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collectd

No phone app

6.2No. 8 of 33
in Metrics Monitoring Tools
  • Recognised40% of the score20
  • Phone app26% of the score0
  • Documented20% of the score76
  • Free plan14% of the score100
Free plan
Yes
Runs on
Linux, self-hosted, Windows
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Summary

collectd is ranked #8 of 33 in metrics monitoring tools on Samsung Mobile US Press. It runs on Linux, Self-hosted, Windows. There is a free plan.

collectd plans and pricing

All plans
collectd Free System and application metrics collection; stores metrics or makes them available over the network collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026

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Custom metrics
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Data ingestion
multiplecollectd.org
Self-hosted option
Yescollectd.org

Facts

Purpose
collectd is a daemon that periodically collects system and application performance metrics and provides mechanisms to store them in various ways.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026
Metric sources
It gathers metrics from operating systems, applications, logfiles, and external devices.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026
Uses
Collected statistics can be used to monitor systems, find performance bottlenecks, and predict future system load.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026
Performance and portability
The project says collectd is written in C for performance and portability, including use on systems without a scripting language or cron daemon.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026
Plugins
The homepage says the daemon comes with over 100 plugins.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026
Scale
The homepage says collectd includes optimizations and features to handle hundreds of thousands of metrics.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026
Storage and graphs
collectd can write to RRD files but does not generate graphs from them.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026
Monitoring limit
The homepage says its monitoring functionality is limited to simple threshold checking.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026
Download formats
The download page offers source packages as GZip or BZip2 compressed tar archives.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026
Platforms
The download page lists packages or ports for Debian and Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE and SLES, Red Hat and CentOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, OpenWrt, and T2 SDE.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026
Windows
The download page points to SSC Serv, a native Windows application that collects and dispatches performance data using the collectd network protocol.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026
Support
The project directs bug reports to its bug tracker and uses its mailing list for announcements and development discussions.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026
Security contact
The contact page provides [email protected] and GnuPG key 0x0C705A15 for reporting sensitive security issues.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026
Documentation
The project provides manpages, a getting started guide, specialized documentation, and a plugin list in its source README.collectd.org · 4 Oct 2026

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