Description of problem: One of the available plugins in collectd is missing in the currently available rpm package - https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/c/collectd-5.5.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm If you open the collectd plugin documentation you will see that this plugin should be packaged with collectd since version 5.3.0. (https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Table_of_Plugins) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): collectd-5.5.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install collectd 2. Configure it to work with Riemann 3. A message will be available in the logs that the plugin is missing. 4. You won't be able to find write_rieman.so next to the rest of the plugins (/usr/lib64/collectd) or 1. Download the .rpm 2. rpm -q -filesbypkg -p collectd-5.5.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm | grep write_riemann.so Actual results: /usr/lib64/collectd/write_riemann.so is missing Expected results: /usr/lib64/collectd/write_riemann.so is present Additional info:
I just found why it is missing: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/c/collectd-write_riemann-5.5.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm Sorry! :)
Yes, you indeed need to install collectd-write_riemann.