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Plugin Battery

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Florian Forster edited this page Nov 26, 2023 · 1 revision
Name: Battery plugin
Type: read
Callbacks: init, read
Status: supported
FirstVersion: 3.7
Copyright: 2006–2014 Florian octo Forster, 2008 Michał Mirosław, 2014 Andy Parkins
License: GPLv2
Manpage: collectd.conf(5)
See also: List of Plugins

The Battery plugin collects the battery's charge, the drawn current and the battery's voltage. Right now the plugin works with ACPI- and PMU-batteries under Linux and under Mac OS X.

Example graphs

Plugin-battery-charge.png Plugin-battery-current.png Plugin-battery-voltage.png

Dependencies

  • Linux uses one of these sources (first match):
    • sysfs filesystem with /sys/class/power_supply (available since collectd 5.4.2).
    • proc filesystem with /proc/acpi/battery
    • proc filesystem with /proc/pmu.
  • Mac OS X
    • IOKit (Part of Mac OS X.)

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