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Could not find plugin "write_http" in /usr/lib64/collectd

sloshburch
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Following the instructions from http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/AddOns/released/Linux/Configure, I set up my config by uncommenting the LoadPlugin write_http, and creating my Node:

<Plugin write_http>
        <Node "burch">
                URL "https://<myhost>:8088/services/collector/raw?channel=<mytoken>"
                Header "Authorization: Splunk <mytoken>"
                Format "JSON"
                Metrics true
                StoreRates true
                BufferSize 1
        </Node>
</Plugin write_http>

Yet, I see collectd failing with the following in its log:

[2017-08-02 10:36:36] plugin_load: plugin "logfile" successfully loaded.
[2017-08-02 10:36:36] logfile: invalid loglevel [debug] defaulting to 'info'
[2017-08-02 10:36:36] plugin_load: plugin "cpu" successfully loaded.
[2017-08-02 10:36:36] plugin_load: plugin "interface" successfully loaded.
[2017-08-02 10:36:36] plugin_load: plugin "load" successfully loaded.
[2017-08-02 10:36:36] plugin_load: plugin "memory" successfully loaded.
[2017-08-02 10:36:36] plugin_load: Could not find plugin "write_http" in /usr/lib64/collectd
[2017-08-02 10:36:36] There is a `Node' block within the configuration for the write_http plugin. The plugin either only expects "simple" configuration statements or wasn't loaded using `LoadPlugin'. Please check your configuration.

When I check out the /usr/lib64/collectd directory, the plugins seem all there EXCEPT FOR write_http. I see:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27968 May 25 15:11 aggregation.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11000 May 25 15:11 apcups.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12880 May 25 15:11 battery.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13456 May 25 15:11 cgroups.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5848 May 25 15:11 conntrack.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5968 May 25 15:11 contextswitch.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5976 May 25 15:11 cpufreq.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5264 May 25 15:11 cpusleep.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11120 May 25 15:11 cpu.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12512 May 25 15:11 csv.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15272 May 25 15:11 df.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5152 May 25 15:11 entropy.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10936 May 25 15:11 ethstat.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60736 May 25 15:11 exec.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7056 May 25 15:11 fhcount.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11480 May 25 15:11 filecount.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6720 May 25 15:11 fscache.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8848 May 25 15:11 hddtemp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7720 May 25 15:11 interface.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6896 May 25 15:11 ipc.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7360 May 25 15:11 irq.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6784 May 25 15:11 load.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9072 May 25 15:11 logfile.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26200 May 25 15:11 madwifi.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4776 May 25 15:11 match_empty_counter.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6672 May 25 15:11 match_hashed.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9800 May 25 15:11 match_regex.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5744 May 25 15:11 match_timediff.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8048 May 25 15:11 match_value.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8168 May 25 15:11 mbmon.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8328 May 25 15:11 md.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15088 May 25 15:11 memcached.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8104 May 25 15:11 memory.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8472 May 25 15:11 multimeter.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44896 May 25 15:11 network.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13248 May 25 15:11 nfs.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7096 May 25 15:11 notify_nagios.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15536 May 25 15:11 ntpd.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6984 May 25 15:11 numa.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12984 May 25 15:11 olsrd.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13248 May 25 15:11 openvpn.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29760 May 25 15:11 powerdns.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17712 May 25 15:11 processes.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8624 May 25 15:11 protocols.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6720 May 25 15:11 serial.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 41632 May 25 15:11 statsd.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10128 May 25 15:11 swap.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7104 May 25 15:11 syslog.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13648 May 25 15:11 table.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15064 May 25 15:11 tail_csv.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44368 May 25 15:11 tail.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8272 May 25 15:11 target_notification.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11944 May 25 15:11 target_replace.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10992 May 25 15:11 target_scale.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10880 May 25 15:11 target_set.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9728 May 25 15:11 target_v5upgrade.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11984 May 25 15:11 tcpconns.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15160 May 25 15:11 teamspeak2.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8880 May 25 15:11 ted.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8824 May 25 15:11 thermal.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17296 May 25 15:11 threshold.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56688 May 25 15:11 unixsock.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6720 May 25 15:11 uptime.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5080 May 25 15:11 users.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7056 May 25 15:11 uuid.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8400 May 25 15:11 vmem.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9048 May 25 15:11 vserver.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6776 May 25 15:11 wireless.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19272 May 25 15:11 write_graphite.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19192 May 25 15:11 write_log.so

I installed collectd with yum. This is an EC2 instance. Is there another step? Perhaps something obvious I don't know (since collectd is new to me) or something extra required for AWS EC2 instances?

1 Solution

sloshburch
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Appears that with yum, you need to install another component: collectd-write_http.x86_64

So the full install should be: yum -y install collectd collectd-write_http.x86_64

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sloshburch
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Appears that with yum, you need to install another component: collectd-write_http.x86_64

So the full install should be: yum -y install collectd collectd-write_http.x86_64

sloshburch
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

For disk stuff, I also needed collectd-disk.x86_64

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