This little script is a simple Zope plugin for Collectd. It enables monitoring collection of zope instance metrics with Collectd. It use the monitoring daemon available in zope with five.z2monitor (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/five.z2monitor) and zc.monitor (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.monitor).

Collectd Configuration example:

<Plugin python>
   ModulePath "/path/to/modules"
   Import "zope"
   <Module zope>
      hostname localhost
      port 8888
      name website-client1
      metric dbsize
      metric conflictcount
  </Module>
</Plugin>

• dbsize: Size of the database
• conflictcount: Number of all conflict errors since startup
• objectcount: Number of object in the database (default=main)
• requestqueue_size: Number of requests waiting in the queue to be handled by zope threads
• load_count: number of load on database (default=main) for the last 5 minutes (default=5)
• store_count: number of store on database (default=main) for the last 5 minutes (default=5)
• connection_count: number of connection on database (default=main) for the last 5 minutes (default=5)
• uptime: uptime of the zope instance in seconds

For Zope 2, you will need the following packages:

• five.z2monitor (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/five.z2monitor)
• Products.ZNagios (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.ZNagios)
• zc.z3monitor (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.z3monitor)