telegraf/docs/EXTERNAL_PLUGINS.md

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### External Plugins
- External plugins can be written in any language (internal Telegraf plugins can only written in Go)
- External plugins can access to libraries not written in Go
- Utilize licensed software that isn't available to the open source community
- Can include large dependencies that would otherwise bloat Telegraf
- [inputs.execd](/plugins/inputs/execd)
- [processors.execd](/plugins/processors/execd)
- [outputs.execd](/plugins/outputs/execd)