=head2 Plugin C<perl>
-=over 4
-
-=item B<LoadPlugin> I<Plugin>
-
-Loads the Perl plugin I<Plugin>. This does basically the same as B<use> would
-do in a Perl program.
-
-=item B<BaseName> I<Name>
-
-Prepends I<Name>B<::> to all plugin names loaded after this option. This is
-provided for convenience to keep plugin names short.
-
-=item B<IncludeDir> I<Dir>
-
-Adds I<Dir> to the B<@INC> array. This is the same as using the B<-IDir>
-command line option or B<use lib Dir> in the source code.
-
-=back
+This plugin embeds a Perl-interpreter into collectd and provides an interface
+to collectd's plugin system. See L<collectd-perl(5)> for its documentation.
=head2 Plugin C<ping>
L<collectd(1)>,
L<collectd-exec(5)>,
+L<collectd-perl(5)>,
L<collectd-unixsock(5)>,
L<hddtemp(8)>,
L<kstat(3KSTAT)>,