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requests. The transmitted data is either in a form understood by the
Exec plugin or formatted in JSON.
+ - write_kafka
+ Sends data to Apache Kafka, a distributed queue.
+
- write_mongodb
Sends data to MongoDB, a NoSQL database.
* A POSIX-threads (pthread) implementation.
Since gathering some statistics is slow (network connections, slow devices,
- etc) the collectd is parallelized. The POSIX threads interface is being
+ etc) collectd is parallelized. The POSIX threads interface is being
used and should be found in various implementations for hopefully all
platforms.
Used by the AMQP plugin for AMQP connections, for example to RabbitMQ.
<http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-c/>
+ * librdkafka (optional; also called “rdkafka”)
+ Used by the Kafka plugin for producing.
+ <https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka>
+
* librouteros (optional)
Used by the `routeros' plugin to connect to a device running `RouterOS'.
<http://verplant.org/librouteros/>