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+# Disclaimer
+
+Every module should be compatible with python2 and python3.
+All third party libraries should be installed system-wide or in `python_modules` directory.
+Module configurations are written in YAML and **pyYAML is required**.
+
+Every configuration file must have one of two formats:
+
+- Configuration for only one job:
+
+```yaml
+update_every : 2 # update frequency
+retries : 1 # how many failures in update() is tolerated
+priority : 20000 # where it is shown on dashboard
+
+other_var1 : bla # variables passed to module
+other_var2 : alb
+```
+
+- Configuration for many jobs (ex. mysql):
+
+```yaml
+# module defaults:
+update_every : 2
+retries : 1
+priority : 20000
+
+local: # job name
+ update_every : 5 # job update frequency
+ other_var1 : some_val # module specific variable
+
+other_job:
+ priority : 5 # job position on dashboard
+ retries : 20 # job retries
+ other_var2 : val # module specific variable
+```
+
+`update_every`, `retries`, and `priority` are always optional.
+
+---
+
+The following python.d modules are supported:
+
+# apache
+
+This module will monitor one or more apache servers depending on configuration.
+
+**Requirements:**
+ * apache with enabled `mod_status`
+
+It produces following charts:
+
+1. **Requests** in requests/s
+ * requests
+
+2. **Connections**
+ * connections
+
+3. **Async Connections**
+ * keepalive
+ * closing
+ * writing
+
+4. **Bandwidth** in kilobytes/s
+ * sent
+
+5. **Workers**
+ * idle
+ * busy
+
+6. **Lifetime Avg. Requests/s** in requests/s
+ * requests_sec
+
+7. **Lifetime Avg. Bandwidth/s** in kilobytes/s
+ * size_sec
+
+8. **Lifetime Avg. Response Size** in bytes/request
+ * size_req
+
+### configuration
+
+Needs only `url` to server's `server-status?auto`
+
+Here is an example for 2 servers:
+
+```yaml
+update_every : 10
+priority : 90100
+
+local:
+ url : 'http://localhost/server-status?auto'
+ retries : 20
+
+remote:
+ url : 'http://www.apache.org/server-status?auto'
+ update_every : 5
+ retries : 4
+```
+
+Without configuration, module attempts to connect to `http://localhost/server-status?auto`
+
+---
+
+# apache_cache
+
+Module monitors apache mod_cache log and produces only one chart:
+
+**cached responses** in percent cached
+ * hit
+ * miss
+ * other
+
+### configuration
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+update_every : 10
+priority : 120000
+retries : 5
+log_path : '/var/log/apache2/cache.log'
+```
+
+If no configuration is given, module will attempt to read log file at `/var/log/apache2/cache.log`
+
+---
+
+# cpufreq
+
+Module shows current cpu frequency by looking at appropriate files in /sys/devices
+
+**Requirement:**
+Processor which presents data scaling frequency data
+
+It produces one chart with multiple lines (one line per core).
+
+### configuration
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+sys_dir: "/sys/devices"
+```
+
+If no configuration is given, module will search for `scaling_cur_freq` files in `/sys/devices` directory.
+Directory is also prefixed with `NETDATA_HOST_PREFIX` if specified.
+
+---
+
+# dovecot
+
+This module provides statistics information from dovecot server.
+Statistics are taken from dovecot socket by executing `EXPORT global` command.
+More information about dovecot stats can be found on [project wiki page.](http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Statistics)
+
+**Requirement:**
+Dovecot unix socket with R/W permissions for user netdata or dovecot with configured TCP/IP socket.
+
+Module gives information with following charts:
+
+1. **logins and sessions**
+ * logins
+ * active sessions
+
+2. **commands** - number of IMAP commands
+ * commands
+
+3. **Faults**
+ * minor
+ * major
+
+4. **Context Switches**
+ * volountary
+ * involountary
+
+5. **disk** in bytes/s
+ * read
+ * write
+
+6. **bytes** in bytes/s
+ * read
+ * write
+
+7. **number of syscalls** in syscalls/s
+ * read
+ * write
+
+8. **lookups** - number of lookups per second
+ * path
+ * attr
+
+9. **hits** - number of cache hits
+ * hits
+
+10. **attempts** - authorization attemts
+ * success
+ * failure
+
+11. **cache** - cached authorization hits
+ * hit
+ * miss
+
+### configuration
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+localtcpip:
+ name : 'local'
+ host : '127.0.0.1'
+ port : 24242
+
+localsocket:
+ name : 'local'
+ socket : '/var/run/dovecot/stats'
+```
+
+If no configuration is given, module will attempt to connect to dovecot using unix socket localized in `/var/run/dovecot/stats`
+
+---
+
+# exim
+
+Simple module executing `exim -bpc` to grab exim queue.
+This command can take a lot of time to finish its execution thus it is not recommended to run it every second.
+
+It produces only one chart:
+
+1. **Exim Queue Emails**
+ * emails
+
+Configuration is not needed.
+
+---
+
+# hddtemp
+
+Module monitors disk temperatures from one or more hddtemp daemons
+
+**Requirement:**
+Running `hddtemp` in daemonized mode with access on tcp port
+
+It produces one chart **Temperature** with dynamic number of dimensions (one per disk)
+
+### configuration
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+update_every: 3
+host: "127.0.0.1"
+port: 7634
+```
+
+If no configuration is given, module will attempt to connect to hddtemp daemon on `127.0.0.1:7634` address
+
+---
+
+# IPFS
+
+Module monitors [IPFS](https://ipfs.io) basic information.
+
+1. **Bandwidth** in kbits/s
+ * in
+ * out
+
+2. **Peers**
+ * peers
+
+### configuration
+
+Only url to IPFS server is needed.
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+localhost:
+ name : 'local'
+ url : 'http://localhost:5001'
+```
+
+---
+
+# memcached
+
+Memcached monitoring module. Data grabbed from [stats interface](https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Commands#stats).
+
+1. **Network** in kilobytes/s
+ * read
+ * written
+
+2. **Connections** per second
+ * current
+ * rejected
+ * total
+
+3. **Items** in cluster
+ * current
+ * total
+
+4. **Evicted and Reclaimed** items
+ * evicted
+ * reclaimed
+
+5. **GET** requests/s
+ * hits
+ * misses
+
+6. **GET rate** rate in requests/s
+ * rate
+
+7. **SET rate** rate in requests/s
+ * rate
+
+8. **DELETE** requests/s
+ * hits
+ * misses
+
+9. **CAS** requests/s
+ * hits
+ * misses
+ * bad value
+
+10. **Increment** requests/s
+ * hits
+ * misses
+
+11. **Decrement** requests/s
+ * hits
+ * misses
+
+12. **Touch** requests/s
+ * hits
+ * misses
+
+13. **Touch rate** rate in requests/s
+ * rate
+
+### configuration
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+localtcpip:
+ name : 'local'
+ host : '127.0.0.1'
+ port : 24242
+```
+
+If no configuration is given, module will attempt to connect to memcached instance on `127.0.0.1:11211` address.
+
+---
+
+# mysql
+
+Module monitors one or more mysql servers
+
+**Requirements:**
+ * python library [MySQLdb](https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python) (faster) or [PyMySQL](https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL) (slower)
+
+It will produce following charts (if data is available):
+
+1. **Bandwidth** in kbps
+ * in
+ * out
+
+2. **Queries** in queries/sec
+ * queries
+ * questions
+ * slow queries
+
+3. **Operations** in operations/sec
+ * opened tables
+ * flush
+ * commit
+ * delete
+ * prepare
+ * read first
+ * read key
+ * read next
+ * read prev
+ * read random
+ * read random next
+ * rollback
+ * save point
+ * update
+ * write
+
+4. **Table Locks** in locks/sec
+ * immediate
+ * waited
+
+5. **Select Issues** in issues/sec
+ * full join
+ * full range join
+ * range
+ * range check
+ * scan
+
+6. **Sort Issues** in issues/sec
+ * merge passes
+ * range
+ * scan
+
+### configuration
+
+You can provide, per server, the following:
+
+1. username which have access to database (deafults to 'root')
+2. password (defaults to none)
+3. mysql my.cnf configuration file
+4. mysql socket (optional)
+5. mysql host (ip or hostname)
+6. mysql port (defaults to 3306)
+
+Here is an example for 3 servers:
+
+```yaml
+update_every : 10
+priority : 90100
+retries : 5
+
+local:
+ 'my.cnf' : '/etc/mysql/my.cnf'
+ priority : 90000
+
+local_2:
+ user : 'root'
+ pass : 'blablablabla'
+ socket : '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'
+ update_every : 1
+
+remote:
+ user : 'admin'
+ pass : 'bla'
+ host : 'example.org'
+ port : 9000
+ retries : 20
+```
+
+If no configuration is given, module will attempt to connect to mysql server via unix socket at `/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock` without password and with username `root`
+
+---
+
+# nginx
+
+This module will monitor one or more nginx servers depending on configuration.
+
+**Requirements:**
+ * nginx with configured `stub_status`
+
+It produces following charts:
+
+1. **Active Connections**
+ * active
+
+2. **Requests** in requests/s
+ * requests
+
+3. **Active Connections by Status**
+ * reading
+ * writing
+ * waiting
+
+4. **Connections Rate** in connections/s
+ * accepts
+ * handled
+
+### configuration
+
+Needs only `url` to server's `stub_status`
+
+Here is an example for local server:
+
+```yaml
+update_every : 10
+priority : 90100
+
+local:
+ url : 'http://localhost/stub_status'
+ retries : 10
+```
+
+Without configuration, module attempts to connect to `http://localhost/stub_status`
+
+---
+
+# nginx_log
+
+Module monitors nginx access log and produces only one chart:
+
+1. **nginx status codes** in requests/s
+ * 2xx
+ * 3xx
+ * 4xx
+ * 5xx
+
+### configuration
+
+Sample for two vhosts:
+
+```yaml
+site_A:
+ path: '/var/log/nginx/access-A.log'
+
+site_B:
+ name: 'local'
+ path: '/var/log/nginx/access-B.log'
+```
+
+When no configuration file is found, module tries to parse `/var/log/nginx/access.log` file.
+
+---
+
+# phpfpm
+
+This module will monitor one or more php-fpm instances depending on configuration.
+
+**Requirements:**
+ * php-fpm with enabled `status` page
+ * access to `status` page via web server
+
+It produces following charts:
+
+1. **Active Connections**
+ * active
+ * maxActive
+ * idle
+
+2. **Requests** in requests/s
+ * requests
+
+3. **Performance**
+ * reached
+ * slow
+
+### configuration
+
+Needs only `url` to server's `status`
+
+Here is an example for local instance:
+
+```yaml
+update_every : 3
+priority : 90100
+
+local:
+ url : 'http://localhost/status'
+ retries : 10
+```
+
+Without configuration, module attempts to connect to `http://localhost/status`
+
+---
+
+# postfix
+
+Simple module executing `postfix -p` to grab postfix queue.
+
+It produces only two charts:
+
+1. **Postfix Queue Emails**
+ * emails
+
+2. **Postfix Queue Emails Size** in KB
+ * size
+
+Configuration is not needed.
+
+---
+
+# redis
+
+Get INFO data from redis instance.
+
+Following charts are drawn:
+
+1. **Operations** per second
+ * operations
+
+2. **Hit rate** in percent
+ * rate
+
+3. **Memory utilization** in kilobytes
+ * total
+ * lua
+
+4. **Database keys**
+ * lines are creates dynamically based on how many databases are there
+
+5. **Clients**
+ * connected
+ * blocked
+
+6. **Slaves**
+ * connected
+
+### configuration
+
+```yaml
+socket:
+ name : 'local'
+ socket : '/var/lib/redis/redis.sock'
+
+localhost:
+ name : 'local'
+ host : 'localhost'
+ port : 6379
+```
+
+When no configuration file is found, module tries to connect to TCP/IP socket: `localhost:6379`.
+
+---
+
+# sensors
+
+System sensors information.
+
+Charts are created dynamically.
+
+### configuration
+
+For detailed configuration information please read [`sensors.conf`](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/blob/master/conf.d/python.d/sensors.conf) file.
+
+---
+
+# squid
+
+This module will monitor one or more squid instances depending on configuration.
+
+It produces following charts:
+
+1. **Client Bandwidth** in kilobits/s
+ * in
+ * out
+ * hits
+
+2. **Client Requests** in requests/s
+ * requests
+ * hits
+ * errors
+
+3. **Server Bandwidth** in kilobits/s
+ * in
+ * out
+
+4. **Server Requests** in requests/s
+ * requests
+ * errors
+
+### configuration
+
+```yaml
+priority : 50000
+
+local:
+ request : 'cache_object://localhost:3128/counters'
+ host : 'localhost'
+ port : 3128
+```
+
+Without any configuration module will try to autodetect where squid presents its `counters` data
+
+---
+
+# tomcat
+
+Present tomcat containers memory utilization.
+
+Charts:
+
+1. **Requests** per second
+ * accesses
+
+2. **Volume** in KB/s
+ * volume
+
+3. **Threads**
+ * current
+ * busy
+
+4. **JVM Free Memory** in MB
+ * jvm
+
+### configuration
+
+```yaml
+localhost:
+ name : 'local'
+ url : 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/manager/status?XML=true'
+ user : 'tomcat_username'
+ pass : 'secret_tomcat_password'
+```
+
+Without configuration, module attempts to connect to `http://localhost:8080/manager/status?XML=true`, without any credentials.
+So it will probably fail.
+
+---