collectd software package provides statistics collection and monitoring daemon, you can install in your Debian 8 (Jessie) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install collectd
collectd is installed in your system.
Make ensure the collectd package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep collectd *
You will get with collectd package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Debian 8 jessie |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | collectd |
| Version | 5.4.1-6+deb8u1 |
| Description | statistics collection and monitoring daemon |
| Sub Section | utils |