# collectd/collectd

The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!

Repository: https://github.com/collectd/collectd
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/collectd
Homepage: http://collectd.org
Language: C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: metrics-gathering, metrics-gathering-daemon, metrics, metrics-server, prometheus-exporter, cpu-monitoring, memory-utilization, mqtt-client, mqtt-server, amqp-client, snmp, rrdtool, collectd, c, graphite-client, riemann-client, stackdriver-agent, influxdb-client, kafka-client, redis-client
Last push: 2026-05-29T12:58:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 61/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 84, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5341, "days_push": 96, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3363, forks 1249 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:58.151943+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: service
- maturity: stable
- function: monitoring, analytics, logging
- domain: monitoring, self-hosted, embedded-systems
- platform: bsd, embedded, self-hosted, c
- tags: metrics-collection, system-statistics, daemon, prometheus-exporter, rrdtool, mqtt, snmp, graphite, influxdb, kafka, plugins, devops, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- collectd/collectd (main) score 61

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:58.151943+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:40:19.606882+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/collectd/collectd (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:58.151943+00:00, sha b8fbb5c48852)
  - homepage: http://collectd.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:33:45.481510+00:00, sha 4e8442c2b41d)
  - site_page: http://collectd.org/documentation (fetched 2026-08-29T09:33:45.484042+00:00, sha c32229d64efc)
  - site_page: http://collectd.org/features.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:33:45.487763+00:00, sha 2f0318ed26ae)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.