---
name: "cricket"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "cricket"
version: "1.0.5-23"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cricket"
---

# cricket(1)

A program to manage the collection and display of time-series data

## NAME

cricket - A program to manage the collection and display of time-series data

## SYNOPSIS

**cricket-compile**\
 **/usr/share/cricket/collector**\
 **/usr/lib/cgi-bin/cricket/grapher.cgi**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the programs associated with Cricket.

- **cricket-compile**

  The **cricket-compile** program compiles the Cricket config tree (found in */etc/cricket*) into the format read by the collector. It is normally run after editing the files in the config tree. No options are needed.

- **collector**

  The **collector** program reads a Cricket configuration from */etc/cricket*, compiled by the **cricket-compile** command, and collects and stores data according to the information found there. It is normally run periodically from a [**cron**(8)](/cron/8.md) job.

- **grapher.cgi**

  **grapher.cgi** is a CGI program to display the data collected by Cricket in a graphical format. It is usually accessed using a web browser, e.g. using the URL http://localhost/cgi-bin/cricket/grapher.cgi. It will allow you to navigate around all of the targets in the config tree.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the HTML format; see below.

## SEE ALSO

The programs are documented fully by various HTML documents available via the help system, or directly in /usr/share/doc/cricket.\
 [dhelp(1)](/dhelp/1.md), [dwww(1)](/dwww/1.md), [cron(8)](/cron/8.md)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Matt Zimmerman \<mdz@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).