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@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ Features
       Name server and resolver statistics from the `statistics-channel'
       interface of BIND 9.5, 9,6 and later.
 
+    - cgroups
+      CPU accounting information for process groups under Linux.
+
     - conntrack
       Number of nf_conntrack entries.
 
@@ -83,6 +86,9 @@ Features
     - entropy
       Amount of entropy available to the system.
 
+    - ethstat
+      Network interface card statistics.
+
     - exec
       Values gathered by a custom program or script.
       See collectd-exec(5).
@@ -130,7 +136,11 @@ Features
       technique built into IBM's POWER processors.
 
     - libvirt
-      CPU, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
+      CPU, memory, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
+
+    - lvm
+      Size of “Logical Volumes” (LV) and “Volume Groups” (VG) of Linux'
+      “Logical Volume Manager” (LVM).
 
     - madwifi
       Queries very detailed usage statistics from wireless LAN adapters and
@@ -140,6 +150,10 @@ Features
       Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information,
       using mbmon(1).
 
+    - md
+      Linux software-RAID device information (number of active, failed, spare
+      and missing disks).
+
     - memcachec
       Query and parse data from a memcache daemon (memcached).
 
@@ -151,6 +165,10 @@ Features
       Memory utilization: Memory occupied by running processes, page cache,
       buffer cache and free.
 
+    - mic
+      Collects CPU usage, memory usage, temperatures and power consumption from
+      Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) CPUs.
+
     - modbus
       Reads values from Modbus/TCP enabled devices. Supports reading values
       from multiple "slaves" so gateway devices can be used.
@@ -192,6 +210,9 @@ Features
       Network UPS tools: UPS current, voltage, power, charge, utilisation,
       temperature, etc. See upsd(8).
 
+    - numa
+      Information about Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA).
+
     - olsrd
       Queries routing information from the “Optimized Link State Routing”
       daemon.
@@ -212,6 +233,9 @@ Features
       write your own plugins in Perl and return arbitrary values using this
       API. See collectd-perl(5).
 
+    - pf
+      Query statistics from BSD's packet filter "pf".
+
     - pinba
       Receive and dispatch timing values from Pinba, a profiling extension for
       PHP.
@@ -271,6 +295,10 @@ Features
       Follows (tails) logfiles, parses them by lines and submits matched
       values.
 
+    - tail_csv
+      Follows (tails) files in CSV format, parses each line and submits
+      extracted values.
+
     - tape
       Bytes and operations read and written on tape devices. Solaris only.
 
@@ -358,14 +386,25 @@ Features
       needed. Please read collectd-unixsock(5) for a description on how that's
       done.
 
+    - write_graphite
+      Sends data to Carbon, the storage layer of Graphite using TCP or UDP. It
+      can be configured to avoid logging send errors (especially useful when
+      using UDP).
+
     - write_http
       Sends the values collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST
       requests. The transmitted data is either in a form understood by the
       Exec plugin or formatted in JSON.
 
+    - write_mongodb
+      Sends data to MongoDB, a NoSQL database.
+
     - write_redis
       Sends the values to a Redis key-value database server.
 
+    - write_riemann
+      Sends data to Riemann, a stream processing and monitoring system.
+
   * Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
     plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
 
@@ -445,6 +484,10 @@ Features
 
   * Miscellaneous plugins:
 
+    - aggregation
+      Selects multiple value lists based on patterns or regular expressions
+      and creates new aggregated values lists from those.
+
     - threshold
       Checks values against configured thresholds and creates notifications if
       values are out of bounds. See collectd-threshold(5) for details.