COLLECTDMON(1) collectd COLLECTDMON(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

collectdmon - Monitoring daemon for collectd

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

collectdmon *\[options]* \[-- *collectd options*]

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

collectdmon is a small "wrapper" daemon which starts and monitors the collectd daemon. If collectd terminates it will automatically be restarted, unless collectdmon was told to shut it down.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

collectdmon supports the following options:

[**-c** *<path>*](#c)

Specify the pathname of the collectd binary. You may either specify an absolute path or simply the name of the binary in which case the **PATH** variable will be searched for it. The default is "**collectd**".

[**-P** *<pid-file>*](#P)

Specify the pid file. The default is "*/var/run/collectdmon.pid*".

[**-h**](#h)

Output usage information and exit.

[*collectd options*](#collectd)

Specify options that are passed on to collectd. If it is not already included, **-f** will be added to these options. See [**collectd**(1)](/man/os/collectd/collectd.1).

# [SIGNALS](#SIGNALS)

**collectdmon** accepts the following signals:

[**SIGINT**, **SIGTERM**](#SIGINT)

These signals cause **collectdmon** to terminate **collectd**, wait for its termination and then shut down.

[**SIGHUP**](#SIGHUP)

This signal causes **collectdmon** to terminate **collectd**, wait for its termination and then restart it.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**collectd**(1)](/man/os/collectd/collectd.1), [**collectd.conf**(5)](/man/os/collectd/collectd.conf.5), <http://collectd.org/>

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

collectd has been written by Florian Forster <octo at collectd.org> and many contributors (see \`AUTHORS').

collectdmon has been written by Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>.

2026-09-25 5.12.0.4.g23d8501

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Document: collectdmon(1) from collectd 5.12.0-r55 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/collectd/collectd.git