Learn how to send memcached data collected by collectd to VMware Aria Operations for Applications (formerly known as Tanzu Observability by Wavefront).

memcached is a popular memory object cache system. See collectd memcached plugin documentation.

VMware Aria Operations for Applications supports a built-in integration that gets data from memcached using Telegraf. If you want to use collectd instead, follow the instructions on this page.

Installation

  1. On your collectd host, copy the config below into /etc/collectd/managed_config/.
  2. Edit the settings in the file for your memcached server.
  3. Restart collectd.

Example collectd Configuration

<Plugin "memcached">
  Host "127.0.0.1"
  Port "11211"
</Plugin>
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