CollectD plugin for top processes statistics

collectd-top is a collectd-python plugin for pushing statistics from the ps utility to collectd.

Installation

Requires collectd-python package. On Centos 7,

$ yum install collectd-python

While this is somewhat environment specific, based on the configuration in 10-top.conf, the module files should be located inside /usr/lib/collectd,

$ cp collectd_top.py /usr/lib/collectd/

The configuration file (10-top.conf) should be either placed in a path that is included within collectd.conf, for e.g. if it there is a line in collectd.conf such as -

Include "/etc/collectd/managed_config/*.conf"

then 10-top.conf should be placed in the managed_config folder.

Use puppet to create module files or manually create one,

$ nano 10-top.conf

LoadPlugin python

<Plugin python>
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/collectd.d"
    Import "cuda_collectd"
</Plugin>