If you use collectd and would like to monitor your Varnish instance(s), this blog post is for you. The new Varnish plugin for collectd is ready, however we would love to get feedback from you. The plugin has already been pushed on production on Camp To Camp and the feedback is really positive so far. However it is always good to get more feedback from different people using collectd and Varnish in different contexts.

How can you help ? Simply run the Varnish plugin on one of your production (or test) server(s) and provide feedback, and ideally some graphs

Installing the Varnish plugin for Collectd is really trivial :

1. run git clone http://github.com/octo/collectd.git

2. compile collectd as you would normally do, do not forget the –enable-varnish flag

3. configure the Varnish plugin in collectd.conf, as explained in the configuration synopsis

4. start collectd

For more information, feel free to read and/or comment the dedicated wiki page .

Feedback can be provided as you wish, either by sending an email to the mailing-list or directly to me <jerome.renard @ gmail.com>

Thanks in advance for your feedback.