KCOLLECTD(1)

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version 0.12.2 · 3 versions
, in debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ KCOLLECTD ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because we're reading the KCollectd User's Manual and it's genuinely a good time 💖 This is the page for kcollectd, section 1 of the manual (that's the "user commands" section, iykyk), and it's about staring at your system's time-series data like it's a lil aquarium 🐠

🌸 NAME 🌸

kcollectd — displays system time-series monitoring information in collectd rrd datacollections 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

kcollectd [KCollectd options] [file]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

kcollectd is a simple application that presents collectd time-series data in a natural way. Like, the way you'd want to look at it, no cap.

Here's the vibe check on the controls:

  • Mousewheel up and down — zooms in and out, respectively 🎢
  • Click and drag — moves you around, in the recorded history
  • There's an automatic update-and-follow mode, which presents new data in real time, so you can literally just use kcollectd as a status monitor 👑

Left side of the window

There's a tree that lists all identified collectd data sources 🌳 You can display any such data by dragging it onto the desired graph in the right hand panel. Drag and drop, slay.

Right side of the window

Various data sources are shown in graphs 📈 You can move the graph to the left or right with the mouse, and zoom in or out with the mousewheel or the zoom buttons.

Plots can be created and destroyed from the right-click context menu. The context menu also allows for the deletion of unwanted data sources from a given graph. Marie Kondo whomst? We declutter graphs here 🧹

Lower left

The auto-update-button switches kcollectd into the update-and-follow-mode 🔄

In this mode:

  • the right side of the graph is pinned to the current time ⏰
  • new data is presented in real time ✨
  • the plot can still be zoomed with the mouse wheel 🖱️
fr fr this mode is the main character energy of the whole app. status monitor era 💅

🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

  • file — a collectd file to open. just hand it over bestie 📂

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kcollectd (either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run khelpcenter help:/kcollectd) 📚

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • M G Berberich <berberic@fmi.uni-passau.de>
    • KCollectd, this man page.
  • Antonio Russo <aerusso@aerusso.net>
    • KCollectd man page.

KCollectd 0.12.2 · 2024-12-01 — that's the version and the date bestie, go forth and graph 🦋✨ periodt 💅

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