diff --git a/src/collectd-perl.pod b/src/collectd-perl.pod
index 1bd874359a5bd17fd3d3e3f896b908640edf4bcb..bd99df030acf4c5e82b76526fbcca5634c1be8bd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/collectd-perl.pod
+++ b/src/collectd-perl.pod
=item Notification
A notification is one structure defining the severity, time and message of the
-status message as well as an identification of a data instance:
+status message as well as an identification of a data instance. Also, it
+includes an optional list of user-defined meta information represented as
+(name, value) pairs:
{
severity => NOTIF_FAILURE || NOTIF_WARNING || NOTIF_OKAY,
plugin => 'myplugin',
type => 'mytype',
plugin_instance => '',
- type_instance => ''
+ type_instance => '',
+ meta => [ { name => <name>, value => <value> }, ... ]
}
=back