memcachec plugin¶

See this section in the full configuration reference

The memcachec plugin connects to a memcached server, queries one or more given pages and parses the returned data according to user specification. The matches used are the same as the matches used in the curl and tail plugins.

In order to talk to the memcached server, this plugin uses the libmemcached library. Please note that there is another library with a very similar name, libmemcache (notice the missing `d'), which is not applicable.

Synopsis of the configuration:

<Plugin "memcachec">
  <Page "plugin_instance">
    Server "localhost"
    Key "page_key"
    Plugin "plugin_name"
    <Match>
      Regex "(\\d+) bytes sent"
      DSType CounterAdd
      Type "ipt_octets"
      Instance "type_instance"
    </Match>
  </Page>
</Plugin>

The configuration options are:

<Page Name>

Each Page block defines one page to be queried from the memcached server. The block requires one string argument which is used as plugin instance.

Server Address

Sets the server address to connect to when querying the page. Must be inside a Page block.

Key Key

When connected to the memcached server, asks for the page Key.

Plugin Plugin

Use Plugin as the plugin name when submitting values. Defaults to memcachec.

<Match>

Match blocks define which strings to look for and how matches substrings are interpreted. For a description of match blocks, please see Plugin tail.