collectd/collectd
The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here! observed · 2026-10-10
Health v2 · maintenance only
57/100
- Activity 76
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5389
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 144
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3369 stars · 1251 forks observed · 2026-10-10
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
collectd is a lightweight daemon written in C that periodically collects system and application performance metrics and stores or forwards them via a wide range of plugins. It runs on nearly any POSIX system, including embedded devices, and supports outputs like RRDtool, Graphite, InfluxDB, Kafka, and Prometheus.
Use cases
- collect cpu and memory metrics from linux servers
- monitor system statistics on embedded routers
- gather performance metrics and store them in rrd files
- export system metrics to prometheus or influxdb
- monitor apache, redis, ceph and other application stats
- capacity planning and performance bottleneck analysis
- lightweight metrics agent for openwrt devices
When to choose
- you need a low-overhead, high-resolution metrics collector on unix or embedded systems
- you want a mature daemon with 100+ plugins and many output integrations
- you prefer a push-based metrics agent without a scripting runtime
When to avoid
- you need a full monitoring stack with dashboards and alerting out of the box
- your primary platform is Windows without the commercial SSC Serv
- you want a modern pull-based exporter ecosystem as your main collection model
Facets
service · maturity stable
monitoring analytics logging monitoring self-hosted embedded-systems bsd embedded self-hosted c metrics-collection system-statistics daemon prometheus-exporter rrdtool mqtt snmp graphite influxdb kafka plugins devops linux macos
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/collectd/collectd · fetched 2026-10-10 · b8fbb5c48852
- homepage: http://collectd.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4e8442c2b41d
- site_page: http://collectd.org/documentation · fetched 2026-08-29 · c32229d64efc
- site_page: http://collectd.org/features.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2f0318ed26ae
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| collectd/collectd | main | 57 |
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