E | ||
| Collectd RPM build | up for review https://gerrit.opnfv.org/gerrit/#/c/32797/2 | Will provide a base for the Apex installer work | E | ||
| OpenStack Boston Demo | Complete | Noisy Neighbour detection a collaboration with Intel RDT and Vitrage | |||
| Libvirt Plugin bugfixes | In progress | Domain restart causing incorrect CPU utilization Values to be reported inconsistency in memory metrics reported by libvirt and virsh | |||
| DPDK events bugfixes | In progress | Reconnect to DPDK primary wrong plugin config issues respawn secondary after primary restart | |||