Re: Collectd needs to be updated

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello,

> On 8 Jan 2022, at 11:19, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello development folks,
> 
> by coincidence, I stumbled across Collectd today.
> 
> Currently, we ship version 4.10.9 of it, released 2013-04-08. The latest release, however,
> is 5.12.0 (2020-09-03, as displayed in https://collectd.org/files/), while https://collectd.org/news.shtml
> still mentions 5.8.0 (2017-11-21) as the latest one.
> 
> Either way, we are lacking updates here. :-)

Not really. The format of the RRD databases has been changed in version 5 which is the reason why we are still on version 4.

There are a couple of conversations about this on this list which should point out what work has to be done to migrate. It will be at least:

* Updating collectd
* Export all RRD databases (potentially convert the data) and then create databases of the new format
* Update the code that generates the graphs to reflect the changed format

I always considered this a major task which isn’t worth the work.

-Michael

> Does anyone have some spare time for Collectd left, and is willing to work on this?
> 
> Thanks in advance, and best regards,
> Peter Müller