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diff --git a/docs/source/telemetry.md b/docs/source/telemetry.md index 041c032b4..8887b8f1f 100644 --- a/docs/source/telemetry.md +++ b/docs/source/telemetry.md @@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ If you need the custom types that the two plugins define, they are present in the type database for multi-value metrics (see [CollectD protocol support in InfluxDB](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.7/supported_protocols/collectd/)). +## Plugin options +`vpp` and `vpp-hicn` have the same two options: +- `Verbose` enables additional statistics. You can check the sources to have an exact list of available metrics. +- `Tag` tags the data with the given string. Useful for identifying the context in which the data was retrieved in InfluxDB for instance. If the tag value is `None`, no tag is applied. + ### Example: storing statistics from vpp and vpp-hicn We'll use the rrdtool and csv plugins to store statistics from vpp and vpp-hicn. @@ -113,6 +118,16 @@ LoadPlugin vpp_hicn <Plugin rrdtool> DataDir "/var/lib/collectd/rrd" # the folder where statistics are stored in rrd </Plugin> + +<Plugin vpp> + Verbose true + Tag "None" +</Plugin> + +<Plugin vpp_hicn> + Verbose true + Tag "None" +</Plugin> ``` Run vpp and collectd: |