It appears Ubuntu 22.04 LTS still does not include in its packages base one of the best server software to gather metrics from different sources. collectd is a small and fast daemon, which can gather metrics from more than 80 different sources.
In fact, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS does not include it, but the new not LTS Ubuntu 22.10 provides the package in the universe repository – https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/collectd-core. At least, one more file should be installed collectd from https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/collectd. The name of the package is collectd, collectd-core and there are 4 more files of interests – collectd-dev, collectd-utils, libcollectdclient-dev, libcollectdclient1.
Check out the pool folder of an Ubuntu mirror, for example, the mirror – http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/collectd/ and download the latest file.
Now, the latest files are http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/collectd/collectd-core_5.12.0-11_amd64.deb and http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/collectd/collectd_5.12.0-11_amd64.deb. Download them and install the files with apt like usually but pointing to the files:
myuser@srv:~$ curl -LOs http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/collectd/collectd-core_5.12.0-11_amd64.deb myuser@srv:~$ curl -LOs http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/collectd/collectd_5.12.0-11_amd64.deb myuser@srv:~$ ls collectd-core_5.12.0-11_amd64.deb collectd_5.12.0-11_amd64.deb myuser@srv:~$ sudo apt install -y ./collectd_5.12.0-11_amd64.deb ./collectd-core_5.12.0-11_amd64.deb Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'collectd' instead of './collectd_5.12.0-11_amd64.deb' Note, selecting 'collectd-core' instead of './collectd-core_5.12.0-11_amd64.deb' The following additional packages will be installed: alsa-topology-conf alsa-ucm-conf ca-certificates-java default-jre-headless fontconfig fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core java-common libabsl20210324 libasound2 libasound2-data libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libc-ares2 libcairo2 libcups2 libdatrie1 libdbi1 libdeflate0 libesmtp6 libfdt1 libfontconfig1 libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgps28 libgraphite2-3 libgrpc++1 libgrpc10 libharfbuzz0b libhiredis0.14 libi2c0 libjbig0 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 liblcms2-2 liblua5.3-0 libmemcached11 libmicrohttpd12 libmodbus5 libmosquitto1 libmysqlclient21 libnotify4 liboping0 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 libpcsclite1 libpixman-1-0 libpq5 libprotobuf-c1 libprotobuf23 libqpid-proton11 librabbitmq4 librdkafka1 libriemann-client0 librrd8 librte-eal22 librte-ethdev22 librte-kvargs22 librte-mbuf22 librte-mempool22 librte-meter22 librte-net22 librte-ring22 librte-telemetry22 libsensors-config libsensors5 libsnmp-base libsnmp40 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff5 libvirt0 libwebp7 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxencall1 libxendevicemodel1 libxenevtchn1 libxenforeignmemory1 libxengnttab1 libxenhypfs1 libxenmisc4.16 libxenstore4 libxentoolcore1 libxentoollog1 libxrender1 libyajl2 mysql-common openjdk-11-jre-headless rrdtool Suggested packages: collectd-dev librrds-perl liburi-perl libhtml-parser-perl libregexp-common-perl libconfig-general-perl httpd-cgi apache2 apcupsd bind9 ceph chrony default-mysql-server gpsd ipvsadm lm-sensors mbmon memcached nginx notification-daemon openvpn olsrd pdns-server postgresql redis-server slapd varnish zookeeper intel-cmt-cat libbson-1.0-0 libgcrypt20 libjansson4 libmongoc-1.0-0 libopenipmi0 libvarnishapi3 default-jre libasound2-plugins alsa-utils cups-common liblcms2-utils gnome-shell | notification-daemon pcscd snmp-mibs-downloader libnss-mdns fonts-dejavu-extra fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-wqy-microhei | fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-indic Recommended packages: intel-cmt-cat libbson-1.0-0 libgcrypt20 libjansson4 libmongoc-1.0-0 libopenipmi0 libvarnishapi3 The following NEW packages will be installed: alsa-topology-conf alsa-ucm-conf ca-certificates-java collectd collectd-core default-jre-headless fontconfig fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core java-common libabsl20210324 libasound2 libasound2-data libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libc-ares2 libcairo2 libcups2 libdatrie1 libdbi1 libdeflate0 libesmtp6 libfdt1 libfontconfig1 libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgps28 libgraphite2-3 libgrpc++1 libgrpc10 libharfbuzz0b libhiredis0.14 libi2c0 libjbig0 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 liblcms2-2 liblua5.3-0 libmemcached11 libmicrohttpd12 libmodbus5 libmosquitto1 libmysqlclient21 libnotify4 liboping0 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 libpcsclite1 libpixman-1-0 libpq5 libprotobuf-c1 libprotobuf23 libqpid-proton11 librabbitmq4 librdkafka1 libriemann-client0 librrd8 librte-eal22 librte-ethdev22 librte-kvargs22 librte-mbuf22 librte-mempool22 librte-meter22 librte-net22 librte-ring22 librte-telemetry22 libsensors-config libsensors5 libsnmp-base libsnmp40 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff5 libvirt0 libwebp7 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxencall1 libxendevicemodel1 libxenevtchn1 libxenforeignmemory1 libxengnttab1 libxenhypfs1 libxenmisc4.16 libxenstore4 libxentoolcore1 libxentoollog1 libxrender1 libyajl2 mysql-common openjdk-11-jre-headless rrdtool 0 upgraded, 95 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 57.3 MB/58.6 MB of archives. After this operation, 235 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 /home/myuser/collectd-core_5.12.0-11_amd64.deb collectd-core amd64 5.12.0-11 [1281 kB] Get:2 /home/myuser/collectd_5.12.0-11_amd64.deb collectd amd64 5.12.0-11 [21.5 kB] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 alsa-topology-conf all 1.2.5.1-2 [15.5 kB] ...... ...... Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d... done. done. ......
To install those 2 packages there are 95 dependencies of 235 MB of additional disk. After successful installation, there are a couple of important folders and the main configuration file is /etc/collectd/collectd.conf. The plugin folder will show, which plugins are available in this installation.
myuser@srv:~$ ls -al /etc/collectd/ total 52 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 19 23:46 . drwxr-xr-x 104 root root 4096 Oct 19 23:46 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36107 Aug 22 15:24 collectd.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 23:46 collectd.conf.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 Aug 22 15:24 collection.conf myuser@srv:~$ ls -al /usr/lib/collectd/ total 4568 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 12288 Oct 19 23:45 . drwxr-xr-x 87 root root 4096 Oct 19 23:46 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27016 Aug 22 15:24 aggregation.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89136 Aug 22 15:24 amqp.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85224 Aug 22 15:24 amqp1.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18744 Aug 22 15:24 apache.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14624 Aug 22 15:24 apcups.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18880 Aug 22 15:24 ascent.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26992 Aug 22 15:24 barometer.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18664 Aug 22 15:24 battery.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35304 Aug 22 15:24 bind.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14640 Aug 22 15:24 buddyinfo.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23024 Aug 22 15:24 capabilities.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31328 Aug 22 15:24 ceph.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18872 Aug 22 15:24 cgroups.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14592 Aug 22 15:24 check_uptime.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18800 Aug 22 15:24 chrony.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31256 Aug 22 15:24 connectivity.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14472 Aug 22 15:24 conntrack.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14504 Aug 22 15:24 contextswitch.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18840 Aug 22 15:24 cpu.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14536 Aug 22 15:24 cpufreq.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14448 Aug 22 15:24 cpusleep.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14664 Aug 22 15:24 csv.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51976 Aug 22 15:24 curl.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31520 Aug 22 15:24 curl_json.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31256 Aug 22 15:24 curl_xml.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35304 Aug 22 15:24 dbi.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23008 Aug 22 15:24 df.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18840 Aug 22 15:24 disk.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27024 Aug 22 15:24 dns.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18752 Aug 22 15:24 dpdk_telemetry.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35328 Aug 22 15:24 dpdkevents.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31384 Aug 22 15:24 dpdkstat.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14608 Aug 22 15:24 drbd.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23000 Aug 22 15:24 email.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14448 Aug 22 15:24 entropy.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14616 Aug 22 15:24 ethstat.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68472 Aug 22 15:24 exec.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14536 Aug 22 15:24 fhcount.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18656 Aug 22 15:24 filecount.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14512 Aug 22 15:24 fscache.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14712 Aug 22 15:24 gps.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 458928 Aug 22 15:24 grpc.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14584 Aug 22 15:24 hugepages.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18776 Aug 22 15:24 infiniband.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35264 Aug 22 15:24 intel_rdt.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14640 Aug 22 15:24 interface.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14496 Aug 22 15:24 ipc.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35536 Aug 22 15:24 ipmi.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18776 Aug 22 15:24 iptables.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14536 Aug 22 15:24 ipvs.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14632 Aug 22 15:24 irq.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51936 Aug 22 15:24 java.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14496 Aug 22 15:24 load.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14648 Aug 22 15:24 log_logstash.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14648 Aug 22 15:24 logfile.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43432 Aug 22 15:24 logparser.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27224 Aug 22 15:24 lua.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31216 Aug 22 15:24 madwifi.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14264 Aug 22 15:24 match_empty_counter.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14448 Aug 22 15:24 match_hashed.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14560 Aug 22 15:24 match_regex.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14456 Aug 22 15:24 match_timediff.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14472 Aug 22 15:24 match_value.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14624 Aug 22 15:24 mbmon.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31560 Aug 22 15:24 mcelog.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14664 Aug 22 15:24 md.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19048 Aug 22 15:24 mdevents.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47768 Aug 22 15:24 memcachec.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22880 Aug 22 15:24 memcached.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14552 Aug 22 15:24 memory.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22912 Aug 22 15:24 modbus.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22992 Aug 22 15:24 mqtt.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14584 Aug 22 15:24 multimeter.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32448 Aug 22 15:24 mysql.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35520 Aug 22 15:24 netlink.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56200 Aug 22 15:24 network.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20096 Aug 22 15:24 nfs.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14672 Aug 22 15:24 nginx.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14592 Aug 22 15:24 notify_desktop.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22992 Aug 22 15:24 notify_email.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14528 Aug 22 15:24 notify_nagios.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22952 Aug 22 15:24 ntpd.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14528 Aug 22 15:24 numa.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18816 Aug 22 15:24 olsrd.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22968 Aug 22 15:24 openldap.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18760 Aug 22 15:24 openvpn.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40144 Aug 22 15:24 ovs_events.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44208 Aug 22 15:24 ovs_stats.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31176 Aug 22 15:24 pcie_errors.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64240 Aug 22 15:24 perl.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27080 Aug 22 15:24 pinba.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23072 Aug 22 15:24 ping.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43672 Aug 22 15:24 postgresql.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31184 Aug 22 15:24 powerdns.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39536 Aug 22 15:24 processes.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31296 Aug 22 15:24 procevent.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14664 Aug 22 15:24 protocols.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91880 Aug 22 15:24 python.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18768 Aug 22 15:24 redis.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31400 Aug 22 15:24 rrdcached.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35704 Aug 22 15:24 rrdtool.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18808 Aug 22 15:24 sensors.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14504 Aug 22 15:24 serial.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31576 Aug 22 15:24 smart.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43520 Aug 22 15:24 snmp.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43784 Aug 22 15:24 snmp_agent.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51960 Aug 22 15:24 statsd.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14584 Aug 22 15:24 swap.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14568 Aug 22 15:24 synproxy.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31320 Aug 22 15:24 sysevent.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14536 Aug 22 15:24 syslog.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18728 Aug 22 15:24 table.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51808 Aug 22 15:24 tail.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18752 Aug 22 15:24 tail_csv.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14504 Aug 22 15:24 target_notification.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18672 Aug 22 15:24 target_replace.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18632 Aug 22 15:24 target_scale.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18664 Aug 22 15:24 target_set.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18544 Aug 22 15:24 target_v5upgrade.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18824 Aug 22 15:24 tcpconns.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18800 Aug 22 15:24 teamspeak2.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14616 Aug 22 15:24 ted.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18752 Aug 22 15:24 thermal.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18784 Aug 22 15:24 threshold.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31168 Aug 22 15:24 turbostat.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14632 Aug 22 15:24 ubi.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64376 Aug 22 15:24 unixsock.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14464 Aug 22 15:24 uptime.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14456 Aug 22 15:24 users.so drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 23:45 utils -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14552 Aug 22 15:24 uuid.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39184 Aug 22 15:24 varnish.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61672 Aug 22 15:24 virt.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14544 Aug 22 15:24 vmem.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14568 Aug 22 15:24 vserver.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14536 Aug 22 15:24 wireless.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27032 Aug 22 15:24 write_graphite.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43664 Aug 22 15:24 write_http.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18816 Aug 22 15:24 write_influxdb_udp.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80832 Aug 22 15:24 write_kafka.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27016 Aug 22 15:24 write_log.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18792 Aug 22 15:24 write_mongodb.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47736 Aug 22 15:24 write_prometheus.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14576 Aug 22 15:24 write_redis.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31232 Aug 22 15:24 write_riemann.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22896 Aug 22 15:24 write_sensu.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47816 Aug 22 15:24 write_stackdriver.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18800 Aug 22 15:24 write_syslog.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18784 Aug 22 15:24 write_tsdb.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14544 Aug 22 15:24 xencpu.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18696 Aug 22 15:24 zfs_arc.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18696 Aug 22 15:24 zookeeper.so
It’s worth mentioning in previous Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, in which the collectd was included, some of the above collectd plugins required additional package installation to be loaded successfully by the collectd daemon.
Installation of collectd in older Ubuntu versions
As mentioned above, under Ubuntu 20.04 LTS the collectd daemon is included in the universal repository and installation is simple as just running the apt:
sudo apt install collectd collectd-core
But, in older versions or in future ones, sometimes getting the packages from older or newer versions of Ubuntu may not be possible because of dependency requirements. so a second option is to check Debian package in the Debian repositories. Ubuntu is based on Debian, to find out the exact version:
myuser@srv:~$ cat /etc/debian_version bookworm/sid
So Debian packages from bookworm should be worth trying them. The Debian information URL looks like https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/collectd.
All packages with collectd in the name for:
- Ubuntu – https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?lang=en&suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=collectd
packages search - Debian – https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=collectd
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