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-### Streaming Processors
-
-Streaming processors are a new processor type available to you. They are
-particularly useful to implement processor types that use background processes
-or goroutines to process multiple metrics at the same time. Some examples of this
-are the execd processor, which pipes metrics out to an external process over stdin
-and reads them back over stdout, and the reverse_dns processor, which does reverse
-dns lookups on IP addresses in fields. While both of these come with a speed cost,
-it would be significantly worse if you had to process one metric completely from
-start to finish before handling the next metric, and thus they benefit
-significantly from a streaming-pipe approach.
-
-Some differences from classic Processors:
-
-* Streaming processors must conform to the [telegraf.StreamingProcessor][] interface.
-* Processors should call `processors.AddStreaming` in their `init` function to register
-  themselves.  See below for a quick example.
-
-### Streaming Processor Example
-
-```go
-package printer
-
-// printer.go
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-
-	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
-	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/processors"
-)
-
-type Printer struct {
-}
-
-var sampleConfig = `
-`
-
-func (p *Printer) SampleConfig() string {
-	return sampleConfig
-}
-
-func (p *Printer) Description() string {
-	return "Print all metrics that pass through this filter."
-}
-
-func (p *Printer) Init() error {
-	return nil
-}
-
-func (p *Printer) Start(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
-}
-
-func (p *Printer) Add(metric telegraf.Metric, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
-	// print!
-	fmt.Println(metric.String())
-
-	// pass the metric downstream, or metric.Drop() it.
-	// Metric will be dropped if this function returns an error.
-	acc.AddMetric(metric)
-
-	return nil
-}
-
-func (p *Printer) Stop() error {
-}
-
-func init() {
-	processors.AddStreaming("printer", func() telegraf.StreamingProcessor {
-		return &Printer{}
-	})
-}
-```
-
 [SampleConfig]: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/wiki/SampleConfig
 [CodeStyle]: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/wiki/CodeStyle
 [telegraf.Processor]: https://godoc.org/github.com/influxdata/telegraf#Processor
-[telegraf.StreamingProcessor]: https://godoc.org/github.com/influxdata/telegraf#StreamingProcessor