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needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's
done.
+ * Filtering and rewriting values dispatched to collectd can be done by the
+ following plugins:
+
+ - filter_pcre
+ Filter value lists based on Perl-compatible regular expressions.
+
* Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
Used to capture packets by the `dns' plugin.
<http://www.tcpdump.org/>
+ * libpcre (optional)
+ Used by the `filter_pcre' plugin.
+ <http://www.pcre.org/>
+
* libperl (optional)
Obviously used by the `perl' plugin. The library has to be compiled with
ithread support (introduced in Perl 5.6.0).