On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com> wrote:
Would anyone care to share their experience using collectd as an alternative to rtg for high-resolution polling of interface traffic and long term storage?
I am investigating the various options for large data set size, lossless long term traffic charting (not RRAs which lose precision over time). One possible use is precision 95th billing.
Devices that support sFlow natively implement collectd type functionality for streaming interface counters to a time series database (InfluxDB, Graphite, OpenTSB, etc.) Tools like Grafana can be used to query the database and build dashboards. Host sFlow (http://sflow.net) is very similar to collectd in the metrics it exports, but with the added ability to export flow data from host adapters, bridges, vSwitches, firewalls, routing, VMs, containers etc.