diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/rrdtool/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/rrdtool/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e5e196efdb0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/rrdtool/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{ fetchurl, stdenv, gettext, perl, pkgconfig, libxml2, pango, cairo }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "rrdtool-1.3.6";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3.6.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "e958760cb0d182c53a878cb2ba5c290c252c2c506082c988e5dd3f3301b895a2";
+  };
+  buildInputs = [ gettext perl pkgconfig libxml2 pango cairo ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/;
+    description = "High performance logging in Round Robin Databases";
+    license = "GPL";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 5a786bead9ab..35fafbae2d15 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1179,6 +1179,11 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv cpio zlib bzip2 file sqlite beecrypt neon elfutils;
   };
 
+  rrdtool = import ../tools/misc/rrdtool {
+    inherit stdenv fetchurl gettext perl pkgconfig libxml2 cairo;
+    inherit (gtkLibs) pango;
+  };
+
   rtorrent = import ../tools/networking/p2p/rtorrent {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv libtorrent ncurses pkgconfig libsigcxx curl zlib openssl;
   };